Sled Makes Perfect Garden Rows
“I always try to work smarter in my garden, not harder,” says Darwin Keiper of Pocono Lake, Penn. “I wanted to make straight, evenly spaced furrows at the correct depth for optimal growth. I looked for anything around my garage that could help. Finally it came to me - my childhood Flexible Flyer. It’s a steerable wooden sled with thin metal runners, and I use them to make the furrows.”
Keiper sets rows of wooden boards down the length of his garden for use as walkways and to suppress weeds, planting into garden beds between the boards.
“I start out by rototilling and raking the planting beds until they’re even,” says Keiper. “Then I place the sled at the far end of the bed, tie a rope to the top of the sled, run the rope to the other end of the bed, and pull the sled toward me. It results in perfectly straight, evenly placed rows.”
To make deeper furrows, Keiper places a 5-gal. bucket with some dirt in it on top of the sled. “The more dirt I add to the bucket, the deeper the furrows. After a little trial and error I was able to get the desired depth for the kind of seed I was planting,” he notes.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Darwin Keiper, 998 Route 940, Pocono Lake, Penn. 18347 (ph 570 972-4597; jakeiper@ptd.net).
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Sled Makes Perfect Garden Rows FARM HOME Miscellaneous “I always try to work smarter in my garden not harder ” says Darwin Keiper of Pocono Lake Penn “I wanted to make straight evenly spaced furrows at the correct depth for optimal growth I looked for anything around my garage that could help Finally it came to me - my childhood Flexible Flyer It’s a steerable wooden sled with thin metal runners and I use them to make the furrows ” Keiper sets rows of wooden boards down the length of his garden for use as walkways and to suppress weeds planting into garden beds between the boards “I start out by rototilling and raking the planting beds until they’re even ” says Keiper “Then I place the sled at the far end of the bed tie a rope to the top of the sled run the rope to the other end of the bed and pull the sled toward me It results in perfectly straight evenly placed rows ” To make deeper furrows Keiper places a 5-gal bucket with some dirt in it on top of the sled “The more dirt I add to the bucket the deeper the furrows After a little trial and error I was able to get the desired depth for the kind of seed I was planting ” he notes Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Darwin Keiper 998 Route 940 Pocono Lake Penn 18347 ph 570 972-4597; jakeiper@ptd net
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