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Name: Bed roller for Market Gardening
Uploaded: 2023-02-15T17:03:44+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Richard Perkins
Description: This is a YouTube demonstration (Richard Perkins, Feb 15, 2023) showing how a bed roller is used for light surface compaction and simultaneous…

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Bed roller for Market Gardening

15 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube demonstration (Richard Perkins, Feb 15, 2023) showing how a bed roller is used for light surface compaction and simultaneous row-marking in market gardening. The roller improves seed/plug contact for tools like a Jang seeder and a paper-pot transplanter; adjustable green bands set row spacing and the roller leaves cross marks for in-row spacing. The speaker mentions using the paper-pot transplanter for leeks and onions and planting carrots and radish in the session.

Questions this video answers

Leeks, onions (transplants with paper-pot transplanter); carrots and radish (to be planted).

Chapters

So I use the bed roller to give a little bit of surface compaction, which is ideal for using a Jang seeder or a paper pot transplanter. And it's also marking rows simultaneously. You can move these green bands. They're just simple, quick connectors, so you can mark different row spacings. But that little bit of surface compaction is ideal. It's going to allow the Jang seeder to get really good contact as well as the paper pot transplanter. And you can also put bricks on top of this. But you can see you can really effectively mark out. And because it leaves these other cross shapes, you can see spacings along the row, which is handy. But because we're doing transplants with the paper pot for the leeks and onions, and we're going to put in carrots and radish today, I wanted to get good surface markings on all these. So we'll run through, do all these.