Earthway Seeder
This is a picture of the Earthway seeder I use in my garden.
As a rule, I don’t post about specific products, but now I’m going to make an exception. As gardeners we know it can often be difficult to find useful products to help us with our work. Garden centers are great if you are after a shovel or a barbecue, but it can be difficult to find more sophisticated products. This is truly an example of a very useful product.
First the proper seed plate is installed inside the red hopper (barely visible in picture), then you pour in the seeds. The chute at the bottom is adjustable to provide the proper planting depth, the chain just behind it drags behind and covers the seeds. The adjustable arm on the side scratches the ground and marks the next row. The pulley assembly on the front wheel turns the seed plate at the correct speed for the proper seed spacing. It really all works together very well. It’s practical to use even with a small amount of seed in a short row. It is very easy to switch from one seed to the next and changing the seed plate is also very easy.
It comes standard with the most common seed plates, and a set of optional extra plates are available at a very modest price. If you want closer spacing, you can just seed the same row twice. You can increase the spacing by putting a piece of tape on every other hole on the seed plate.
It is very light weight, and setting it up takes less than 5 minutes. A row can be seeded at normal walking speed, or running speed if you are in a hurry. It’s hard to express what a godsend it is for something like carrots, which have such tiny seeds that are so hard to sow by hand. With this seeder you get near perfectly spaced carrot seeds, sown within a few seconds. There is minimal wasted seed and little effort is needed to thin the seedlings.
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I always like really useful pieces of kit and this seems like one – I didn’t realise that it could cope with seed as small as carrot.