HomeGrownVegetables

I picked one of these up at our local feed store the other day and I thought I would share the experience with ya’ll.

Assembly

It was pretty easy to put this together, it involved about 4 bolts with nuts,  a pin and a few wing nuts, I had it together in about ten minutes, and that included finding the tools.

Tools And Seed Plates

Here you can see the tools needed to put the seeder together, 1/2 inch and 7/16 inch wrench and a cresent wrench, thats it, very simple !  The seed plates in the picture are different sizes to plant the different seeds, there are 6 altogether , you can also purchase other sized seed plate to handle any possible seed you could want.

Still In The Box

Here is the box, to give you an idea of the size, 4 cubic ft bag of humus for reference!

Assembling The Seeder

The seeder comes partly assembled in the box, all you have to put on is the rear wheel, the handle and the row spacer, in the photo above I have the wheel on and I’m about to add the handle, you can see that in the left side of the photo.

The handle goes on with 4 nuts and bolts , its that easy , the row marker goes on with a pin and cotter key so it can move freely, very simple design.  Like I said it took maybe ten minutes total.

Complete Earthway Seeder

There is also a black plastic clip that the row marker folds up and tucks out of the way in, it just clips on the the handle , it doesn’t hold the marker very well at all, you may have to rig something if you want it to stay there when your done seeding.

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Well there you have it , in ten minutes a time and back saving device for the serious gardener, next time a review of the seeder in action, and yes it does have some pros and cons, but i’ll let you know about ‘em soon, so stay tuned!

Spring Is Here

Well the last few weeks have been real busy around here, we have had some of the best weather you could ask for!  As you can see  spring has come in Southeast Texas, just look at all the green out there, just a few weeks ago it was dry, brown and really crispy.

During the last weeks we have moved the cows to another pasture, set up some fence and are in the process of building a loading pen.  We also have tilled up a large chunk of the front pasture to plant some purple hull peas, but i’ll keep ya posted on that one!

Veggies

Some of the veggies we had planted in the fall didn’t really do much thanks to our record snow fall over the winter, but now with the balmy temps around here, everything is puttin on the growth!

Swiss Chard

Carrots

The chard and carrots are really moving now, but my favorite , the asparagus is really rolling!!

Asparagus Bed

Asparagus Up Close

If you sit still and watch you can almost see the asparagus grow, they move quick!

More About the Peas!

I tilled up a pretty good plot that we are going to try some purple hull peas in this yea, and if they don’t work out , at least i’ll have a whole lot of green manure to use next year!  So I will keep ya’ll updated on that>

So until next time, grow some food will ya!!??