This is not about dancing in the garden beds, but about an original garden-and-vegetable tool that makes labor-intensive work—performed for ages with a spade (at best—with special forks)—possible even for elderly people (the author and test person of this design is already over seventy). Despite the “tortured” “formula of invention” by the patent office—“A device Read more…
The magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” has published many thematic selections about simple but effective homemade devices that no smallholding can do without (see, for example, issues 7’92, 5’95, 6’97, 6’99). However, interest in such designs has not faded even today, as shown by the editorial mail. V. Solonin — inventor and rationalizer, one of our magazine’s active Read more…
Many rural residents who previously did not keep cows on their farm are forced to get them now. After all, the cow has always helped a person survive difficult times by providing milk. But the owner also needs to take care of the animal so that the cow is well-fed both in the stall period. Read more…
Strawberry, wild strawberry… They are often confused with one another, but the best of berries, by right, are considered to be strawberries. Bright, juicy, fragrant. With sugar and cream they make an excellent dessert. Jam, jelly, and medicinal pick-ups are also wonderful—especially from strawberries. Strawberries have an almost rounded-conical shape, a whitish coloring over more Read more…
Many owners of motorized equipment strive to use their available vehicles as effectively as possible. When building various structures, improving garden plots, and doing other household work, it becomes necessary to move various loads over short distances. In a number of cases, this task is within the power of a motorcycle with a sidecar trailer. Read more…
Today we introduce readers to two such works, interesting above all because they address an area of home farming that is still only weakly covered by technical creativity: beekeeping. For it, club members of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren of the Bauman District in Moscow have created a very convenient original hive for use, Read more…
One day I came across an article “Vitamin jack” (“M-K” No. 7 for 1985), where the author writes that when preparing juices he crushes apples with a wooden mallet in a small barrel. His argument in favor of such a technology — purely manual — seemed unconvincing to me. Therefore, I decided to share with Read more…
Ambrosia… This noxious weed, widespread in the southern regions of our country, causes a lot of trouble for farmers. Rapidly spreading in the open, it severely depletes and dries out the soil, and in fields it chokes out cultivated plants. Ambrosia is a frequent cause of poisoning in domestic animals, and in humans its caustic Read more…
For a thrifty, handy owner, everything is always at hand. There may even be a homemade mini tractor, not to mention mowers-threshers and other motor and electric helpers. And this is quite understandable: with such equipment you really will not be at a loss anywhere. A worthy place here is occupied, helping to keep the Read more…
— How to explain such a “hybrid” — a two-wheeled mini-tractor and a single-axle cargo cart on a rigid hitch? Doesn’t a mini-tractor have more capabilities with the same four wheels? — those who got acquainted with my mechanical assistant usually asked. The question is not idle: it reflects interest in the features of the Read more…
