Any work in the country can not be done without inventory. It is chosen depending on the destination. What happens garden tools for loosening the soil and how to do it yourself, read the article.
Rake
It is very important to loosen and level the surface soil layers before planting. This can be done with a simple tool - a rake that is made of different material. It is not recommended to cultivate heavy soil with a wooden rake. They are very light, so you have to make some physical effort working with them. It is better to loosen such soil with an iron rake.
Choosing garden tools for loosening the soil, you need to carefully examine it, especially the reverse side. It is important to know that a solid metal bar is stronger than a composite one. And wide is better than narrow. Typically, a rake has twelve teeth, but for loosening large areas, sixteen or more are needed.
Soil cultivator
For those who prefer to work without the use of technology, there is a manual cultivator. It is used when it becomes necessary to loosen the surface layer of compacted soil or to plow the weeds. This inventory is a metal plate with three or five teeth, to which a long stalk is attached. A man loosens the soil with such a cultivator, standing upright.
Soil cultivator made from saw
The farm of any gardener or gardener has a broken saw. A triangular blade is easily and quickly cut out of it, to which a metal pipe bent at a slight angle rips fifteen centimeters long. A round wooden stick is inserted into it. Its length varies from one to one and a half meters, depending on the height of the person who will work with this inventory. The blade is an isosceles triangle. It can be made of various shapes. The dimensions of the blade depend on where you need to loosen the soil. If these are narrow aisles, it is better to use garden tools for loosening the soil with a small blade.
It is also used for loosening the soil and weeding weeds in greenhouses, between raspberry and strawberry bushes. A small plate of a home-made cultivator has a width of seven to eight centimeters and a length of six and a half. For loosening the soil under the bushes of currants, gooseberries, grapes, use equipment with an average blade size, the width of which is fifteen centimeters, and the length is ten. They can loosen beds with melons, cucumbers and tomatoes.
For cultivating the soil under fruit trees, it is more convenient to use a large blade with which garden tools are equipped for loosening the soil. With your own hands, the made cultivator easily copes with labor-intensive work. The width of the blade is twenty-five centimeters, the length is fourteen. You can take any other sizes.
Chopper soil cultivator
Such an inventory is very simple to make. You need to take an ordinary chopper and weld a curved steel plate to the central part of the blade. At its free end, drill two holes. Then a piece of pipe with a diameter of two and a half centimeters is selected. On one side, two cheeks of square shape are welded to it, on each of which five coaxial holes are drilled. Cheeks are arranged symmetrically with respect to each other.
The distance between them should correspond to the thickness of the curved plate, which is inserted between the cheeks and fixed. A wooden handle is inserted into the pipe section from the opposite side. So with your own hands you can make garden tools for loosening the soil. The photo clearly demonstrates how you can change the angle of inclination relative to the ground.
Homemade iron cultivator
To cultivate the soil under the bush, you definitely need garden tools. With your own hands, a cultivator made will facilitate labor and increase productivity. To make the tool you will need soft iron, from which hoops are made on wooden barrels. This will be the source material.
A chisel cuts a small strip, the width of which is three and a half centimeters, and the length is twenty. At one end, four centimeters long teeth are machined. Usually it turns out no more than three pieces. A pair of holes are drilled at the other end. A wooden handle is secured with nails. Garden tools for loosening the soil is ready.
Mole cultivator
This garden tool loosens the soil to a depth of twenty-five centimeters. The width of the strip dug by him can be forty-two, forty-eight or fifty-five centimeters, it depends on the model of inventory. The soil Mole cultivator is simple and reliable. The design is a frame with teeth and a pair of oncoming, articulated forks.
You do not need to have any special skills to work with the tool. It is enough to press the pitchfork with your foot, and they will enter the ground, and when lowering the handle, the hand will rise up. Lumps of soil are pushed through the teeth and lower to the place from which they were lifted, already loosened. A layer of land during such processing does not turn over. Weeds will be freed from the ground, but not cut. They, together with the roots, will appear on the surface of the bed. They can be collected in a bucket and taken out of the garden, or you can leave it. They will dry and die anyway.
Garden tools for loosening the soil "Mole" is a universal tool. It can be used by people with different sides of the leg support: right or left. But this tool does not treat dense virgin soil. It must first be opened.
Fokin cultivator
This garden tool is called the Fokin plane cutter, by the name of its inventor. It is intended for loosening the soil and its weeding. With the help of inventory you can do twenty types of various works in the garden and vegetable garden. The main function of a plane cutter is to pull out or cut weeds at a depth of two to five centimeters. This method of soil cultivation is gentle, because the soil structure does not change, animals and insects are not harmed, and a lot of physical effort and time are not expended.
Loosening is carried out without wrapping a layer of earth, so there is no need to change the surface layer. Of course, it is impossible to plow the soil to a great depth with a plane cutter. In traditional agriculture, he rather plays the role of a chopper. But, if the soil is porous and with a mulching layer, garden tools for loosening the soil of Fokine can work wonders. Its design is very simple. Two plates, bent at a certain angle, resemble staples. The surfaces by which weeds are cut are sharpened sharply.
Fokin cutters have six varieties, each of which is designed for a specific job on the land. So, for example, beds are weeded out with a small tool and thick shoots are thinned out. With the help of large inventory, the preparation, formation and hilling of beds is carried out. He also mows the grass. It is better to loosen heavy clay soils with the Plastysh cutter, with a shortened blade. For earthing up tall plants, the Mogushnik is suitable - it has a wide blade.
How to work with a plane cutter?
Loosening the soil is better with a large tool. First you need to mow the weeds with tall stems. If the soil surface is heavily overgrown with grass, you need to cover it with black polyethylene. So the weeds will not have the strength to grow. This work should be done half a month before the loosening of the soil.
So, the tip of the inventory is stuck in the ground and deepened by three centimeters. The blade must be installed parallel to the ground or with a slight slope. It is strictly forbidden to place it perpendicular to the surface. Then, with a smooth movement, the tool is pulled towards itself. The blade will move and cut the roots of the grass. When working with a plane cutter, you need to carefully monitor so that the soil does not move, but remains in the same place. If the soil remains at the feet, something has been done wrong with the tool. Perhaps the movements were too fast. With a well-sharpened tool, work progresses quickly and does not require much effort.
"Tornado" - manual cultivator
Cultivating the soil is not easy. To get a rich crop of planted crops, you need to dig and loosen the soil, get rid of weeds and weed plants. These works are time consuming and physical. Work can be facilitated with the help of a hand cultivator "Tornado". Its design is surprisingly simple. A handle is attached to one side of the central metal rod, and bent teeth are attached to the other. Moreover, they are rotated in relation to the rod against the clock. That's all the tricks! Garden tools for loosening the soil "Tornado" relieves gardeners and gardeners from heavy monotonous labor.
To work with the cultivator, you need to put it vertically and rotate around the axis. The teeth will gradually screw into the ground. With this tool, the soil is loosened and weeds are destroyed. Moreover, in the process of work there is a uniform distribution of the entire load on the body. A person is less tired and does more work.