How to hog a pot with a motor-block and manually?

Hilling is a procedure in agriculture, consisting in the fact that the soil is heaped up by a bunch of plants. When growing potatoes hilling is considered one of the most important activities. With the help of simple manipulations, it is possible to create conditions for the formation of roots and tubers, and to achieve preservation of moisture. Hilling helps and plowing the land, and therefore, saturates the soil with oxygen. Consider how to hunt potatoes and whether to do it.

Feasibility and necessary materials

Not all gardeners use this type of soil treatment. Those who apply note the advantages of the method. First of all, the area of nutrition of the roots of the plant increases. The soil is maintained in a loosened state. Hilling helps to prevent potato hypothermia during the spring frosts. Without this treatment, it is difficult to achieve high yields.

To complete the hilling you need:

• Ordinary hoe or chopper;
• Mulching layer;
• Gloves.

Fundamental rules

If the gardener has never encountered the cultivation of potatoes, the question before him is how to plant potatoes. Here are the main principles of this event:

• Planting potatoes, rows should be placed in the interval of 50-60 cm from each other. During the hilling, the earth will be shoveled from the inter-row to the bushes.
• The tubers are planted in the open land after the snow has come down and the soil is dry, but frosts are still possible. If there is a threat of frost, you should completely cover the fragile shoots with soil. For this, the earth from row rows is shifted towards the hives by a hoe with a long handle.
• If there are no spring frosts, the first hilling begins at the time when the tops reach a level of 15-20 cm. The procedure should be performed better on a sunless day or after rainfall, when the rainwater leaks into the ground.
• In the heat, the beds are treated in the morning or evening. If the land is very dry, before the procedure, the beds are watered. During the first treatment, the bushes are covered with soil, grabbing the lower leaves. Inter-rows are covered with sawdust or peat mulch.
• When the bushes reach a height of 25-30 cm, a second treatment is performed. If required, beds are watered, weeds are removed.
• The frequency of hilling is related to the potato variety, soil type, climatic conditions. Early maturing varieties are treated once.
• Plants on clayey heavy soil require similar care treatments once a week or two. Potatoes, cultivated on light soils, will last 2-3 treatments per summer. In favorable conditions, gardeners do not hunt, but loosen.

These are the basic rules for cultivating the soil near potato bushes.

How to perform the processing?

The procedure of hilling can be performed weekly. After propolok soil waiting for rain. Treading is done by combs from the ground so as to cover half the bushes. Primary treatment is carried out when the tops grow to 15-20 cm.

After 7 days, treat again. During this time, the tops grow about 10 cm. If it has not grown enough, the treatment should be postponed for another week or two.

In arid times, it is not worth the procedure, it can lead to potato diseases. It is best to conduct this event after it has been rained or watered. Before this you should weed the beds from the weeds.

Do I need to do this?

Often gardeners are tormented by the question of why to hoe potatoes. If you do not perform this procedure, the number of root crops is significantly reduced. This is due to the fact that in the pristine area on the stem, roots and new tubers are formed. The earth is supplied with oxygen, so the growth of tubers is intensified.

The procedure of hilling helps to fight with weeds. But you should be careful not to destroy the roots of the plant. The soil around the bush is loosened a little, with the help of the earth, rows of necessary heights are formed from the interrow rows.

When do I start processing?

Gardeners are interested in when hilling potatoes after planting. The opinions of experts on this issue are ambiguous. It depends on the height of the shoots. But in different sources, the figures vary. They fit into the interval from 14 to 20 cm.

Many truck farmers try to hoe as early as possible. And not always the height of the bush tells them about the need for processing. Experienced gardeners are accustomed to rely more on their intuition.

Early hilling can replace weeding and loosening, and also protects the shoots from frosts.

In most regions of Russia potato planting is performed in the first days of May. But after a couple of weeks, it's usually freezing. At this time there were shoots. Covered with earth sprouts will tolerate any drop in temperature, even slightly below zero.

Happens, after carrying out processing the growth of a bush amplifies. Under favorable weather conditions, bushes acquire a fortress in the shortest possible time.

How many times to process?

Usually they hibernate twice. Secondarily a couple of weeks after the initial treatment, before the flowering of the potato. But if you start early, there will not be enough two procedures. Need to focus on the needs of planting.

If the bushes grow, the branches fall apart, and the nest grows in width, the tubers look out from under the ground, which means you need to settle down.

The procedure can be performed three and four times during the season. The complexity of the process should not frighten the gardener, because dealing with weeding is much more difficult.

Optimal time

Ogorodniki often engaged in the processing of potato bushes during a hot summer day. Unfortunately, such an event will not be of use, and it will take a lot of forces. After the event, plantings may fade.

Therefore, in the heat to handle the treatment is early morning or evening, when the sun is not so bright.

Perform hilling is ideal after the rain. So the wet land will not pour from the crests. And the moist soil moved to the stems will help to form shoots under the ground, on which grow tubers.

How to hoe a potato if the weather is dry? If the rain is a rare phenomenon, before hilling it is worth pouring bushes.

Do you always need treatment?

Sometimes in front of truck farmers there is no question about how to hunt potatoes. Experienced gardener try to come up with alternative methods of caring for potatoes. For example, there is a way of planting, in which hilling is simply not necessary. So, potatoes are grown under a non-woven material. In addition, the method of "unraveling" is also considered effective.

Hilling, as already mentioned, helps to solve several problems:

• Loosening of the soil;
• Creation of additional volume of land, under which roots and tubers are formed;
• Improved illumination of bushes;
• Getting rid of weeds.

But it turns out that all these tasks can be solved by the reverse method - "razokucivaniem." It consists in the fact that the growing potato tops are placed on the ground. From above pour the soil, grass, straw and other materials, closing the shoots, leaving only the very tops. As soon as the tops grow, the procedure is repeated. Many truck farmers grow potatoes under the grass. True, with this method of location much more is required.

Gardeners use methods of cultivation of potato culture on warm ridges, in bags. In these cases, hilling is also not required.

Processing methods

Methods of hilling are directly determined by the features of planting. If potatoes were planted by hand, then humming is applied exclusively by hand. For this, choppers, plows, harrows are used. How to hoe a potato with a chopper, will be told a little later.

If the potato was planted by a motor-block, then the motor-block should be hilled.

How to hug potatoes by hand? It does not require special skills. Take the chopper and perform a series-progressive movement around the bush from the bottom up. Some varieties (Dutch, for example) should be completely covered with soil. Others - to the lower leaves.

Manual brooming is used in small potato planting areas. Of course, it is more labor-intensive than the procedure for using special equipment.

How to hoe a potato with a motor-block?

Planning the treatment with a motor-block is necessary already during planting. To calculate the interval between plantings, you need to add 10 cm to the width between the wheels of the motoblock. If the bushes are planted densely, this will create problems with the passage of machinery.

The first time they hibernate when the bushes grow up to 15-20 cm. The hiller is set so that the crest of the soil is small. Nothing, if some bushes completely cover the earth, after a while they will grow again.

Next, the hiller is set so that the ridges are wider and taller. So do not damage the tubers, and a suitable soil cushion of 20 cm will be formed.

When the potatoes are hacked for the first time by the tiller, the speed is lowered. To hurry it is not necessary. This will help to notice all the errors and how to loosen the rows.

Hilling is performed by a motor block or special hillers. The wheelbarrow, the coupler and the hillter are fastened to the motoblock.

When installing a hiller, you can control the depth of the dive and the angle of treatment. Motoblock set on a flat surface, the hiller is lowered and fixed to the coupling.

During the procedure, you may need to change the angle of attack.

Handle potato bushes motoblock easy. The main thing is to carefully set both necessary parameters. This is the interval between the lower points of the disks. It is equal to the width of the rows. And also the angle of attack. It should provide good coverage of potatoes with earth.

The wheels of the motoblock must be 70 cm in diameter and 10-14 cm in width. With such parameters the bushes will not be damaged.

Today, summer residents use home-made motoblocks. They are affordable and reliable in quality. A small area can be treated with machinery that has 5-6 liters. from. It happens that folk craftsmen improve the units by various homemade adaptations.

In the treatment of heavy soils, a light motor-block can slip due to insufficient depth in the soil. Light weight does not allow it to be sunk at the right distance. To solve the problem gardeners set weighting agents on wheels or on the body. As weighting weights or weights are used.

So, we figured out how to properly hone potatoes. If all recommendations are followed, any trucker will be able to increase the potato yield on his plot.