generice Long Handled Bulb Planter Tools and Vegetable Seedling Transplanter

your seedlings need to be a decent size to use this. When done correctly, you can plant in 5-10 seconds.

When I saw this device (Ymachray Long Handled Bulb Planter Tools and Vegetable Seedling Tool Manual Plant Transplanter), I liked the concept and thought my niece might like for planting flower bulbs, but after starting a Victory Garden a few weeks ago, I made truly astonishing discovery, which is that it works for larger vegetable and legume seeds, too. I'm not what one might call a "spring chicken", and it's not so easy for me to bend over or stoop to plant corn seeds. After examining the device, I realized it works for planting larger type garden seeds (corn, bush beans, pole beans, English peas, and similar sized seeds), so I tried it and it's amazing. I planted two, four-by rows at 6" spacing with a walkway between the two rows in about 15 minutes, which in this specific spacing maps to 200 corn seeds per row, since each row is approximately 3 feet by 25 feet. When the rows run east-west, start 6" from the north edge of a row and plant four corn seeds, 6" apart in the north-south direction, and then repeat this every 6" in the east-west direction. At this spacing, it maps to 2.5 standard packs of corn seed for the two rows. The spacing is a bit on the tight side, but with sufficient water and nitrogen-based fertilizer, I think it will work. The instructions on corn seed packs suggest thinning to a 12" by 12" matrix, so that's always an option. The procedure is that you poke a hole with the pointy end of the device, grab a seed out of you pants pocket, drop the seed into the device while the pointy end is open (done by lightly squeezing the hand lever), and then when the seed falls into the hole made with the pointy end, you release the hand lever as you life the device out of the ground, and there you are. After doing this for the two rows, I went over the rows and patted them lightly with a flat shovel to close the holes perfectly. Totally easy and NO BENDING OVER. Two weeks later, the corn plants are about 6" tall and growing nicely. Now I am going to use the device to plant moonflower, zinnia, and sunflower seeds, as well as various types of beans and peas, including English peas. It won't work for carrot and radish seeds, which are too small, but the strategy for carrots and radishes is to sow them by hand n a fanning pattern rather than trying to plant them individually in rows. Radishes grow quickly, and what you have in about a 30 days is a lot of radishes, very closely spaced, which will be the same for carrots, except that carrots have a longer growing cycle. Instead of traditional "thinning", you harvest the larger radishes or carrots, and there you are. Summarizing, this device is AMAZING and makes it possible to plant larger seeds (corn, beans, peas, and so forth) easily without needing to bend over or stoop. The way the device works is very intuitive, and after planting a few seeds you develop a system which is very efficient--planting a seed approximately 1" deep every 10 or so seconds. It's almost too easy, but anything that helps me avoid bending over or stooping is fantastic. The description says this device is for planting flower and onion bulbs, and seedlings, which are larger, but it also works for seeds like corn, beans, peas, and so forth. Poke a hole, open the pointy end, grab a corn seed out of your pocket, drop it into the tube (keeping the pointy end open, and then close the open end by releasing the handle lever as you lift the device out of the ground. 1" is good for corn, but beans might need 1.5". It's flexible and can plant seeds even deeper. I think it will work for okra seeds, as well. For smaller seeds, I either toss them in a fanning motion or let someone younger do the detailed planting. I focus on the larger seeds, and this device is perfect in every respect. The garden soil was tilled with a layer of compost put on top, but I think this will work just as well for non-tilled soil a day or two after it rains when the soil is softer. This is the way I am going to plant moonflower, zinnia, and sunflower seeds. in locations that are not tilled. Truly amazing!

Worked great and fast. Need to properly till up soil first so soil is soft. Then start planting

This product is great for transplants. I really liked it. It makes the job a lot more efficient.

Used 2 to plant 10 acres of seedlings, 8 feet between rows, 6 foot in row spacing. Ground worked ahead fairly well but still somewhat clumpy and mostly dry as we are using drip tape. This worked great, expedited the process immensely!! However, a couple of notes. We stabbed the drip tape often, so have extra repair couplers on hand. Also this would have been a complete fail if my husband hadn’t received a welder for Christmas and some amateur training. The handle mount is thin and broke on both, and one of the bottom flaps broke off too. My husband finally figured out to weld on an L bracket to reinforce the handle, and this was a final success. If welding is on your wheelhouse then this is a smart investment.