I'm thinking of purchasing a Planet Jr. seeder to plant sweet corn, green beans, peas, and a variety of greens. My understanding of these is they're fine for the smaller seeds, but I can't find much information on using them for larger seeds.

I emailed Cole, who I guess is now the manufacturer, but they didn't exactly answer my question on what the spacing would be if planting corn. They said as long as the seed falls through the plate it would work, but corn wasn't listed in the manual, so they couldn't tell me the spacing.

Is anyone using one of these to plant corn or beans? If so, which plate do you use, and what's the spacing in the row?

I have an Earthway, but have always gotten erratic placement with both corn and beans, so I thought I might try something else.

Thanks for any help,

Andy

I'll keep my eye out for a decent price on a used Planet Jr, I'd like to find one nearby if possible.

Thanks again to all who responded.

Andy

When I was doing growing on a commercial scale we were worried that the Planet would not work well with non-round seeds so we we bought the optional brush agitator that actually sweeps past the holes. We had very good luck though I will say that for lettuce we bought pelletized seed.

We never used it with corn since we already had a corn planter, but we did fine with green and wax beens (never tried limas).

Best of luck.