Planting Methods: By: Neuhart Gementiza
Planting Methods: By: Neuhart Gementiza
Planting Methods: By: Neuhart Gementiza
Methods
By: Neuhart Gementiza
What is planting method?
Planting Method is a way of how
you are going to plant the seeds
you have, it is either being planted
directly in the garden plot or by
planting the seeds in a starter like
a pot or vase.
Direct Planting
and
Indirect Planting
1. Direct Planting
Direct Planting is the method of planting
seeds directly in the garden plot.
There are three methods of planting crops by direct
seeding: broadcast, hill, and drill. Actual planting is
done either manually or with a mechanical planter.
Another technique, called dibbling, is a form of hill
planting.
Broadcast Method
Broadcasting or sabog tanim, also called scatter
planting, is a method of planting by which seeds
(or grains) are scattered over a well prepared soil.
There are no plant-to-plant spacing and
arrangement. As a result, there are plants which
may grow singly while others may occur in pair or
in bunches of several plants.
Broadcast Method
This planting method is common in crops with small
seeds that are capable of germination and sustained
growth without soil cover. Examples are rice ,
millets, mungbean, cowpea and forage crops.
However, there are no exact limitations. In addition
to small seeds like those of forage crops, relatively
large seeds including those of trees can be released
from a plane or helicopter. Such a broadcasting
technique is specially called aerial seeding.
Hill Method
Hill planting is a planting method by which plants
are arranged in equidistant rows and uniform hill-
to-hill distances within the row. It is also
called checkrow planting because on top view the
hills appear as arranged uniformly at the
intersections of squares of an imaginary
chekerboard.
Hill Method
Applied in direct seeding, this planting method consists
of dropping seeds in holes made by a dibbler (or
dibble) or any tool for digging small holes.
With furrows, the seeds are commonly dropped at the
bottom. But with mechanized farming, a combine
furrower-planter (more oftenly also with a fertilizer
applicator) is commonly used. Where a dibbler (or
dibble, example a pointed piece of wood or a stick) is
used to bore holes on the ground, hill planting is
otherwise called dibbling.
Drill Method
The drill method of planting is another technique
of direct seeding by which seeds are released
continuously in a row while moving forward at
uniform speed. The release of seeds is analogous
to pouring water from a bottle with a small
opening until water is completely exhausted. The
bottle is refilled, and the process is repeated again
and again.
Drill Method
Manual drilling applies to small seeds like rice,
sorghum, millet, and mungbean and is usually
done by hand alone. It can also be accomplished
by placing small, roundish seeds in a bottle with a
hole on the cover. The seeds are simply released
by tilting and slightly shaking the bottle so that the
seeds drop one after the other or in a cascade
through the hole and towards the ground
2. Indirect Planting