transplanting veg plants into stubble by hand

[hollister]

Whilst some knowledgeable people with practical experience on the thread has anyone used this paper pot system. I always transplant parsnip in cardboard tubes and this looks interesting.

Paperpot Equipment - Paperpotco: Paper Pot Transplanters, Microgreen Trays, Jang Seeder.

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Yes, works really well, not a fan of stoney ground. The tooth does a good job of pulling itself in. Can get through a lot of plants quickly. The chains don't decompose quickly though.

We tried parsnips in it last year but they didn't do great, the bed was probably a bit firm and they just made spaghetti roots.

 

[Lowland1]

It’s catching on in the States. A really interesting idea.

 

[renewablejohn]

It’s catching on in the States. A really interesting idea.

Pleased I asked. Also found this so understand it more.

 

[Bogweevil]

I remember this from the 1980s - invented in Japan for sugar beet planting of al things, its time has finally come perhaps.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I remember this from the 1980s - invented in Japan for sugar beet planting of al things, its time has finally come perhaps.

I remember reading about it in a 1974 book mechanising vegetable production, yes Japanese sugar beet company were developing the system. Saw a youtube clip recently transplanting organic sugar beet in France, standard 345 modules though.

In the early 80's there was a system for sowing germinated seed in a suspension, maybe that will come back too.

 

[Bogweevil]

I remember reading about it in a 1974 book mechanising vegetable production, yes Japanese sugar beet company were developing the system. Saw a youtube clip recently transplanting organic sugar beet in France, standard 345 modules though.

In the early 80's there was a system for sowing germinated seed in a suspension, maybe that will come back too.

With few seed dressings available in future I reckon fluid drilling will indeed be worth considering (if a precision fluid drill can be built).

 

[Kidds]

It must be around 50 years ago I was doing fluid drilling as a kid.
Germinate lettuce seedlings, mix with wallpaper paste and squeeze them into the row with an icing bag.
Back then I think you could get wallpaper paste a bit cheaper as it had no fungicide in it, seem to recall it became very difficult to find any without the fungicide already added. The fungicide wasn't good for the seedlings but it was to stop your walls going mouldy.

 

[jessop123]

Plant tape is growing in salads in UK, G's plant a lot of gem using this system I believe.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Use old insect nets on my transplanted brassica to keep vermin such as pigeons off.

But need to get the pre em on & slug pellets, so got a Falkland islands veteren out tonight on sniper duty.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Plant tape is growing in salads in UK, G's plant a lot of gem using this system I believe.

Is that baby leaf or general salads?

 

[Lowland1]

Is that baby leaf or general salads?

I’d think it’s for general salads as leaf you could drill. It looks ideal for narrow rows. We looked at the automatic planters huntapac were selling and they looked very complex and I’d seen a 12 row Ferrari that a dealer/contractor had in Lincolnshire and it was an awful big machine so big in fact no one wanted it on their land.because of the ruts or caused.
In the Salinas valley they still drill a lot of lettuce with Stanhay drills and use labour to thin it so tape may take over from that in close spaced crops.

 

[jessop123]

Is that baby leaf or general salads?

head lettuce. Babyleaf is all drilled

 

[Bogweevil]

Remember trying a auto-planter for early crops of Gem in the 1980s using little rubbery polymer reinforced plugs, the planter was not effective in wet sticky British early spring soils, but the plugs were easy to dib in by hand (at 40,000 plants per acre).