Seed Planters for Your Plot
AS MUCH AS I ANTICIPATE working the soil each spring and planting the garden, when it comes time to actually set seed in the ground, I’m glad I now have a collection of sowing tools that makes the work easier and helps save precious seed. My gardens are fairly large, and when it comes to sowing a quarter-acre or more of corn or fodder peas, a heavy-duty walk-behind plate planter fills the bill. When sowing smaller seed in the vegetable garden, we have a couple of light-duty and inexpensive planters to choose from. And for sowing corn, beans, or squash in hills, we have antique and modern versions of the stab-style single-seed planters.
TYPES OF SEED PLANTERS
Sharpened sticks, antler tines, and even flaked rocks were among the earliest sowing tools that were used much like we use a modern dibble (dibber in some references) to open holes in
