Killing weeds

At this moment in time, when we have sowed our sunflowers and all our cereal works have been done to prepare the harvesting, we had to work in our olive trees. We had to harrow them but we had sites where our cultichissel couldn't work, therefore we had to kill weeds manually. We had two options: we could use a hoe or herbicide... We thought to spray herbicide was easier, quicker and more comfortable for our back.

For this work performed last weekend, we used a Matabi backpack manual sprayer, what allowed us to access every sites. This job was performed easily and quickly, but when the backpack manual sprayer was full (16 litres), we could feel its weight in our back. The used herbicide was Glifosato, as you can see in our pictures.

Apart from this, we have other electric sprayer too, what works with batteries, but I think manual sprayer is better for this job because it has more caudal and we can work quicker.

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Sowing sunflowers returns!

We finished to sow sunflowers last weekend. We are publishing a few pictures about that for showing you the work done.

As we commented in last post about sowing sunflowers we used Almanzor seeds, you can see it from here. This seed has given very good results since we began to use it in 2008.  This time we hope to achieve our expectations. I would like to highlight our mechanical sower worked very fine and we could do our work quickly and easily. We used two markers at the center of the tractor what do our tasks more confortable and we can get straight rows easily.

We show a few pictures about harrowing, so before sowing we have to prepare our soil for that. After ploughing our fields with discs plough in January, and harrowing with cultichissel again few days ago, we have to harrow them again in perpendicular way to the direction we used to sow before. Soil is perfect for sunflowers since they can grow quickly. It is important they grow quickly to avoid having several problems with strong rains what can move seeds or what prevent the emergence of the stem to harden the ground. 

You can see a video from here.

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Barriga brothers: garlic harrowing

Last weekend we visited Barriga brothers (we are good friends) while they were harrowing garlic near or our farm.

As you can see in our pictures, they use a small tool to harrowing garlic because the working depth is very small. They have a special system which allows co-driver to manage the tool when it has a small desviation and the tractor cannot move itself because its wheels work between two rows. This work needs a high accuracy whether they don’t want to get garlics damaged or buried so the working speed was about 4,5 km/h. After harrowing, the field gets other dark color more beautiful. Now, they have to water them with the aim of continuing with their growth.

The tool used has five rows which has exactly the same number of rows as the sower machine has. With this objective they are sure than they don't have any problem with the distance between rows in different laps.

 You can see a video from our YouTube channel.

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)