Something to save time, money and your back when planting larger seeds!

Simple Device for helping plant larger seeds at regular intervals.

I love this home made device as it really does help when sowing larger seeds in a furrow. It ensures that the seeds are planted at the recommended spacing and doesn't require any bending down.

Here is a picture of me using the sowing tool last year when we were planting corn.

Very very simple. I made this from some pipe that I had left over from a different project (I think that I got the idea from Pinterest). You simply drop the seed in the longer pipe and use the horizontal piece of pipe to determine the spacing of the seeds with the shorter vertical pipe having an end cap which is placed on top of the previous seed.

What I really like is that none of the pipes are glued in place but are simply (and firmly) pushed together. This means that for different seed types the size of the horizontal pipe can be changed which changes the distance between seeds.

I have used this over several years principally for squash and corn seeds, but it could equally be used for other seeds.

Now if you know how to evenly space out much smaller seeds, such as those for carrots, onions etc please let me know as I hate destroying seedlings when I thin out these seedlings.