Hi, I use the seeder for veggies with good results, but I have not had much luck with flowers. I tried it with hybrid sunflowers and dropped either way too many, or way too few. I hand seeded everything else. would love to hear if anyone has mastered the seeder!

Me too...I also have one purchased at a garage sale and have been afraid to try it! I wonder if they'd make plates for flower seeds??

Wendy

Hi,

Flowerfarmer also suggested using the beet plate for zinnias and taping off every other hole. That is what I did and it worked pretty well. Been seeding sunflowers by hand because I can't find a recommendation for those. The different varieties seem be different sizes anyhow. I am just going to wing it very soon. Too many seeds need in too fast to be monkeying around planting them all by hand. In case anyone cares to share (seems like someone already did but I can't find it with the searche feature), what size plate are you using for procut sunflowers? That is what I am planting the most of but also planting ebony and gold, double quick, strawberry blond, bashful, chianti hybrid, firecracker, soraya, sunbright, starburst lemon aurora and a few more varieties in very small amounts. Seed is expensive enough to worry about getting them planted too thickly but I guess time is money too. It is going to rain tomorrow so I'd better get back at planting. Shirley in nice and sunny (today) PA.

There is a plate that is a blank one that you can custom-cut to your needing. I believe it's #18109.

http://www.earthway.com/2007manuals/Seed%20Plate%20Guide.pdf

I USED MY SWEET CORN PLATE FOR SUNFLOWER AND IT WORKED PERFECT BEEN DOING IT FOR SEVERAL YEARS STEVE IN N.C.