With the advent of spring, it's a hot season for gardeners and summer residents: we need to collect garbage and process the land before planting, and this is a very laborious work. To facilitate this difficult annual work will help the garden hand cultivator, which has different types.
In this article we will get acquainted with the main varieties of a hand cultivator, designed for work in the country and the garden.
A hand cultivator is a tool for weeding and loosening the soil, with the simultaneous removal of weeds.
Rotary cultivator
Such a cultivator is used for loosening the soil, destroying weeds and mixing fertilizers with soil. It consists of a bracket with a moving knife for cutting weeds, a rotary hoe (these are four rotating discs) and a cuttings.
Star hand cultivator
Very popular in the fight against weeds is a manual mechanical star cultivator, it is also called rotary or disk, as it is based on disks, made in the form of asterisks, connected together. Most often for the convenience of such a cultivator, its construction is complemented by a long handle and wheels.
To set in motion this mechanism, it is enough to hold them with a little effort on the bed, then sharp rays of stars will cut the roots of weeds and loosen the earth. Such a cultivator is convenient to use in hard-to-reach places of garden plots (around bushes, in row-spacing). The width of the weed beds depends on the number of stellar discs, the more of them, the wider.
Hand-cultivator-root eliminator Tornado
This is a manual cultivator of the mechanical principle of action, made in the form of spiral-shaped pointed teeth directed in different directions. Working with the Tornado model is very simple:
- put it vertically to the ground;
- turning the cultivator into the soil for 60 degrees;
- rotate clockwise;
- Raise it, while loosening the ground and pulling the roots out of the ground.
When using such an aggregate, the loosening of the soil extends up to 20 cm deep, without damaging the plants.
Even a pensioner can use this cultivator, since it does not require the use of great physical strength, thanks to its non-standard construction, the load is distributed evenly to all the muscles of the body.
Hand-held mini-cultivator
The listed models of cultivators are available in reduced sizes, therefore they are called mini-cultivators, they are used in places where there is very little space and it is inconvenient to work with a conventional hand cultivator. For example, using a Tornado mini mini-cultivator, you can:
- work in small greenhouses;
- loosen the soil around low bushes (berries, flowers, etc.);
- Easily and quickly remove weeds;
- to make planting holes for bulbs, flowers or seedlings;
- cultivate the soil very close to the trunks of trees and shrubs.
Manual electric cultivator
On small plots electric models of cultivators, less heavy than gasoline and more productive than conventional manual ones, are very popular. They are quite compact in size, with good maneuverability and are great for carrying out weeding works in the garden between trees and shrubs. The only condition is the presence of electricity on your site and the length of the cord, enough to cover the entire site. Such a cultivator can even be used indoors, as it is environmentally friendly. When choosing a helper, in the form of a hand cultivator, it is necessary to pay attention to the presence of a long handle (the length of which should correspond to the growth) and the metal from which the tool is made (the highest quality is considered structural steel).
In addition to manual, there are other cultivators for cottages , working on electricity or gasoline.