Recently, there is little in which farm you can not find a motoblock - a universal unit that allows you to solve many tasks in the garden or on the field. With a trailer, this device can also serve as a means of transportation. The range of possibilities of the motor block is quite wide. Including it concerns such procedure as hilling of a potato by a motor-block.
Why do potatoes need hilling?
Hilling is an indispensable stage in the cultivation of potatoes. Thanks to the hilling, the ground is simultaneously prone to the stem and root system of the plant and loosening. This is mainly to improve the supply of oxygen to developing tubers. In addition, hilling allows you to remove germinating on the site of weeds.
In large areas, it will take a lot of effort and time to hog. But with the help of a motoblock, this problem can be solved in a matter of hours.
Methods of hilling potatoes with a motor-block
The motoblock itself does not produce this necessary for growing procedure. You will have to buy a special attachment for hoeing potatoes on a motor-block. It is called a hiller . This is an element simple in its construction and produces loosening of the soil with its simultaneous precipitation.
The methods of hogging a motoblock depend on what type of hiller was chosen. On sale there are plow-shaped and disk hillers. The hillside-shaped plow has the appearance of a triangle with sides wrapped upward. When installing the nozzle, it is necessary to take into account the depth and angle of immersion. Maximum depth - no more than fifteen centimeters. The hiller should be located in this way all the time that you are planting beds. The angle of immersion is set with small tools on the hillside itself.
The cultivation of potatoes by a motor-block with a disk hill-topper is somewhat different. This kind of nozzle is the axis on which the disks are fixed. It is they who break up large parts of the earth into small ones and rake it up to the stems of potatoes. Before working, you need to configure other parameters. If you have an adjustable disk heel, adjust the distance between the disks. As a rule, for beds with potatoes the interval in forty-seventy centimeters approaches.
In addition, the angle of the disks is also adjustable. It is important that the parts of the nozzle are at the same angle, so that the bedded beds will have a neat appearance.
When hoeing the motor-block with a nozzle it is necessary to establish exactly in the middle of the aisle, after which the motor-block is started at a low speed. Please note that in order for the hilling to be carried out by means of a motoblock, not manually, the distance between the rows is laid at least fifty to seventy centimeters.
The terms of hilling the potatoes with a motor-block
Hilling is a process that should be carried out at a specific time. Some gardeners recommend that only one
The first hilling of the potato by the tiller is carried out as soon as the bushes reach a height of 17-20 m. As a rule, this period occurs at the end of May - beginning of June.
After a while, again, perform the hilling with a motoblock. The right time for this is as soon as the potato bushes grow to 20-25 cm, that is, after 7-10 days. Many owners of land with potatoes do not produce the third stage, if it is not necessary. If you notice that after a heavy rainfall the kidney has hardened or the roots are bare, then it makes sense to spend the third hilling.