Potato hiller - a way to make physical labor easier

Potato shoots are already appearing. The next stage in its cultivation is hilling. It breaks the potato field into furrows, allowing you to move across it without damaging the planting. Hilling also allows moisture to be retained between the rows, gets rid of weeds, and protects from frost. This procedure helps to increase potato yields, since it improves gas exchange in the mound, where the tubers are filled. It is advisable to carry out hilling after each watering or rain to loosen the soil and retain moisture.

Usually a hoe is used for hilling potatoes. However, many gardeners mechanize this work by buying or creating their own potato hiller. Stores sell special mechanized hillers for potatoes. But why buy a new unit if the farm already has a walk-behind tractor. In this case, it is enough to purchase a hiller for a walk-behind tractor, a special hanging element. If you don’t have a walk-behind tractor, you can do homemade potato hiller, the Internet is full of ideas for creating it and videos demonstrating the operation of such a hiller.

The idea is to fasten two disks of a suitable diameter at such an angle that when the disks are twisted, a mound is formed. And, of course, attach a handle to the device so that you can hill up without bending over. You can walk across the field with such a hiller, and you won’t need to swing a hoe for half a day.In order to be able to hill up grown plants, it is necessary to provide for connecting the disks with a sufficiently high metal fork.