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Archive for September, 2008

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Sep

Two types of equipments and devices are employed for staving off the enemies of the plants:
1)  Those that provide mechanical kind of protection to plants.
2)  Those that are employed for application of the insecticides and the fungicides.

The first one, the cover frame can easily be said to be the most helpful. Typically it consists of a box of wood which measures approximately 18 inches to 2 feet square with a height of about eight foot. It is covered with a glass, cloth protection and mosquito wire/net. The very first two coverings provide the additional benefit of heat retention and protection from the cold, thus facilitating the planting earlier than it would have otherwise been safe.

These are extensively used to get an earlier and safer start ely with melon, cucumbers and other vine veggies.

Simpler devices like the cardboard or collars of tar paper, made so that they are of several inches height and are high and big enough so that they can be placed around the plant’s stem and can penetrate the soil a few inches, are used to protect recently set plants like the cabbage or tomatoes from cut –worm.

Poison powder should be applied using powder gun and in this case a hand –powered compressed air sprayer can be employed for application of wet sprays. It should possess a mist making nozzle; in this case the automatic non clogging type is the best.  For extensive work though, a wheel mounted barrel pump may be utilized. For either of them, extension rods used for spraying the trees may be acquired. For small scale operations, a hand syringe of good quality may be employed. However it may be most beneficent to get a small sprayer tank for a little more money as it will throw an incessant stream of spray and hold larger spraying solution amounts inside it. A brass metal machine for any of these types will be better and longer lasting than that of cheaper kind of metal which tends to corrode quickly because of the chemicals and poisons that are made use of in these.

For harvesting purposes, in a small sized garden, few instruments apart from the spade, spading fork, and the prong-hoe, are used. The reason being, most not only need long rows of soil to be used economically, but need horse power too. The double wheeled hoe has an attachment for the onion harvester that can be advantageously used for loosening onions, turnips, beets, etc., out of soil or maybe used for cutting the spinach. In order to get the carrots and such deep growing veggies, you may run a hand plow near to the sides of carrots.

If you are intending to purchase garden tools, it is advisable to first investigate thoroughly the various kinds available, and buy keeping the long term use in mind.  In short, well cared for, good tools will enhance your gardening profits and pleasure.