Spidmot professional manual rootball press

Spidmot, a clod press designed by and for market gardeners

A clod press carefully developed for greater efficiency and speed, available in three clod sizes to suit all types of market gardening. Designed and manufactured at Les Jardins de la Valette. The Spidmot and Spidsem models meet the specific requirements of diversified market gardening, offering an adaptable, high-performance solution for all growers.

Professional manual clod press on Spidplant table

What's the point of a new press?

  
Producing your own plants can be a laborious task when
you're not equipped. To this day, many market gardeners
find themselves unable to cope with commercial products. They
use either gardeners' clod-makers that can only produce
a few clods at a time, or multicells that are difficult to fill
and unmold. For larger structures, there are modern
automatic clod-makers capable of producing thousands of
clods per hour, but they are often oversized for
small structures.

Spidmot aims to be the alternative, positioned in the middle of this range of presses.

Designed for market gardeners who want to be efficient and effective in their day-to-day work without losing quality or investing thousands of euros in oversized clodders.

As each crop requires special care, we have developed 3 sizes of balers.

From
the smallest clod to the largest, thanks to our different models adapted
to every need, forget about plates and other cumbersome buckets to
ensure efficient production of your plants. With our
tools specially designed for diversified market gardening, you can optimize
your production while considerably simplifying your
cultivation processes, allowing you to concentrate on what really matters
.

Spidmot 56

Produces 112 clods per tray.

  • salad
  • beet
  • onion
  • fennel
  • aromatic
  • turnip
  • ...

Spidmot 35

Makes 70 clods per tray.

  • cabbage
  • basil
  • chicory
  • ...

Spidmot 16

Makes 32 clods per tray.

  • squash
  • zucchini
  • pâtisson
  • cucumber
  • tomato
  • eggplant
  • bell pepper
  • peppers
  • ...

The different Spidmots

Manual vegetable seeder

Spidsem the optimized vegetable seeder for greater efficiency

The seeder combined with our Spidmot now allows you to sow all your seeds at once. With this new element, you can save precious time when sowing.

From now on, seeding without a pneumatic or complex seeder becomes a truly efficient and simplified task, allowing you to maximize your agricultural productivity.

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Why a manual vegetable seeder?

We've always wanted to create the Spidplant range using low-tech materials to facilitate repairs and modifications, avoid breakdowns and ensure that the product is still functional after many years.

At present, there are a number of seed drills on the market, such as the vacuum drills widely used in the USA, or needle drills.
However, both types of seeder use either pneumatics or a suction system, and are very noisy.

We chose to simply use gravity to bring the seeds perfectly into the center of each clod.

How to choose the ideal plate for your seedlings?

By vegetable

  • Basil: Plate B (6/7 seeds)
  • Beet: Plate D (1 seed)
  • Swiss chard: Plate C (1 seed)
  • Coriander: D plate (1 seed)
  • Shallot: Plate B (3/4 seeds)
  • Spinach:
  • Fennel (coated seed): Plate D (1 seed)
  • Lettuce (coated seed): Plate D (1 seed)
  • Onion: Plate B (3/4 seeds)
  • Leek: Plate B (3/4 seeds)
  • Radish: Plate B (2 seeds)
  • Arugula: Plate B (7/8 seeds)

Plate A: 2.5mm diameter, 1.5mm deep

Cabbage, Broccoli, Kale (1seed),

Roquette (2/3seeds)

Celery (1seed)

Plate B: 3mm diameter, 3mm deep

Arugula (7/8 seeds)

Basil (6/7 seeds)

Onion, scallion, leek ( 3/4 seeds)

Radish (2 seeds)

Turnip (3/4 seeds)

Plate C: 4.5mm diameter and 1.5mm depth

Swiss chard (1 seed)

Plate D: 5mm diameter, 3mm deep

Lettuce seed coated (1seed)

Beet (1seed)

Coriander (1seed)

Fennel seed coated ( 1seed)

Spinach (1seed)

Plate E: 7mm diameter, 3mm deep

Spinach (3 seeds)

Spidsem seed drills