Tools start kit: 9 critical micro-breeding tools
Interested in micro-breeding, but you don’t know where to start? Believe or not, you only need 9 tools to start. These easy-to-find micro-breeding tools will prepare a stage for productive cultivation!
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Micro-kennel tools: Start set tools
These are the basic tools that I recommend for micro agriculture. They add high value at a relatively low cost. That’s all you really need to start.
In fact, I also recommend this starter set for home gardenersexcept for the Motyka of the Circle. If you have a very small plot, the hoe from the wheel can be bulky.
Crucial field tools for micro-kennel
Rake preparations for bed with tubes to the order. Adding a sweeping with a fixed shoulder blade is a way to mark.
We perform most of our work with only seven off -road tools. In the order of how often we operate them, here are off -road tools, which I still put in the back of the van with a word about how to operate them.
1. 30 ″ probaca preparation for bed
This rake can be distinguished from standard gardening, because the angle of its teeth can be adapted to effectively “after all” debris, and at the same time stand in a comfortable vertical position and because it is lighter.
His teeth can slide with the soil surface, which makes it an ideal tool for preparing the deposit without passing. Standard hornbeam would go too deeply. It also has a longer handle than most rakes.
We operate this tool almost every day to remove debris beds and to align them before planting. Rake is available in selected Johnny seeds, and a heavier version is sold via earth tools.
The addition of sweeping with a fixed shoulder blade is a way
Update the hoe from the circle.
Johnny also sells row markers, tubes that can be placed above selected teeth to aid mark the rows. Or you can cut your own pipes from 1/2 ″ pex humping pipes.
2. Siege of a fixed blade on the motif
Encourage with a solid blade from Hoss tools can be adapted to match many types of wheels. Our hoe comes from Glaser.
The blades are solid and “fixed”, which means that they do not rotate like a oscillating hoe. The power from the upper body is transferred directly to the soil.
We operate sweeping to care for paths and rely on them to loosen the concentrated substrate, the task usually reserved for wide. We believe that sweeping is more ergonomic and faster to operate than widths. We also operate this tool for cut under the roots to loosen them.
Rake adjustable width is one of our most commonly used tools.
3. Aluminum scoop shovel
The low measuring spatula has won the desired place on our tool list because it is multifunctional. We disseminate the compost and operate it for evaluation
paths. The blades are quite available in different widths and I recommend buying one whose front edge fits the width of your paths between growing beds.
4. Rake adjustable width
This inexpensive rake has teeth, which can be adjusted between 6 ″ and 24 ″. We bought ours in a local equipment store.
We operate it to neat paths, remains of growing beds and for general cleaning of the yard.
If you have only one hoe, I recommend a hoe with half the moon, because the operate is ergonomic, tough and can reach weeds in tight spaces.
5. Half Moon How
This classic European tool is both powerful and precise. His solid goose is powerful enough to allow deep digging, and its diminutive points with finesse under plants and between plants.
In other words, This is one hoe that performs the work of many, ideally for a minimalist. We tried dozens of the hoe and our experience is still the best versatile hoe.
His head is 6 1/2 ″. Our Half Moon Motyk is made by the dewit.
6. Narrow colorer Motyk
Choose Social Carbite Motics, designed by Eliot Coleman, selected seeds of Johnny, He exceeds other diminutive holes we used.
With head 33/4 ″, It is only a tool for cultivation between the greenery of the endocrusion strictly together.
A narrow colored motif perfectly matches the rows of strictly arranged greenery.
It slides on the surface, all linearly, instead of kicking into the ground. This greatly facilitates operate than standard hoes.
7. Garden Fork
Our Claington Forge garden forge is the most tough fork we used. It is ideal for loosening carrots and potatoes, movement of stubborn weeds or moving straw.
We broke many cheaper forks before we withdrew, which should last throughout their lives.
The fork is made of one piece of steel, which stretches far up the handleAfter a point where our previous forks have always broke.
Crucial micro-breeding tools: tools for harvesting
When we moved, we cut a number of harvest tools to two.
Knives and bibs for collecting hands are stored on magnetic rods near the entrances to our processing room and greenhouse.
1. Curved grape scissors
The curved end of this tool gives him the edge, so to speak –It allows you to collect without awkward twisting your wrist around the fruit clusters to reach the stems. This seems to be a diminutive point, but after collecting 500 pounds of tomatoes, your wrist will appreciate this diminutive curve.
Having said, many types of pruners can work on collecting tomatoes, peppers and the like, and I think the best pair of scissors is one that comfortably fits your hand.
2. Knife with a 6-inch restaurant class of stainless steel
We operate this knife, designed for operate in restaurants, to collect greenery for babies.
We have several and hang them on magnets attached to our green house and outside the door to our processing room, where they are quick. The square edge of the knife makes it unthreatening to operate.
In addition, the tool will easily disinfect because of its uncomplicated shape. It is widely available via online restaurants.
Recommended readings
Tools for the starter kit: 9 Vital Tools for Micro-Farming for the first time appeared in Chelsea Green Publishing.