A very small seeder that was great for salad greens used to be available. By the time I was ready to buy it, it was no longer available. Johnny’s Seeds made it available this spring and I immediately bought one ($239). There is just one problem with it – getting excess seeds back into a seed packet. It has four little hoppers for the seed, but getting the seed from 4 hoppers to fall back into a seed packet is impossible. I was dumping it upside down into a box and pouring from the box. But I don’t want to be carrying a box around, and the box got wet, and so on. A friend said she pulled her shirt out in front of her and dumped the seeds into the shirt and then funneled them back into the seed packet.
Tony took out his tin snips and a sheet of tin and made this tray with a funnel on the end that we hot glued to the seeder (in the top of the picture).
Here it is in action. When it is upright, the seeds fall out those tubes that are now pointing to the left, into a furrow that the tube makes, into the soil.
