Tulip planting on the clay soil with new equipment 2011 Posted on 27-10-2011 at 15:54
Jan de Wit en Zonen B.V. has purchased a new planting machine for planting the tulip bulbs in the clay soil. This machine replaces the old planting machine after 11 years of service. The old planting machine was already used for planting in nets. The new machine will also be used for this, but the technique has been refined.
The planting machine has been purchased because we have switched to broadcast sowing now (scattering the bulbs more or less evenly over a whole area). We have chosen to plant on 1.50 m because the yield is higher then, on average. The bulbs are planted in a double net, in which the bulbs lie in the soil.
Over the past years this system has proved itself to be the best system for planting flower bulbs. When harvesting, the bulbs are pulled from the soil together with the net. The work that had to be done manually in the past, can now be done by machines.
The machine is also equipped with a counting machine so that the planted quantity can be calculated exactly, as a result of which we can calculate more precisely which yield can be expected during the harvesting.
The movies show the planting, placing a new net, and the view from the machine that shows how the tulips find their way through the machine into the ground.
