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The small size of the seeds causes certain difficulties when planting carrots, there is a risk of uneven consumption of the contents of the bag with a beautiful picture of carrots on the cover. If it was planned to plant this tasty vegetable along the entire length of the prepared bed, then with an uneven planting, the seeds end in exactly half of the planned area. After the growth of uneven seedlings, it is necessary to additionally thin out the thickened planting, while some of the seedlings will simply go to waste. If this is not done, the carrot harvest will not resemble a luxurious beauty from the cover of a seed bag, which still needs to be bought, but will look like ugly, unsightly pods.
What is a small seed seeder for?
To get rid of such difficulties, amateur gardeners have invented a device for planting carrots, with which you can evenly plant small seeds, then carrot sprouts will appear from the ground at the same distance from each other. Planting carrots using a seeder creates excellent conditions for the ripening of the crop, because as they grow, the root crops will increase in size and, when fully ripe, will not interfere with each other. In addition, the uniform planting of seeds with a seeder makes it much easier to grow this tasty vegetable, weed carrots and loosen the soil without the risk of damaging the plant.
The carrot planter greatly simplifies the planting of small vegetable seeds
It is advisable to mulch a bed with grown root crops with grass or compost. You can even slightly huddle the plant and sprinkle the root crop with earth. Such a simple measure will prevent the formation of green tips at the edges of the carrot.
Carrot planting rules
The seeder for carrots makes it possible to sow seeds in pre-prepared shallow grooves, at a uniform distance of 1.5 to 2.0 cm from each other. The recommended distance between rows should be from 15 to 20 cm.For industrial planting, it is better to plant carrots in the form of double rows with a distance between them up to 20 cm and a wide row spacing from 40 to 50 cm.Rows are recommended to be placed perpendicular to the long side of the garden, for convenient subsequent plant care.
Types of carrot seed seeders
The carrot planter is easy to make yourself
An excellent help for gardeners, which greatly facilitates their hard work, will be the use of such a simple device as a manual seeder for carrots and other small seeds. The use of seeders when planting small seeds gives excellent results:
- Uniform and economical planting of planting materials;
- The seeder ensures that the seeds are planted at the same depth;
- Equal distance between future shoots;
- Simplicity and ease of use;
- The ability to assemble a seeder from scrap materials with your own hands.
With the handheld carrot sowing unit, you can sow small seeds of vegetables such as carrots and beets in a short time and over a wide area. After the emergence of seedlings, it will not be necessary to remove thickened excess plants and injure the rest of the seedlings.
If you show a little imagination and take a close look at the various simplest seeders, it is not difficult to make your own device for planting carrots and other crops yourself.
Planting carrot seeds with a manual piston planter
According to the popularity rating, the following seeders can be named, which occupy leading places in the top:
- Manual planter for carrots. With the help of this device, smooth, shallow grooves are created into which any small vegetable seeds can be sown. The device is equipped with a special wheel with spikes or metal blades, which push even identical holes into the soil. The seeder design provides a hopper with a spout and an adjustable valve, which is responsible for supplying seeds from the hopper. The second wheel of a smaller size performs the function of filling seeds with soil and its compaction;
- Syringe. The simplest seeder is a small plastic container with a dispenser at the bottom. When the piston is pressed, a hole opens at the bottom through which small seeds enter the soil. This device can be purchased at almost all gardening stores. Some home craftsmen make a planter with a piston with their own hands. Instead of a purchased piston seeder, many summer residents and gardeners use an ordinary medical syringe. Unfortunately, this alternative type of replacement causes a number of inconveniences: seeds scattering in different directions from the furrow, as well as difficulties in dosing the seed material equally;
- Funnel. The simplest seeder for carrot seeds is a large plastic dispenser with a miniature spout and a funnel-shaped cone with an opening at the bottom, closed by an adjustable diaphragm. Stir the device at a slight angle to the soil and shake gently. The seeds roll down the inclined groove of the seeder and evenly fall into the grooves prepared in advance. With a certain skill, correctly positioned, even grooves are obtained.
In addition to the listed most popular manual seeders for carrots, summer residents and gardeners use other planting methods: paste the seeds with paste on paper, use an egg tray as a template for planting, use special mini-rakes and many other methods and methods.
Seeder planted carrots do not need thinning
Seeder for carrots in the form of a mini tractor
If a summer cottage or a garden plot has a large territory on which it is planned to plant a significant number of vegetable crops, and the owner of the suburban area has "golden hands", then in this case, planting seeds is best done with a homemade device in the form of a self-assembled tractor. At the beginning of the work, sketches and drawings are drawn up with an individual planter design. You will also need the following parts: a metal axle, aluminum tubes, wheels and a piece of sheet metal.
The simplest seeder "tractor"
This minimal set of simple parts allows you to manually create a real mini tractor for planting seeds.
Algorithm of actions:
- The aluminum hollow tubes must be converted into comfortable handles;
- A loading hopper is made of sheet iron in the form of a cone or funnel and is located on the axis at a distance of 1 cm;
- Each cone goes down with a sharp end. At the bottom of the cone there is a hole 0.1 cm wide;
- The central main axle is attached to the wheels, the manufactured seed hoppers are placed on top of the axle with handles;
- You can even install a limiter for marking rows.
A self-made mini-tractor, assembled by hand, is tested and tuned so that the carrot seed falls out evenly and with the same frequency.
The use of such simple technological methods of planting allows you to quickly and efficiently plant large areas of a summer cottage or garden with seeds. In addition, the price of such a seeder will be minimal, since its manufacture is done independently and by hand.
