If you are putting in large rows of things like corn and beans, they are the cat's meow. My brothers and I used to put in a large garden in short order . I can still picture my oldest brother pushing that seeder along. Sometimes we had less than ideal conditions to work our clay ground and it would have some clods. Since the plates turn via a belt to the wheels...sometimes the wheels would skoot along instead of turning...and of course no seed would drop. When the ground was prepared poorly, I could always tell ...as the spacing on the corn would be erratic due to the wheel skoot. If the ground is in good shape, the wheel will roll just fine, and seeds will drop properly. Since we cultivated with a tractor, we would string a line as a guide for the planter...and also space it properly for the tires on the tractor. I remember one time when my brother got mixed up and didn't stay on the same side of the line...we had alternating wide and narrow rows. It was hard to cultivate that year....we had to use troybuilt only. Didn't have the fertilizer holder...but I always thought that might be a really good thing, especially with planting corn. All this garden talk has me thinking about fresh corn on the cob !!
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