Going to Have to Replant Some of the Garden

Good morning to all this fine day! Isn’t the weather turning off so nice now? We hope you guys are doing just great, and welcome back to Coverin’ the Bases! Well, our big garden has come up out of the ground, and I have to tell you, that some are doing real well, but some aren’t, and I’ll be reseeding parts of it today.

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The cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, speckled butter beans, green beans, and eggplants are all doing fine. The fordhook limas are doing well, but are having to be replanted due to skips in regards to the seeder. What happened is that these beans are a little bigger bean, and the dern things were hanging up in the drop tube. This simply meaning the seeds are dropped from the hopper, into a drop tube which spaces your seeds in the row. The drop tube follows the little plow like mount on the seeder. It cuts the furrow, the drop tube drops the seed into the furrow, then the wheel of the seeder covers the seed up. This little seeder works great most of the time, but those dad-gum bigger size fordhooks were literally turning sideways in the drop tube and clogging it up. Thus, no seeds dropping into the furrow. Oh, it’d work for 10-15 feet, then one would clog the tube, and you may have thought you’d seeded another 10-15 feet, only to discover you weren’t dropping any at all. Aggravating yes, but I figured we’d go ahead and use it, then if we had some skips we’d reseed them a little later. More...