Whatever one may say, the price of land is growing every day. No wonder many owners of countryside plots or small plots try not only to preserve their property, but also to benefit from it. Planting potatoes under a tiller cultivator is now far from a novelty, and many owners of dachas in a few hundred already had time to evaluate this helper. There are two methods of planting potatoes with a motor-block, and we'll get acquainted with them below.
Ways to plant potatoes
First, we 'll consider planting potatoes with a motor-block with a hiller . First of all, we prepare the soil with milling cutters, then we install grousers instead of them. These parts are included in the kit for planting potatoes to the motor block, and also extenders and couplers are provided. The principle of operation is simple, it is equally simple to put together all the parts of the potato planting kit for the motor block: first we insert the pins into the holes, then attach two hillers to the coupler. The standard width between the ends of the hillter is 65 cm. We preliminary make the marking of the section with this distance between the stripes. For marking it is enough to collect something similar to a rake, with two pins on each side at a distance of 65 cm. Turn on the machine and at the first speed we go through the lines already planned. By adjusting the knob you can set the depth of the entrance to the ground. So we are working through the whole site. Now it is possible to lay out potatoes, cultivated and sprouted, along the beds. The second part of the planting of potatoes by a motor-block with a hill-owl is the flooding of beds. Increase the width of the grip on the hovel and put the machine exactly opposite the crests with plantings. Again at the first speed we move along the beds. The difficulty lies in the fact that now you need to follow immediately after both crests. If this is too difficult, you can remove one cutter and install wheels instead of grousers. Then you need to settle exactly on the crest and thus move, flooding the landing.
The second option for planting potatoes with a motor block is to use a plow . This plow is usually dug the ground just before the start of frost. Now we will not mark the lines, and the potatoes will have to be thrown immediately after the plow has passed into the ground. After passing the first strip, we turn the car and put the wheel in the garden. Now the land that the car will take out of the second bed, will fill the first one. Most likely, you have a question whether the wheel will not hurt the potatoes in the garden, whether the car will ruin under its weight landing. In this there is nothing to worry about, as potatoes of such a load are absolutely not afraid. We will also move at the first speed. This method is usually chosen by beginners, since it is much simpler, and it seems more profitable for time costs, because you simultaneously do the following bed and fill up the previous one.
After a time after planting the potatoes, the tiller will see the shoots, then they will start to grow. Everyone knows that potatoes require hilling, and in this case your assistant will also be an outlet. We again put on the cultivator grousers and increase the width between the hillocks as much as possible. Then at the first speed we start to move between the beds, raking the ground to the tubers.
It simplifies the fact that the distance between the beds and hillocks is the same, the wheels of technology will stand exactly between the beds. If it is easier for you to work with one hoe, then instead of the lugs, we re-install the wheels and start the equipment between the beds. But regardless of the chosen method, the work is started only after the rain, when the soil has dried a little and remained only slightly damp. So you and the air to the planting will give, and weed from the weeds .