Springtime is coming . . .

Create furrow, walk along drop eyes or set tomatoes. The come back and cover them up. Anyone got plans for a cheap transplanter for planting things like tomatoes?

Go to auctions, they really are a bargain. Remember, with a transplanter, you need at least 3 people to run it... My wife and I can barely keep up with my father in law on the Deere 1050 in creeper gear.

Shep,

Check around and see if you can get one of these old hand setters. I can set alot of tomatoes while someone hooks up an implement. Make a raised row and go to town. Water goes in the big section and you drop a plant in the smaller one. Flip the handle and it opens the mouth and lets the plant stay in the ground. If you can get someone to drop you would be surprised at how fast you can get with one of these. I have never tried to plant potatoes with one but I think I will try it this spring. I usually use a bulb setter for planting the potatoes. just stick it in the raised row lift up throw in a potatoe and knock the dirt back in the hole

On the tobacco farm I grew up on we only used them to set missed plants or to fill in any the holes left when transplants didn't survive the mechanical setter. Hauled one of those many a mile through the fields looking for holes in the row.

I think I'll go drag one out and use it this year. Handy tool that you don't find anymore.