Dip seed

The Dippelsaat (also dibble seeds or Horstsaat) is the sowing of several seeds in the same place of the seed bed with predetermined even distances. This method of sowing can be carried out by hand with the help of the dibble board or with special dipping seeders. It used to be found in the cultivation of corn and sugar beet on soils with a tendency to silt and in climatically unfavorable regions and was described in detail by Ernst Klapp . The advantage that even with seeds with inadequate growing power and low soil temperatures several germs safely penetrate a solid soil crumb has to be bought with the disadvantage of separating the clumps in laborious manual labor. Dip seeding is no longer important in conventional agriculture in Europe. The seedbed is optimized by means of appropriate agricultural technology , and by single-grain sowing , even the subsequent maintenance of the crop can be largely mechanized, i.e. without costly manual labor. Only in hobby agriculture and in horticulture is dippel seed - which is regionally also called dibble seed, hop seed or eyrie seed - still used.

See also

• Broadseed
• No-till
• Drill seed
• Precision sowing
• Seedbed preparation

literature

• Wilhelm Martin: Handbook of Agriculture . Publishing house Eugen Ulmer. Stuttgart 1895.
• Ernst Klapp : Textbook of arable and crop production . Paul Parey Publishing House, Berlin / Hamburg 1958.