Is this the year you've decided to finally plant that large vegetable garden? Perhaps the sagging economy has spurred you on, or maybe the salmonella scares from store-bought vegetables have made you anxious to grow your own. Remember Mom telling you to "Put that down! You don't know where it's been!" Well, when you grow your own, at least, you'll know exactly "where it's been!" You've set aside a sizable plot and tilled it; you've bought your seed, bursting with hopeful energy; now comes one of the most important steps to growing your vegetables-- the planting. But, gee, if you plant the seeds too close together, or too deeply, or shallowly, you will waste a lot of the money you spent on seeds (so much for the financial incentive,) and you'll have wasted a lot of time and energy with disappointing results. Of course, you can study up on the subjects (more time consumed) and carefully hoe your rows and meticulously hand sow each seed (ouch, there goes the back.) There is a better solution: a garden seeder!
No, we're not talking about hiring a master gardener to come out and plant your vegetable garden for you. A garden seeder is a mechanical garden tool that takes all the guesswork out of planting and saves your back in the process. And once you've obtained your garden seeder, it's available for use year after year. It is really a quite ingenious device. It comes with a variety of plates depending on what vegetable seeds you are planting. Let's say you want to plant corn. Attach the plate designed for corn, load it with corn seed and then push it ahead of you as you walk (comfortably upright) behind it. The garden seeder parts the soil, places the seed at the depth appropriate for that particular seed, covers it with soil, and then automatically repeats the process at the proper intervals as it marks the next row. Amazing! Imagine all your corn plants coming up at the same time. The Earthway Garden Seeder comes with six standard seed plates that allow you to plant seeds for sweet corn, radish, leek, asparagus, spinach, carrot, lettuce, turnip, cabbage, endive, onion, tomato, bean, pea, beet, okra, and Swiss chard. And if that's not enough, you can purchase an additional set of five plates that are designed for planting broccoli, kale, cauliflower, rutabaga, mustard, cucumber, lima beans, popcorn, cabbage, lettuce, and turnips.
Investing in a garden seeder is an investment that will pay off time and again with a more productive garden. And just think of the money you'll save when you don't have to buy more seeds to replace the ones that weren't planted properly (or all that headache and backache medicine.) Now that's the way to plant a real "Victory Garden!"
