About the sillonnageIn the hérault, one can start sowing some vegetables in the ground.
But it is necessary to "cross". The purchase of an edger is a headache and the prices do not make it wrong: it is really an investment, so as long as it lasts a long time and that we have the right tool .
In the meantime, the "sillonnette based on bread knives exists, the hand saw works, but in hay too recently laid, it is impossible to saw.
So humans invented the "sillo-mains" a long time ago. Of course you can see that in the photo my furrows are not very straight; but nature pays little attention to it (as far as nature can "pay attention" to anything - anthropocentrism when you hold us!). Seedlings will emerge as well - depending on environmental conditions.
So I proceeded on my width of 5 meters:
- on the knees, I start at one end of the line and backwards, I open the wet hay and decomposing, deporting on the sides to leave open a furrow 10 15 centimeters, revealing the soil.
- I pass the teeth of the fork (hay) in the furrow to loosen the soil in which I will deposit the seeds.
- the deposited seeds, I pass with a small rake (handle 25 cm, 10 iron 15 and wide) to cover the sowing.
- furrows by hand
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I found that it was much faster than furrowing with the saw and less tiring. Of course, you have to agree to be on your knees, but on the hay it is not unpleasant (for someone who does not suffer from back ... and knees).