CULTIVATORS FOR HOME GARDENS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32296, 14 May 1970, Page 21

CULTIVATORS FOR HOME GARDENS

The introduction of low-priced and widely versatile powered mechanical cultivators in recent years has been a boon to home gardeners. With vegetable prices increasing every year, the trend is to producing homegrown supplies and householders are turning larger areas of their sections over to productive garden.

Power cultivators have Most families probably spend been an indispensable tool to considerably more than $lOO the commercial gardener for a year on their vegetables years, but the home grower and they will find that their now has models specially savings have paid for the suited to his needs. new machine in less than two Preparing a garden was years. previously regarded as a Two major types ■ of tedious, hard job but now powered cultivator are manuwomen, old people, and men factured in New Zealand at with little time to spare can present have all the satisfaction andi The first is the larger Rota-

benefits of gardening without the strain of the tougher, time consuming tasks. The new machines more than pay for themselves over a relatively short period.

hoe, designed for farmers, commercial gardeners and the more ambitious home gardener. They turn soil over, treak up ground, do the weeding, ridging, compost

turning over, clearing of surface drains and so on. Their uses are numerous when converted to tractors at a small cost Home Use The second is the smaller, variable-purpose machine designed especially for the needs and budget of the home garden. It is light, easily handled by men or women, old or young, and yet it still digs down to a full spade depth with ease in the hardest ground. It is able to manoeuvre around rose bushes, in closely planted rows and up to walls, so that the gardener can use it frequently for many little jobs as well as the bigger ones. These basic types of power cultivator have given the average New Zealand householder the means to tame his section .