SOWING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for preventing excessive water droplets sprinkled by a water-sprinkling device from dripping at optional positions and capable of recovering the same on a water-receiving dish efficiently in a sowing machine for sowing the seeds of a vegetable such as Welsh onion, etc., on seedling-growing pots. SOLUTION: This sowing machine 1 equipped with an automatic conveying device for conveying the seedling-growing pots 10 loaded on trays 11, a growth soil-filling device 3 for filling the growth soil into the seedling-growing pots 10 conveyed by the automatic conveying device 2, a sowing device 6 for performing the sowing after the growth soil is filled, a covering soil-filling device 7 for filling the covering soil into the seedling-growing pots 10 sowed by the sowing device 6 and a water-sprinkling device 4/8 for sprinkling water to the seedling-growing pots 10 after filling the growing soil and covering soil is provided by hanging a drip-falling plate 37 from a lower directional part of a seedling-growing pot-conveying rail 35 as right angle to its progressing direction and arranging it in the upper direction of the water-receiving dish 33. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT