...sized seed-potatoes. Traditional Potato Planting Ran over the area in front of the brassica tunnel with the Mantis. Lovely fine tilth and any seedling weeds chopped up too. Then drew...
Potatoes Potatoes in Coldframe Raised Bed Finally got my Sarpo in. Just three rows and it only took half an hour to plant them. I used my Mantis to dig...
...freeze well. Leeks Last planting of leeks. The raised bed has had a good layer of rotted manure and another of compost prior to rotavating with the Mantis. Then trodden...
...it being delicious. Carrots, Salsify & Parsnips My first and very late job was to sow carrots and parsnips. The extra deep new raised bed I prepared with the Mantis...
...things will catch up. I keep repeating that mantra! Planting potatoes is one area where the Mantis really comes in useful. First of all I run down the row with...
...grass had been killed back and then the turf cut with the Mantis . The normal blades kept choking with the grass but the furrow digging blades did the job....
...Planted out some dwarf French beans I’d started in pots and put the set grown onions onto the drying rack from the raised bed on plot 29. Ran the Mantis...
...the Mantis and dropped in 8 lettuce ‘Arctic King? that I?ve been growing in pots. This is a hardy lettuce so should be OK if the promised cold weather does...
...area will get potatoes and I’ll use the Mantis to draw trenches which will be cultivation enough. Chitting Chitting Casablanca Potatoes in the Porch Normally I’d have trays of potatoes...
...carburettor cleaning spray which has cured the problem with my Mantis tiller. I’m going to use it on the Merry Tiller as well. It runs well enough but I think...
...and then to fill it back up with compost. The next thing was to run the Mantis tiller up and down the trench to thoroughly mix and produce a really...
...them. Started by cutting the grass next to the comfrey bed down as low as the mower will go. Then I ran the Mantis tiller over the surface, basically slicing...
...thought I’d prepare the sweetcorn bed instead and got the Mantis out to mix in the compost on the surface. We”ve also had some limestone delivered to firm up some...