Sowing work always demanded special precision and experience. Previously, manually scattering grain and seeds, sowed whole fields, not to mention small garden plots. Over time, came up with the first manual devices - sieves. Today, you can meet hand drills of various types and purchase such an assistant for yourself at the site.
Description and Purpose
Manual seeder is a mechanical, most often two-wheeled fixture, which has bunkers for seeds or other planting material, a vomer, furrows and sowing machines. The number of bins varies. It is also possible the presence of falling asleep ground parts.
At the dacha, you probably will need a mower, trimmer (gasoline, electric) or manual braid, shears, potato planters, hand cultivators, potato diggers, sprinklers for watering.
It is possible to use different types of machinery for sowing vegetables and seeds, as well as for spreading fertilizers, sand or gravel on the plot.
Did you know? The first planters with one seed tube were used by the Sumerians in the 1500s. BC.
The main types of seeding
Seeding can be done tape, in the nest, the method of dispersion. From this will depend on what kind of device attributed.
Precision seeding
The principle of the manual precision seed drill is simple: embedding planting material follows a clear pattern. For example, by hole.
With the help of precision planters, you can sow many plants: corn, rapeseed, wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, oats, rye, alfalfa, espartset, beans, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, fodder and table beets, carrots, mint, celery, parsley , cabbage, dill.
Not accurate
The scatter apparatus can be attributed to the mechanisms of inaccurate seeding: the seeds are scattered after a certain interval throughout the soil allocated for planting. This manual planter is great for planting garlic.
What to look for when choosing?
The type of device chosen depends on the size of your site, as well as how you will use it.
Did you know? The first planter in Europe was invented by Camillo Torello and patented by the Venetian Senate in 1566.
Purpose and Culture
Conventionally, devices can be divided into three types:
- universal (suitable for planting legumes and cereals, as well as such a manual seeder is useful for planting grass on the lawn);
- special (for planting vegetables, corn, cotton);
- combined (can be used for spreading mineral fertilizers).
Sowing method
According to the method of embedding planting material allocate such seeders:
- ordinary - planting is performed by planting seeds with a continuous tape;
- dotted - seeds are planted at the same distance from each other;
- breeding - planting material is embedded in the pre-marked holes (nests);
- square nesting - Seeds are placed at the corners of the square.
Sowing schemes with:
- a - private;
- b - tape;
- in - breeding;
- g - square-breeding;
- d - dotted.
Coulter type
The type of the opener is determined by the way it enters the ground. There are such coulters:
- acute angle of entry (nalnikovikov, paw) - loosen the soil;
- with blunt (disc, polozovidnye, keeled) - tamp the ground in the furrow;
- with direct entry (tubular tubers) - pushing the soil.
Number of rows
The number of sowing rows varies depending on the model: most often, the devices manufactured today have from one to seven rows. For example, a single-row manual planter is great for planting carrots.
Important! For a small area, a single-row universal device is sufficient.
Seeding type
For sowing of seeds, reel, disc, moth, spoon, brush, rope, inner-rib, cellular seeding apparatus are used. The most common is coil. Drum, chain, centrifugal, star-shaped, auger apparatus are used for planting fertilizers.
Reel Seeding Device:
- box;
- reel with grooves;
- roller;
- bottom.
Manufacturer
All now popular tools - from manufacturers in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Examples of such devices are the products of trademarks like "GROWTH" and "Tornado". Manufacturers of the USA, Germany also produce fixtures, the mechanisms of which are designed to be combined with motor-blocks and tractors.
Important! All hand drills produced are fairly light in weight and do not require a lot of storage space.
How to use the drill correctly
The mechanism of operation of hand drills is very simple: it is necessary to fill the bunkers with sowing material and walk with the device on the beds you have planned. If you have chosen a mechanism without a part of the furrow filling the ground, then it is necessary to prepare a predetermined amount of land for the beds to fall asleep. 
By purchasing such an assistant, you can reduce the time for sowing up to 10 times. The beds will be geometrically smooth, which will add to your site even more well-groomed appearance.
