Hi, guys.
This is Sheriden with Garden Guys and Gal.
I'm here with Cody Zesiger.
He is our agriculture faculty for Davis County, Weber County,
and Morgan County.
He covers a huge amount of turf.
So he's all over.
He's everywhere and nowhere all at the same time, right?
I am, yeah.
And Cody is really into tools to make the garden job easier.
So I thought that we would have him come on Garden Guys and Gal
and show you some of the cool tools that he has--
that he's sourced that will make your life a lot easier.
So what is this one?
So this one has a few names, actually, Sheriden.
Some people will call it a Jang seeder.
Other people will just call it one
of those foreign seeders, a Chinese seeder,
and Asian seeder.
But when I ordered this model, this model is called a JP3.
And J may be for Jang.
But then, three because I've got three rows
that I can plant at once.
Now, we only have one hopper in because that's
all we're doing today.
But this could actually go up to five.
So the JP3 and the JP5 have the same frame.
Awesome.
So and I really like that you could do multiple rows.
This gives you the opportunity to space your rows a little bit
different.
So we can adjust all this stuff.
It does.
So it's really easy to adjust.
I just loosen up a nut--
And slide.
And slide it.
Which is awesome.
And it even has a ruler on the seeder
itself so that you have a built in measurement for your row.
That's great.
And then, we can put in different plates.
And when I say plates, that's underneath the beet seeds.
And it will adjust for different size seeds.
And it's this black piece under there.
So we've got a bigger plate in because we're doing beets
and they're bigger seeds.
But if we were doing carrots or if we were doing penstamens
or we were growing cut flowers, we
would do a much smaller plate.
So you have two different sized plates,
but I'm assuming you can get others.
Yeah, so you can go up to a large bean all the way down
to a tiny seed that's smaller than, let's say, a sesame seed.
So that's pretty small.
But, they also give you the option
to buy a blank plate so you could drill a custom size.
So if you wanted to even do poppies you could.
So it gives you lots of flexibility.
So we're going to actually plant two different ways.
We're going to show you some options here.
And this is going to be kind of like succession planting.
So we'll have plants that are going
in that are a little bit further along versus seeds.
So this is a great way to succession plant.
But let's take this down the row and see how it does.
So let's go for it.
OK, as I seed this row, Sheriden,
there's a few things that I really like about this seeder.
I like these rollers because I get really good seed
to soil contact with the ground as well as it kind of flattens
out where I'm planting.
And I also really like how much control
I have over the number of seeds that go in the ground,
aside from just the time saving aspect of it.
OK, so I really like that Jang seeder.
That is awesome.
That would save me a ton of time in the garden,
and especially a garden this size.
I mean, because if I was planting those beets by hand,
I'd have to come down, furrow out my row, plant all my seeds,
go back and fill in.
And it probably saved me a ton of seed
that I would have dropped or not been exact.
And I know that my spacing is going to be good, too.
I don't have to go back and thin a whole bunch, right?
Your depth as well, right?
Yeah, my depth is perfect, which is great.
So I really like that.
But let's talk about this.
OK, so what we have here is a paper pot transplanter.
Paper pot because we've got these little paper pot trays.
There's a few US retailers that sell these.
This one I bought and the brand is Paper Pot Co,
but I don't think it really matters where you get it.
This design is out of Japan.
And all of your supplies come out of Japan.
And it takes a few little additional pieces of equipment
to be able to use this.
You'll need trays as well as these paper pots.
Paper pot trays.
And a few other items that maybe will get to show people later.
Right, and the nice thing about this
is my plants are already up and coming.
So I could use this next to seeds.
I've got succession going on right here, which
means I'm going to have a crop earlier than the next crop
and it's going to give me more use in a smaller
space in the garden.
You don't necessarily have to use both.
But if you did, that's a great way to do it.
This is our first trial run on this.
This is our first go with this machine.
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Yeah, so we'll see how it goes.
Let's see how it goes.
So the idea is it makes a little furrow
and it pulls-- oh my gosh, it's working.
It's working.
And it's going to pull--
Maybe.
Oh no, OK, so this is a problem.
OK, so we were supposed to give you the unfiltered truth,
but we broke it right away or at least the paper chain.
So we're going to try again.
Take two.
My job is to help it.
Let's see if we really need--
OK, it's going.
How do the plants look?
The plants look great.
It's like kind of backfilling as it goes, which is awesome.
Just make sure that wedon't have--
this works.
This is awesome.
We just had to get used to it.
Do you want me to try to go faster?
Go a little bit faster.
This is definitely not as fast as the Jang seeder.
But according to everything I've read
and some of the company's websites
is that this is at minimum four times faster than transplanting
yourself.
OK, so it is faster.
I'm seeing some of our stuff isn't going quite as
deep as it probably should.
And maybe that's just we're a little uneven.
Yeah, so our ground's a little uneven.
And we probably could have spent some time
adjusting the machine itself.
It is adjustable to where you can get your depth
to change a little bit.
And you can get your hills to be a little bit more aggressive
that close your row back up, which it looks like that
might be one of our problems.
In a few of these spots where it's a little bit harder,
maybe we're just not aggressive.
Right, but this is working for the most part.
I'm really liking this.
If I could drive straighter, the row would look a lot nicer.
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So there we go.
OK, so they both work out pretty well.
I think this one has a little bit of things that we need to--
just things that we need to adjust and learn
a little bit more, right?
But I think, overall, it works really well.
I'm going to go back and just kind of fix and fluff
and do what I need to do.
But tell me about cost.
OK, so costs.
If you bought the JP3 from a US retailer online,
you're expecting to pay from a little over $1,000
to about a little over $1,500.
So that one is expensive.
I bought this directly from the factory in China.
I wanted to trial that out and see if it worked.
It was about $300 to buy with my extra rollers.
And then, with shipping it ended up being $410.
OK, so that's not bad when you do it that way.
This one.
Yeah, this machine was--
I bought it from a US online retailer, as I said earlier.
It was $940 for the machine.
But as a whole kit that I bought trays and a lot of paper
pots for.
It ended up being about $1,300.
Now, you may say, well, that's really
expensive for these low value crops.
But when you think about it, each one of these cells only
costs you a little bit less than $0.10 per plant.
Which is not bad.
Which is still cheaper than buying traditional trays,
right?
You're going to save money doing soil blocks,
but you're going to waste a lot of time.
Right, and then, I mean, the gold standard
is to have a tractor.
Yeah, to have a tractor.
But this is going to set you back well over $10,000.
Right, so I mean, this is a much more viable option
if you're small scale and looking to add something
like this to your operation or just to your backyard
if you're a homesteader, that kind of thing.
So I think there are two good options.
So thanks for showing them to us.
Yeah, happy to be here.