A short how-to video transcript in which Brett and Rhett Kerby discuss challenges of planting native grass seed blends. They describe different seed types (bundleflower, buffalo grass, side oats, bluestem), how seed texture (slick vs. fluffy) causes bridging and clogging in broadcast spreaders, and demonstrate that an agitator inside the spreader keeps seed moving and falling through the openings.
Planting. Native seed has its own challenges because of its texture. If you can see here, some of the grass is slick and some of the grass is fluffy. If you notice, here we have bundleflower, which is this small black or small brown seed. The dyed seed is buffalo grass, the green seed. And the other seed sitting here with it is side oats. And also in this blend, we have some bluestem. And all of these things create their own challenges as far as seeding this grass through a drill, because the seed has a tendency to bridge, which means it wants to not flow, and will actually get clogged up in your broadcast spreader. So if you notice inside here, our broadcast spreader has an agitator.
Which allows the seed to continue to mix. This agitator will actually roll around the perimeter of this drum and allow the.
Seed to continue to fall down through the openings in the bottom.
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