D.B. farming, first go at it.

Ok so I have a david bradley 2 wheel walk-behind tractor with quite a few attachments for it. And me being new to this type of garden prepping (used to the roto-tiller) I figured I'd ask some ppl with experience. I'm just planning on planting some cover crop for the rest of this year but next year it's on.....
But anyway back to the point of the post I have just used the turning plow to basically flip over the sod layer and now its sat for 2 days so far and contemplating what I should use on it next??? I'll post some pics of the area.[/url]
 
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Got a bit of my little champ there to the left.... but I have alot of burmuda grass sod, not sure if you guys know that grass but it's a nightmare for gardening. And the rototiller is like viagrah for that grass. Trust me. Anyway this year I said F it herbicide to the burmuda grass sod... and it died real good before I turned the ground over. So next thing I think I should do is either disc it or harrow the burmuda grass out of the top soil "sod". What do you guys with d.b. experience think? I have a bottom plow,harrow,disc,cultipacker, chisel/cultivator plow, and a few other attachments I'm not sure what to call..... some are for a four wheel d.b. I believe, 3pt hitch, 3pt chisel/cultivator plow?, and a pull behind chisel plow?.
Either way which hunk of iron should I run threw that next?
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Another thought. It looks awfully rough. Do you have a 4wd pickup? If so, drive it back and forth to break up the
large clumps, pack them down, etc. Then use the disc. The little d.b. will have a rough time of it with the large
clumps.

Looks like it did a great job of plowing. Since you sprayed the grass, would not worry about getting it cleaned out,
just bury it.
 
Gotchya. Thanks for the info on the step by step prepping. I knew the bottom plow was first but didn't know what to use next to successfully bust it all up. And yeah it did a great job of turning that over, with me pushing hard behind it lol. But over all for what it is it make it happen. Looks as if a tractor came threw with 2or 3 passes. I think it was 30-35 passes I made. I know very dedicated, but only to get rid of this dang burmuda grass and grow something worth a darn. But I have to disagree with you on the burying the grass rubbish. Do you have experience with burmuda grass? It's like the cockroach of grasses, can survive a nuclear blast. It's probably the first grass species that started growing over there in Chernobyl after their mishap with the nuclear goodies.lol. but all seriousness it's a vigorous rhizome grass that doesn't take no for an answer.

I was thinking once I get the clumps busted up I could use the spike harrow to basically rake the majority of the material out of the soil and go from there cuz I know how this grass works. You think this plan of action would get a good amount of the grass material out? I dont mind spending the time on it. I have a swimming pool right behind me in that picture to jump into once im sweating real good.
 
I'd let it lay until it got a little rain on it and then disc it. I don't see how you could get a plow through it.
 
Yeah I was thinking I should let it rain on it once. We got about a 1/16 yesterday but the sun came out after so that was just mostly a steam bath. But I'll wait for a good rain to saturate it then dry out so it's good and crumbly when I come threw with the disc. And til then I'll let my 2 red chickens do their work on it Haha. They have been hitting it morning and evening when it's all shady. But the clumps are pretty big for them. It's funny watching them jump around from clump to clump looking for bugs and grubs.
 
(quoted from post at 15:27:51 07/08/20) I'd let it lay until it got a little rain on it and then disc it. I don't see how you could get a plow through it.
tw the ground you see was plowed already with the bottom plow in the picture so I know I wouldnt plow that again....
 
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So here are the majority of the implements I have to work with. Like i said some are for other garden tractors but I assume I can still use most of them.
 

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