Patent ID: 8448586

Claim:
A planting unit for use with a planting implement having a frame and configured to travel along a line of travel, comprising: a disc mountable to the frame and adapted to cut a furrow into a planting surface, the disc having a rotational footprint when the disc is being used to cut the furrow; the disc having a trailing edge; a fertilizer tube associated with the disc and configured to deposit fertilizer into a fertilizer trench formed in the furrow; a trailing arm coupled to the frame; a press wheel rotatably mounted to the trailing arm and configured to pack the furrow cut by the disc, the press wheel having a rotational footprint as the press wheel is packing the furrow; and a seed boot mounted to the frame rearward of the fertilizer tube and the disc, the seed boot including a hollow tubular member configured to pass seed, which can be deposited onto the planting surface, and a stationary cutting edge configured to cut a ledge into the furrow onto which seed is deposited, wherein the seed boot sits aft of the rotational footprint of the disc and forward of the rotational footprint of the press wheel; wherein the seed boot has a leading edge that is rearward of the trailing edge of the disc.