0:00In this video, we're going to be talking about the process of direct seating. We have a bed that's prepped and ready to go. So, what's the first step, Dad?

0:08Well, again, once it's prepped, and depending on the finness of the seed,

0:14you may want to do it a little finer than this, but I don't know. This this is plenty good for most everything that

0:23we would want to seed with it. So,

0:29you know, you can theoretically seed by hand. I can't imagine doing that on a market gardening scale, on a home

0:38gardening scale. Yeah, you can use something like the zipper to to

0:46make a shallow furrow. And I will say that um

0:52the the general rule of thumb is that the smaller the seed, the shallower you want to plant it. So, you know,

1:01omething big like corn or beans, you're going to want to go fairly deep. Um something small like arugula or carrots,

1:13you don't need to go that deep. And then the cool thing about this is you can use the other side to cover it up.

1:23And again, you don't want to, you know,

1:25if it's a tiny seed, you don't want to cover it too too deeply. But

1:32seeds want to sprout and germinate. And I think that a lot of people get a

1:40little too um paranoid about the depth and stuff and you know I mean we never

1:48adjust the depth on our seeders and they work. So yeah, so you can do it by hand

1:57and just, you know, gently drop the seeds in, but

2:04it's very hard to get even spacing. You know, either you're going to be too thick and then you have to end up

2:12thinning by hand, which if you have to thin by hand, you've just lost any money you were going to make on that crop. Or

2:21the opposite thing is to seed it too thinly and then you're wasting bed space with with just you know empty space.

2:33You want you want precision precision seating. Yes.

2:37And so there are a number of options as far as precision precision seeders go.

2:44Um there's a four row seedar, there's a six row seedar.

2:49um both Johnny's product both from Johnny's and we've used them both.

2:55But um we are now using the three row Jang, the JP3.

3:03And um my boys say their only regret is that we didn't do this years ago. We we waited too long to spring and get this.

3:15So, my counsel to any of you that are starting out, this is definitely a it's it's a fairly hefty upfront investment,

3:26but it's going to pay for itself quite quickly. Mhm. Um,

3:33we went with the JP3 instead of the JP5.

3:38It's the same frame, but um there are a number of reasons why I went with the JP3. I tried to do my research. You

3:48know, number one, it's it's slightly cheaper. Number two, it's going to be slightly um lighter.

3:57And number three,

4:01when JM's the winter market gardener book came out, um he said he only uses the the three rows for winter growing.

4:13And since that's, you know, um, for us,

4:18winter grow or cool weather growing is more than half the year, it made sense to me to just stick with the three row.

4:27Yeah.

4:28I mean, a couple other things. You're only having to buy three rollers instead of five for all the different spacings.

4:35So, it's cheaper that way.

4:38And what was the other one I was going to say?

4:42Oh, you can you can actually cultivate between the rows with with a small wire weeder or the

4:52narrow colinear hoe. Whereas if you do five rows, which you know is two passes,

4:59so that's 10 rows to the bed, there's really no cultivating at that point. So for those reasons, plus a few others.

5:07Oh, another reason with the JP3 is that you can use the uh the what do they call these?

5:18Disc disc. Disc openersh.

5:21Um you know, honestly, I've never used the other ones, so I can't compare. But

5:28from everything I've read and heard, the disc openers um are nice cuz you never get clogged up

5:39u furrower kind of thing. So you can't use disc openers if you have more than three.

5:48Gotcha. Uh because they're wider. So anyway, that's uh that's the scoop on the JP3.

5:58and why we chose that over the JP5. You know, I'm sure we don't get quite the same level of production in the summertime,

6:10but I question whether it's really that different.

6:14Yeah. Okay. So, for those that may not be super familiar with the Jang, the the real business is down here. you have

6:23the the seed hopper and then inside the the base of the seed hopper here you have your seed roller and as you push

6:31this thing down the the bed um your chain yeah the chain on this side of the

6:38machine that's driven by these front drive wheels is what uh rotates the the

6:45drive shaft here and meters the the seeds in you have a number of different adjustments you have the sprocket

6:53different. You can change different size sprockets to adjust your spacing.

6:56There's sprockets here that get stored here. Yep. And then you have the the seed roller itself that has

7:03to be um specifically sized for the type of the crop that you're planting. And so

7:11you do have to have a lot of different seed rollers, which is why we've developed this little handy product which clamps onto the handle. We have a

7:19model for the multi- row Jang seedar. Um the JP1 single row Jang seedar. And we also have a model that's just

7:27wall-mounted if you want to have a good clean way to store your uh seed rollers in your tool shed. But um this is this

7:36hopper is full of seeds. So we can't take uh the roller out and show that process. But it's a simple process of just opening up the roller here.

7:44You can open that up. You should be able to open that up.

7:47Yeah. So, this this comes off and then exposes your roller. And when

7:56the seeds are out of there, you just pull that pin, pull the shaft out, and then put a different size roller in there. Um, so it's nice having your

8:04rollers out in the field with you and and nicely organized. So, if you do need to change out, you have the three rollers. You can have three rollers for

8:12multiple different sizes here. here. And if you have a bunch of rollers or say it's a JP5 where you need five of each size roller, you can buy a second one of

8:21these uh roller nooks and and place it above here so you have all the capacity you need to keep your rollers with you and keep them organized. So, all right.

8:30Well, let's let's demonstrate the the process of using the the Jang Seeder.

8:36Well, so we're going to take these off just because we're not wanting to seed arugula here. Um,

8:44so yeah. So I mean it's going to work the same way, but the beauty of the Jang is

8:52it's so easy to push and you know the soil doesn't have to be perfect.

9:00You can literally just I know Curtis Stone used to run with it. Um, you get down the other end, turn it back around,

9:12and come back and you're done.

9:22So, it's super fast, super precise.

9:28Um, you know, it's the Cadillac, but again, I would encourage

9:36don't waste time with the what she lesser models.

9:43Yugo, we can go with that cuz I think they don't make those anymore. Yeah,

9:48go don't go with the Yugo. Go with the um Cadillac or I guess this is Korean,

9:55right? So, we should Japanese, I think. say um Hyundai,

10:01I don't know. But yeah, just uh buy the buy the nicer seeder. Um it's kind of

10:08everything the success of your crops um starts, you know, at planting. So get get the planting right and everything else should fall in line a lot easier.

10:19So u not that you have to have this like just starting out. There are other ways like we've demonstrated, but this is going to give you great results. You can

10:28also buy the single row that's significantly uh less expensive. So, you could start with the single row and just you're just taking a lot more passes and then upgrade to a multi-row Jang. Um,

10:38but I'll just say one one to me a key advantage of a multi-row seeder over a single row is that, you know, with the

10:47single row, you're never going to keep your rows perfectly parallel. Mhm.

10:53And so, you know, you're going to have some of this. So, when it comes to cultivating,

10:58it's much harder cultivating after a single-row seeder,

11:04whereas this, you know, even if you vary slightly, all three rows are going to be perfectly together.

11:13Yep. Yep. No, that's definitely a an important factor. So,

11:18so yeah, that's kind of the low down on seating. Obviously after seeding you want to water and keep it moist. I think

11:26we talked earlier in another video about you know using silage tarp or whatever to cover it if you don't have an

11:34abundance of water. Keep it moist until the stuff comes up. Keep it cultivated

11:41and uh you're off to the races. All righty. Hope this video has been helpful. Until next time, happy growing.