Planting corn old school

Charlie M · Jun 1, 2017

Maybe something to consider for everyone with fields too wet to plant corn. LOL This little planter used to belong to my grandfather. Don't know how he used it. Its pretty handy for planting sweet corn in my garden. Saves a lot of bending over.

9njunkie · Jun 1, 2017

Wife and I have a pair of them and use them every year. Before we got planters we would do 3 acres pumpkins and another acre sweet corn with them every year.

Johnnys Select seeds sells them brand new and well made ... Also made in USA

tractorguy2 · Jun 1, 2017

That is old school. I was expecting a two row and a model B.

cumminspuller · Jun 2, 2017

tractorguy, that is what I was expecting to see as well. haha

BarnyardEngineering · Jun 2, 2017

Yeah but if it's too wet to plant the seed will rot in the ground before it can germinate.

Mac AR · Jun 2, 2017

I had one like that, but it's disappeared over time. I still have one that has the two handles you push together that get's used every year for filling in skips in beans and corn patches. I don't know about that one, but the one I still have is very hard to get regulated to drop x number of seeds. You can set them to drop 2 and you might get 3 and sometimes 4 but only about every 10th hill do you get 2. But in a garden, what difference does it make? And, they're nice to have since you don't have to bend over to drop your seeds. I have threatened for several years to use mine to check plant a patch of sweet corn, but have never done it. Maybe someday.

Mac

RayP(MI) · Jun 2, 2017

We used to have one like that around here. Think my grand father may have actually used it for fi?ld planting. My dad may have used it for sweet corn. He usually planted sweetcorn with the 2 row planter he used for field corn, planting a section right in the field.

I could use it to replant corn in my garden that came up spotty this year. Alas, it is long gone.

smallercrawler · Jun 2, 2017

Mac, your comment about 4 kernels per hill reminded me of a chant we said as kids hand planting sweet corn many years ago:

One for the worm,
one for the crow,
one to rot,
and one to grow!

Mac AR · Jun 2, 2017

Gosh I like that! Seems like some years that's really the case.

Mac

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