0:00Hi guys, Jonathan here with Farmers Friend and I'm at Battlefield Blessings Farm with my dad John. We're going to be showing you guys some tips and tricks,

0:07methods they use for planting plants that are in pots or larger transplants or or or larger soil blocks like 4-in

0:16blocks. So, uh what what types of plants what types of times of year are you doing bigger blocks like this? I mean,

0:25it's pretty much all in the springtime.

0:27You know, it's a way to get a a jump on the season. Yeah. Keep it in the greenhouse longer. Yeah. Exactly. So, we use we do tomatoes, peppers,

0:37eggplant, and cucumbers. I I think those are the only things we do. And And again, that's it's only at the first of

0:45the season, but you know, we that's when we're planting all our our green houses with with peppers and tomatoes. So, we

0:52do hundreds of them. Yeah. So digging a hole for this is a little bit different.

0:57You know, you can't just use dibbler or maybe a little hand tri. We got to dig a bigger hole. So let's go over the different methods and and how you guys

1:05do this. Well, for for the whole history of our farm, we got the idea of the post

1:12hole digger from Elliot Coleman. You know, it makes a nice nice uniform hole,

1:19but you know, it's definitely it takes some work here. You want to Do you remember doing this? Yeah. You need to

1:27tighten up your handles a little bit, it looks like. Yeah. Well, the point is we don't use this anymore. Yeah. because we

1:35this year we came up with what I think is a better way and that is um

1:43using an augur with with a drill and of course you can buy all

1:51kinds of cheap ones on Amazon and I'm not saying they won't work um you know obviously it depends a lot on your soil

2:00type and everything. We got this one for planting a bunch of bulbs this spring. But I went ahead and I did some research and I went with Power Planter,

2:11which is a US familyrun company. I think they're out of Iowa or somewhere in the Midwest.

2:21Uh and and they have a a home gardener line and then they have a commercial line. Okay. And so I paid the extra

2:30money. You know, this is definitely pretty heavy duty. You have It looks like either you can get different sizes

2:38to go on this same shank or are these just like uh shear pins for I think it's it's different adapters. Oh, okay. You know, they they sell a a special drill,

2:51you know, more of an augur kind of drill. Yeah. But this is I'm pretty sure that's the 3-in and this is the 5 in.

2:58Okay. And you know, you just I will say normally we're doing this in the greenhouse and and the the soil in the

3:08greenhouse is much nicer than this, but you really you really need a second

3:15handle on your drill because this thing will will produce a lot of torque and can really and you're doing having your

3:24drill set at the lowest, right? You want it on on one. And you also want the soil

3:31very moist like with the dibbler. Uh, in fact, this is probably not quite moist enough,

3:41but you know, you can augur it out if you want a little bigger hole. See here,

3:46the dirt's falling back in. If it was a little more moist, it wouldn't do that so much. But it definitely

3:57is is an improvement here. You want to try? Hang on tight. Take you for a ride. It really

4:05pulls itself in, too. But yeah, I can see the holes just kind of falling back.

4:10But it's definitely easier than digging the holes with a post pounder. Yeah.

4:16Post digger. It's faster and easier. And you know, even if the the dirt does fall in a little bit, it's just a matter of,

4:26you know, putting it in there and you're good to go. Great. So, that's a a great

4:33timesaving tip. Power Planter is the company. So, go buy a augur from Power

4:40Planter and a good cordless drill with a uh large probably a high amp hour.

4:46You're not going to do this with a small little battery and you have a much easier way of planting your large plant transplants to get that jump on early

4:53spring stuff. Well, thanks for the tips on how to plant larger transplants to get that jump on early spring crops. And

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