Crops Planted

1. Bed forming the Ridges

The Soil is formed into beds to allow the tractors and machinery working on it to stick to the same wheel marks at each pass, so limiting the soil damage, especially in the areas in which the potatoes are growing.

2. De-stoning the Beds

After bed forming the soil, the next step is then de-stoning.

A soil de-stoning machine in operation

This process moves all the stones in the bed away from where the potatoes are growing.

This allows the potatoes to grow without the stones causing misshapes and damage of the crop at harvest.

3. Planting of Seeds

A Potato Planter - the potatoes are planted in the soil at a specific depth and distance depending on variety. The seeds are spacedby using cups on the planter that spaces them evenly (see picture below).

Spacing Cups

A Potato Planter

The field after planting

The plants just after emergence to 30% ground cover