Might put me back to mkt gardening again.
Go to Joohnnys Selected Seeds on U tubes, then look for 2 guys giving demonstrations of tools. Look for the 4 hopper seed drill, and see what you think of it. It is fastened on a handle and you pull it.
Next go on U tubes and type in Paper pot transplanters. Look at the single and 2 row versions of them
Tell me what you think. YEP, The drill is pricy. Im going to call Johnnys tomorrow and find out the price of the transplanters. Ill let ya know what they say.
Here is a link to all the videos Johnny's has done, you might have to scroll a bit, but unless you are a commercial green house or farm it looks like it is all a waste of money to me!!
I agree , for a house garden, it would be, BUT, I doubt if id care to plant 4 rows of either lettuce, beets, carrots, radish, each in a 90ft row as is in my mkt garden space. Not only that, You wouldn't be wasting seed of 4 rows of say EACH variety of named vegetables, AND you wouldn't necessarily be having to think the vegetables.
When I call Johnnys, Im going to ask if they have a vid of what a field planted, or row planted with the drill looks like after it came up, as to empty spots.
Brighton did you also look at the transplanter.?
That's what I was saying, is that, IF I had them, I would likely go back to mkt gardening in my 90sq thereabouts mkt garden patch, which is currently in hay grazer grass.
Thats a tall seeder for sure! Youre right that the Hoss seeder is low to the ground. I dont know if it matter much, seems to me that it would only matter if the seed bed wasnt properly tilled fine.....and if it wasnt it would be a bugger to get even a high wheeled seeder to dig a proper furrow to put seed into. Being low to the ground has yet to cause me any angst with the hoss.
One of the problems I have with that Johnny's 4 row seeder is that it looks like a one trick pony. Its only going to be good for a very small amount of plantings. Mainly micro greens and other leafy greens on a fast harvest market garden type of deal. At a maximum 6" row spacing and what looks about a 2" seed spacing....that just too limited for me. I like that my hoss can do anything from corn to pumpkins to onion seed. Any seed spacing and any row width.
I see that I could plant radish, lettuce, carrots, beets, and other stuff with it. Here, I like the wider rows . There easier to water without having water splash around them onto the ground around them. They keep the soil moister underneath the leaves, You don't have to move so much in order to pick a certain amount. Theres less middles to keep clean. I can make the middles wider so that I can turn sideways without kicking out stuff behind me in another row. My left ankle, for whatever reason, when I get down, and stay down more than, say a minute locks up somehow, and until the cords get where there supposed to be with the bones, IT HURTS LIKE HADES, even after I get standing when they usually will get to where there supposed to be.
Well, IF I don't have to get down to plant the small stuff, THEN get down again to thin out the small stuff, that's a BIG bonus to me. I planted radishes this spring, and I thought I was doinb alright scattering them from the pkt, BUT I planted them WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAy to heavy, and all I got for the most part was leaves. I thinned them out, and ate the leaves, and gave them to my boy as his wife likes salads, and in doing son thinned them out a lot, BUT I would have had good size eating radishes WAY before now IF I had sown them right.
Theres no way to avoid having to get down and pick the beans and peas which sell great here, not to mention all the veggies I named above, but IF I can get away with not hav ing to get down when I plant, Im great with that.
That's the one row transplanter. They also have a 2 row. id rather have the 2 row. If I wanted to plant 2 rows of something, I could. IF I only wanted to plant one row, I could do that also.
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