Irrigation

We are watering from April (or after that if year is dry) to the last days in June. In general, Spain is an enough dry country and specially my area, so few crops, as garlic, need watering to produce good harvest. In my area, we mainly water garlic, but few farmers water cereals too. That is not very common because the diesel price is high and cereals price is low, then the result don't worth. Fortunately, it is possible with garlic. We use electric energy instead of diesel for watering, the advantages are: costs are slightly lower so we try to water garlic weekly with irrigations about four hours.

As you can see in my pictures, we use different watering systems. In my opinion, the best is sprinkler, although it isn't always available because you have to do strong work to move the pipe every time. We are lucky on this way because we have installed our watering system underground in all fields and we don't need to move our pipes for watering. The control for different sections of watering system is managed by computer and we can manage it by sms. Before, we used hose reels (We had Ocmis R4 and Irrifrance Optima hose reels). These hose reels have a mini computer which can get a big accuracy about working speed, working distance, times, ... . In my opinion, this tool waters worse than sprinkler but you can water easily because you use tractor alone to move hose reels.

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Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Spraying

At the time the plants have grown and the winter rains have passed, the weed have started to grow and we need to react against them quickly and decidedly. We have been spraying cereals, legumes and garlic for the last days. We combat specially against narrow-leaved herbs which are the most common and which can give us a lot of problems if they become mature. For this purpose, we use herbicides as Totril and Butril of Bayer.

As you can see in our pictures, we use an Anfer Sprayer of 600litres. We work with a width of 12meters in cereals and legumes and 9meters in garlic because the Sprinklers have a width of 18 meters. The spraying speed is high and constant, despite spraying is fast and easy we must be really careful about overlapping. We use our JD with narrow wheels with the purpose of avoiding the plants damage. Our partner and friend Jesús del Olmo has helped us with his JD 2850 and his Gaysa Sprayer of 800litres.

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)