Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
All-Purpose Fixed Planting Guide
Almost all seeds or transplants are spaced at multiples of two
or three inches. That is to say plants are spaced at two, three,
four, six, eight, nine, twelve or eighteen inches. This means
that with rare exceptions, spacing can be accommodated
using fixed measurements of two or three inches.
An easy way to accomplish this is to take a piece of board,
mark off two-inch intervals, and drill a long deck screw into
each mark, leaving about an inch and a half protruding.
This board can be used to level the soil in a bed. It can also be
used to tamp down the soil for a firm seed bed. Once the soil
is leveled and tamped down, you can use the board to make
hundreds of perfectly spaced seed holes in a hurry. To use it,
lay it along the flattened soil in your bed, press the heads of
the screws into the soil and wiggle it a bit. Now you have
evenly spaced holes every two inches. If your seeds are
spaced at four inches, just plant in every other hole. If they
are spaced at six inches, then skip two holes after each one
that is planted and so forth. So this board will work for
spacings that are a multiple of two inches.
On the other edge of the board you can mark spacing at three
inches, and this will work for spacings of three, six, nine,
twelve inches and so forth. Using these two edges you can
