potato and corn planting in PA

larry@stinescorner · May 13, 2012

Some pictures of planting potatoes and sweet corn in pa The potato planter is a JD,and it belongs to my neighbor,so does the corn planter, He bought the corn planter at an auction it was a four row that someone made into a two row, The potato planter has been around longer than he can remember, I was behind the potato planter,raising and lowering the handles and watching that the pieces were dropping out of the hopper properly, At the end of each row we had I had to cover a few seeds to, It is a nice old machine and worked great

The Red · May 13, 2012

Looks like the pidgeons like the corn planter!

larry@stinescorner · May 13, 2012

yes they do,he parks it under the bank barn

The Red · May 13, 2012

My barn has had pidgeons for as long as I can remember. My 1941 Farmall M looks like a demonstrator white model now!

oldironman · May 13, 2012

I wish that I could find a potato planter like that.

gtractorfan · May 13, 2012

What do you do with all your potatoes and (sweet, I presume) corn? It looks like fun to garden on a grand scale, but do you have a market for it all? Ground looks great too!

GordoSD · May 13, 2012

Do you plant all the sweet corn on the same day?

evilboweviel · May 13, 2012

couple of nice Olivers there
Ron

larry@stinescorner · May 13, 2012

no,he didnt plant all the field,but he did plant some yellow called kandy corn,and some silver queen white The potatoes go in his root cellar,my family gets 2 rows ,my good friend chris wants some for his family

Anonymous-0 · May 13, 2012

Larry, looks good! I planted taters, with my hand planter, early March. Didn't see hide nor hair of 'em, till mid April! Ain't had near enough rain, to get most anything up. Taters look good, though, about 18" high, now, with about 85-90% germination.
Planted some peas, this weekend, and tilled with the Acme push tiller. Weren't enough weeds to warrant running the tuffy. Rain predicted for tomorrow afternoon. If we don't get some more rain soon, I'll be forced to cut hay!

770 D gal · May 13, 2012

Best sweet corn I"ve ever enjoyed was "Kandy Corn"!

northvale · May 14, 2012

question: when the potato seed pieces drop down, I assume the eye sides are down, up, sideways, etc. Does it matter? I always hand plant them cut side down. How about a machine?

Anonymous-0 · May 14, 2012

Doesn't matter which way the eyes are pointing, that is an old snipe hunting type joke, to harass newbees with! If a potato stem can't tell which way is up, they would have died out years ago!!!

northvale-PA · May 14, 2012

I always assumed faster up, faster to grow and eat. Yum.

Ken Macfarlane · May 14, 2012

We seem to be accumulating a crop of them now. Best luck we had was leaving boards across all the barn trusses, then leaving a stack of hay the cats could climb to get up there. Cleaned the nests out in a few weeks.

Cat is gone now, pigeons were back in a few days. Damn neighbours feed the things.

4020deereboy · May 14, 2012

Nice equipment looks like its doing a nice job to

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