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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3068323" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>There is a reason farmers plant North to South or slightly off.</p><p> One is that if planted with conventional wheat drills, the peaks of the rows left from the opener and left by the packer wheels, can blow into the furrows before germinating and have the seeds too deep for good germination. The old saying is that dust in wheat, and mud in oats.</p><p>The current method a lot of farmers are using is a no-till drill, and it really doesn't matter what direction as the openers just open non -worked ground and there is nothing but a slit in the ground for the seed to fall into vs a field that is disked, and ran over with a spring tooth to smooth before planting with a conventional drill.</p><p>Smaller gardens, I'm not sure it would make a difference, although my garden is planted N to S just for convenience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3068323, member: 5412"] There is a reason farmers plant North to South or slightly off. One is that if planted with conventional wheat drills, the peaks of the rows left from the opener and left by the packer wheels, can blow into the furrows before germinating and have the seeds too deep for good germination. The old saying is that dust in wheat, and mud in oats. The current method a lot of farmers are using is a no-till drill, and it really doesn't matter what direction as the openers just open non -worked ground and there is nothing but a slit in the ground for the seed to fall into vs a field that is disked, and ran over with a spring tooth to smooth before planting with a conventional drill. Smaller gardens, I'm not sure it would make a difference, although my garden is planted N to S just for convenience. [/QUOTE]
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