Corn planter

grandpa Love · Apr 24, 2021

My dad gave me this planter a couple years ago. Gonna try to plant 20 rows,50' long with it. Had to make a plate to fit indian corn.

GordoSD · Apr 24, 2021

6 inch spacing works well.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 24, 2021

Why are you making a hill to plant the corn in rather than plant the corn in the ground and then hill it up as it grows? That way you could lay a row off with a single shovel plow,drop the grains by hand or use something like a garden way planter and then cover it.

gab · Apr 24, 2021

Here's my planting machine, has about 6 plates, works surprisingly good as long as the dirt doesn't have a lot of lumps.

grandpa Love · Apr 24, 2021

Garden is on a slight slope, we didn't do hills for a couple years and a heavy rain would wash out the rows of seeds. Wish I had run out in the pouring rain this morning and taken a picture, it would be easy to see why.

P I Pete · Apr 24, 2021

Grandpa get some glass gem corn available on the net and seed stores, kernels are pastel colors very nice for decorative corn.

Pete

47fivewindow · Apr 24, 2021

That looks like nothing I have seen. Some more pics would be appreciated. On my small scale garden I drag a 1/2 inch piece of emt pipe down the row and drop the seeds down the pipe. It saves me from bending over.

RBnWA · Apr 24, 2021

Grandpa plant cross ways of the hill. Shouldn't erode as bad. RB

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