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Seedbed preperation

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Charlie in NY

10-17-2006 10:32:48




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I'm converting a section of 30 year fallow grazing meadow into a crop/garden spot. It will only be about an acre, total. The soil is 6" of loam on top of hard silt, not quite clay. I intend on sewing some winter crop and tilling that in, and the chicken hay/straw bedding is composting and will be an ongoing addition; and we have a lot of neighbors with horses who I am sure will be glad to contribute manure. I have a Ford 640 (a tad larger than the N series) and have sub-soiled to 14" (found LOTS of rocks)and then turned the sod over with a two bottom plow. I want to plant corn & squash in the new section, having restored the existing garden nearer the house, and I've got a Troy-Bilt Horse for light surface cultivation and weeding during the growing season. What I need now is something to get the green fertilizer worked into the soil and the bed prepared for planting.

Is a disc harrow what I should be looking for to do this? Smooth or notched discs? I had an earlier thread on a narrow horse drawn cultivator, and I now see that would not be my answer even if it was complete.

Thanks for your help.

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Brendon

10-18-2006 04:37:34




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 Re: Seedbed preperation in reply to Charlie in NY, 10-17-2006 10:32:48  
If you decide on a disk, get the heaviest one that your tractor can lift. Or, maybe look for a heavy, narrow pull-type. Maximum wieght per blade is needed to disk down green manure crops. I have a light King Kutter 5-footer that I use with my Deere model M since it is all the tractor can lift. There is just not enough weight there to work down any amount of plant material. A few inches is all it will penetrate into clean firm ground even with several passes and it tends to ride over clumps of trash and heavy residue. It does have notched blades in the front which do help the cutting ability. I have never felt that notched blades on the back would help me out. When I adjust the disk to get a level surface there is little weight on the back gangs and they really don't do much cutting. They are more just to pull the soil back in and also to knock down the clods and slabs brought up by the front gangs. Notched blades in the back might turn up more slabs that remain unbroken.

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mjbrown

10-17-2006 18:08:32




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 Re: Seedbed preperation in reply to Charlie in NY, 10-17-2006 10:32:48  
I used to work our garden over with one of those cultivators for a 9N (on a 9N). We had extra shanks and shovels and it worked up a good seed bed. If you just plowed it, let it lie over winter and drag it in spring. Tractor supply has some S tine units I think. Kinda late here in NY for wheat. You won't get enough top growth now to amount to anything green manure wise.



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Matt Page

10-17-2006 12:12:42




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 Re: Seedbed preperation in reply to Charlie in NY, 10-17-2006 10:32:48  
I agree with the winter wheat, also check the ph and get the lime out this Fall, and give the wheat what fertilizer it needs to make you lots of green to disk in next Spring. Matt.



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Allan In NE

10-17-2006 11:59:23




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 Re: Seedbed preperation in reply to Charlie in NY, 10-17-2006 10:32:48  
Ya kinda got the cart ahead of the mule. Manure should have been applied first, then plowed down. :>)

Whatever works tho,

Allan



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RC farms

10-17-2006 10:45:08




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 Re: Seedbed preperation in reply to Charlie in NY, 10-17-2006 10:32:48  
I garden about 6 acres, sweetcorn, melons, greenbeans, tomatoes...and for the past two years I disc everything under, broadcast winter wheat, go over it again with the disc,,turn it under two weeks before I plant... I plan to add some clover in Feb.



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