Spade culture

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The cultivation of the soil in the garden or in the field (field gardening ) by hand with the spade and other garden tools such as the hoe or the digging fork is called spade culture .

Basis of the spade culture: digging with the spade

Spading can be done more carefully than with agricultural machines, but this requires much more time and effort. That is why it has become largely meaningless in agriculture and in horticulture today. In Germany the spade culture was still used until the beginning of the 20th century . B. common in the cultivation of carrots or in viticulture .

In horticultural horticulture, however, it is still predominantly to be found.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversationslexikon, 6th edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig a. Mannheim 1905–1909, keyword: Spade culture.
  2. ↑ cf. on commercial horticulture : Ulrich Sachweh (Ed.): The gardener, Volume 3, tree nursery, fruit growing, seed growing, vegetable growing. 2nd Edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1986/1989, ISBN 3-8001-1148-9 , p. 43.
  3. ^ Werner Kuhn: Narrow track tractors . Podzun, Brilon 2001, ISBN 3-86133-272-8 , p. 6 f.