Setting your EarthWay Planter - Growing a Vegetable Garden

Setting your EarthWay Planter for the vegetable garden. Visit The Bayou Gardener in Avoyelles Parish Louisiana - Cajun Country at http://www.thebayougardener.com

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• vegetable
• garden
• planting
• planter
• vegetables
• Avoyelles
• Parish
• Louisiana
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[bbob765]

And to think that I spent days getting my planter set using the system and all I had to do was watch this... thanks for posting. Have you found a system for carrots for the earthway so you don't have to come back and thin them??

[webcajun]

@bbob765 ... Carrots, like most small seeds, I hand plant and still have to thin em. I don't know of any planter for the home garden that does well with real small seeds.......Donald

[bbob765]

@webcajun I have a professional push style planter that cost me over $2500 that does real well for carrots and normally everything else, but I tell you, I still dig out my old Earthway every spring for sweet corn, beans, and peas. It just works so nice and easier to push than a 40 pound rig, and I figure I get better results using the system that you show here.

[webcajun]

@bbob765 ... The earthway does a pretty good job with the larger seeds......Donald

[mdcrab68]

have you tried using pelletized seeds in the planter

[webcajun]

@mdcrab68 ...No I haven't but it would only be a matter of using a different plate.......Donald

[mdcrab68]

( 360 degrees divided by the number of holes ) x .10 equals the spacing in inches.

360 / 4 = 90 x.1 = 9.0 inches

[231MasseyFerguson]

@webcajun Thanks for the reply... I have 18 rows of different stuff to plant. 2 of the rows are potatoes. The rest are okra, beans, peas, and sweet corn, with the corn being my main crop... I might just eventually go ahead and buy this thing.

[webcajun]

@231MasseyFerguson ...If you don't have a planter for the tractor and want to spend under $100 the Earthway is a pretty good buy. The rear wheel packs and covers the seed. For a small garden it's not worth the money but if you have lots to plant then yes. It's really good on the larger seeds (okra size and bigger)....Donald

[231MasseyFerguson]

Excellent video... Do you have to come back with the garden rake and cover the seeds after you use this machine? Do you think this planter is worth the money?? I really don't know how it works. I've never seen one before...