ABSTRACT
A portable hand-push able seed planter including a single front wheel and a
single rear wheel carried on the base portion of a frame, the front wheel having a
peripheral rib extending radially therefrom which, when the planter is manually
propelled, pushes relatively deeply into the ground to form a furrow for relatively small
seeds. Extending upwardly from the base portion of the frame are side frame members
between which a seed hopper is supported. The seed hopper has means for
sequentially delivering seeds to a seed discharge opening where the seeds drop by
force of gravity into a seed discharge tube which drops the seeds into a furrow formed
by the rib on the front wheel. The seed discharge tube carries a vertically adjustable
shoe on the bottom thereof which in its lowered position makes a furrow in the ground of
a greater width and depth than the furrow formed by the rib on the front wheel for
relatively large seeds. A handle located rearward of the rear wheel connects to the
frame at a point between and spaced horizontally a substantial distance from both
wheels so a downward force on the handle is applied substantially to both wheels.
