Growing potatoes

Digging is a job that few gardeners, especially those new to gardening, really enjoy. Almost everyone try to find the easy way out to avoid all that back breaking effort, and for most jobs.
In this cases, a rotary powered cultivator is the answer. Using rotary cultivator it won’t do the double digging where you will be loosening the soil to a depth of 18in (45cm) and it can be a great boon.

But before looking at what a rotary cultivator can do to make life easier in the garden, perhaps it’s worth talking about what could be a drawback — the price. You’ll have to pay a pretty sum for a petrol powered machine that can cultivate deeply.
Moreover if your soil is heavy you’ll need to pay a great deal more for a machine which is sufficiently powerful to go down deep. If you just have a small garden, forget it, it just isn’t worth the money.

There are two alternatives. You can hire one from a hire shop and this will give you the chance to get a strong powerful machine on the few days when you need it. The advantage is that there is no need to worry about maintenance.
Here is only the problem of getting it home. You may need an estate car.
The other alternative is to get together with neighbors or get your gardening club or allotment society to buy one you can all share.

This again will help you get a good machine at a reasonable price.

Now, what it can do for you. This depends on the cultivator you buy.
The best cultivators will cultivate to a depth of about l0 in (25cm) by breaking up the soil into small granules and mixing them up. You can distribute your compost on the surface and it will be mixed with the soil more evenly than you could do it with a fork. Set to cultivate lightly it acts more as a hoe and is ideal for dealing with low weed growth amongstvegetables.

Attachments are available to help you earth up potatoes or to plough, hut only on the larger rotary cultivators are these likely to be successful.

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