Planting potatoes with a motor cultivator

In our country, people have long revered potatoes as their “second bread” and to this day many families grow them, providing for their family for the long winter, regardless of whether they live in a city or a village. The process begins back in April with the purchase or removal of potatoes from the cellar for planting. Medium-sized tubers are selected, whole, without flaws, holes, cracks, or signs of disease. The selected potatoes are left in the sun so that they begin to germinate.

Growing potatoes is a labor-intensive process, so they are trying to mechanize it. Those who own fairly large plots of land are increasingly buying motor cultivators. These are lightweight machines for earthworks. Planting potatoes with a motor cultivator begins with deep loosening of the soil and the simultaneous formation of a planting furrow. It should be done when the soil temperature at a depth of 9-10 cm reaches 7-8 degrees. You should try to make the furrows even, maintaining a distance of 50-60 cm between them, so that later, when loosening the rows, you do not damage the future harvest.

Next, the tubers are manually placed in the furrows, at a distance of 30-50 cm from each other. Then they go through the field again with a motorized cultivator to bury the potatoes in the furrows. Planting potatoes with a motor-cultivator not only takes less time and effort, but also helps to obtain good harvests, since a motor-cultivator loosens the soil much better than a shovel. Moreover, a motor cultivator will help you weed, loosen and hill up potatoes. You will only have to harvest the crop manually.