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Mechanical weeding

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Mechanical weeding

The scarifying rake attached to this tractor is used to help with weed control of this broccoli crop on the Kāpiti Coast. The rake damages or destroys weed seedlings and helps to aerate the soil.

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Ivor Earp-Jones

by Ivor Earp-Jones

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Other outdoor crops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20010/mechanical-weeding (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.