Garden Super Power Rotavator – It Can Create An Organic Compost That Farmers & Gardeners Don’t/Should Know About!
They recognized the wealth their rotavator could bring to a farmer or gardener, but they have so far failed to preach it and enrich the user!
Garden Super Power (GSP) declares
that its rotavator “will break the weeds and other growth up and will bury the
remains into the soil so that they act as a form of organic compost” (gardensuperpower.com).
That is the best claim so far in my wide, wide google search for what the
rotavator can do for the good of the farmer!
The rotavator creating an automatic “organic
compost” is what I have termed “Lorenzo’s Secret” – in my earlier article,
“IRRI, PhilRice, The Rotavator & Lorenzo’s Secret” (27 April 2020, THiNK Journalism,
blogspot.com), I say:
“That
1965, I was instructing the driver of the big tractor not to set the blades to
any depth but just drive through the field, and because the Howard rotavator
was heavy, it cut into the soil anyway, about 2-3 inches, which is what I
wanted. My brother-in-law Lorenzo Casasus,
was there at that time; in later years he copied the shallow cultivation with
his Kuliglig hand tractor and rototiller. The results? His neighbors could not
match his yields even if they tried to copy all his methods – he did not tell
them about the magic that his rototiller was doing.”
So
yes, I would recommend that the farmer consider a GSP rotavator, but there is
still a problem – what is the setting for the rotavator blades so that they
will automatically produce the “organic compost” as they work along the entire
field?
What is a rotavator? GSP says:
“A rotavator is usually an electric or gasoline
powered machine that has either a three-point hitch or is hand controlled and
which can be used for a number of jobs. It’s primarily used to dig up the soil,
turn it over and then rake it level. But that’s not all it can do – here are
some of the main uses:
“You can use a rotavator to break up heavy
soil in areas where the subsoil has broken through the top layer. The rotavator
will till these two layers together, giving you a good tilth making it easier
for seeds to germinate and for young plants to grow.”
The rotavator will mix the top soil and
subsoil together – GSP knows that the mixing will result in an organic compost!
That is what I am saying as “Lorenzo’s Secret.”
GSP says:
“Rotavators (also known as rotary tillers) are used to turn over soil, dig out
weeds and loosen clods.” There is the problem! If you simply allow the
rotavator to turn over soil, dig out weeds and loosen clods, you are not
going to create the “organic compost”! For that, you have to make sure that the
rotavator will cultivate & mix the heavy soil and subsoil together,
“giving you a good tilth making it easier for seeds to germinate and for young
plants to grow.” That is paramount when you use a rotavator.@517

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