Seed roller

cassidykk · Jul 30, 2012

Do you feel it is necessary to roll your seed bed after seeding? If so, what do you use, cultipacker or some other device?

koamfps · Jul 30, 2012

It is of the ut-most importance to seat your seed. Cultipackers do a fine job. It's what I use

Avondale · Jul 31, 2012

Good seed to soil contact is important. How you achieve it is less so. I do not have a cultipacker but have used a roller and in isolated plots, used the ATV to pack down.

Deere Dude · Jul 31, 2012

I use a regular roller, just enough to get the seed buried a smidgen. Don't know if that is the right thing to do, but it works for me.

schoolsout · Jul 31, 2012

I don't use a roller. Just lightly disc over seed. Haven't had a problem with sorghum, millet, turnips, rape yet. That said, I'd love to have one just to have one

and I'm sure there is a failure rate higher with my method than doing it the proper way, but it works.

LHS Inc · Sep 13, 2012

I use a 6' crows foot packer because thats all I have. Its always done a fine job. If I had nothing at all I'd get a cultipacker.

Western · Sep 13, 2012

I use a home made drag, made with wired together old tires. I have used 4 gauge cattle panel and that worked to, but I think a cultipacker would be the correct way to go if you doing it for a " high score":laughing:

sweettractors · Sep 13, 2012

Cultipackers

Above is a big selection of cultipackers we have reworked and are ready to go. Ken Sweet

super55 · Sep 13, 2012

you definitely want good seed to soil contact. I don't always cultipack certain things like oats or rye that gets planted a little deeper usually can do ok with planting and getting a hard rain to get the seed to soil contact. On smaller seeds like brassicas or clovers I always cultipack. The seeds that are that small usually only need like a 1/4 planting depth so if you move soil over them it usually gets them too deep. I have had much better success just spreading them on top of the soil and then letting the packer work them in.

Smallplot · Sep 14, 2012

A cultipacker does so much more than just pushing seeds in. One, it firms the seed bed prior to broadcasting small seeds. With firming the seedbed, it will also close up many voids where the small seeds can fall in deeper and then not be able to germinate and reach the surface. Packing the seedbed will also help conserve moisture. The V shaped pattern left by a cultipacker will also keep moisture in the bottoms of the Vs and provide some limited protection against runoff.

radman1420 · Sep 21, 2012

I can tell you being a first time food plot planter that it is very important. I broadcast my lime first then tilled the soil. I then broadcast my plot mix seed. After that I broadcast some triple 13 fertilizer. Evidently the tracter tires R4's made the seed contact good. After a week I went to look at my plot and where the tire tracks were the plot looked great! Everywhere else didnt look so great. Now im on 4 weeks and you can definately see If I would have ran a cultipacker over it my plot would have turned out real nice. Dont get me wrong the other areas are growing but just not as well as where I drove the tractor over the seed. My next plot will be much better now that I have learned my lesson.