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What Implement Do You Recommend?

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Dan(WI)

08-06-2001 10:00:39




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Next year I want to plant about 1/2 acre of pumpkins. I currently have a 1963 John Deere 1010 gas tractor with a Deerborn two bottom plow. Currently the area is planted in grass that hasn't been cut for a few years. What ONE other implement would you recommend I get? I also have a 18Hp lawn tractor with a small disk unit from a David Bradley.




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3J's

08-24-2001 21:15:31




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 Re: What Implement Do You Recommend? in reply to Dan(WI), 08-06-2001 10:00:39  
What you really really are going to need is a big trailer to haul all those doggone punkin's.



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Robert in W. Mi.

08-06-2001 17:13:02




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 Re: What Implement Do You Recommend? in reply to Dan(WI), 08-06-2001 10:00:39  
Buy a Howard Rotavator and you won't even need your plow, let alone another tool!! I do a lot of custom Rotavateing for guys like you, that want to grow veggies or pumpkins. On my own farm, we only use a Rotavator for all tillage. We use a lot of mulch, and no spray at all. Nothing works in mulch and vegetation like a Rotavator, and you don't have to keep going over and over your fields like you do with other tools. This keeps compaction to a mininum, unlike a plow! Robert

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MrG

08-06-2001 14:21:27




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 Re: What Implement Do You Recommend? in reply to Dan(WI), 08-06-2001 10:00:39  
A tiller for your L&G



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paul

08-06-2001 12:07:16




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 Re: What Implement Do You Recommend? in reply to Dan(WI), 08-06-2001 10:00:39  
If you don't want to spray, I'd try getting the grass mowed down shorted so it decays a bit & passes through your plow easier. (I assume an older plow that does not have much clearence & would plug a lot with tall grass....)

I woulde sure plow in fall & let the ground mellow over winter.

Then disk it in spring (will take several passes with a light disk) when the ground dries out a bit so you don't pack it back hard. Then in a week or so I would harrow (aka drag) it to really level it out & kill the flush of weed sprouts, plant right away. If you go without chemicals, the harrowing at the right times is the key to getting the crop ahead of the weeds. If you plant the pumpkins with a corn planter, you can harrow again right before the pumpkins pop out of the ground with the spikes angled back. Knocks the weeds back a week, and doesn't affect the pumpkins much at all.

However, grass sprouts will be a problem since you are coming out of sod, and harrowing will not be as effective on that! The harrow gets rid of new sprouts.

--->Paul

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Brent

08-06-2001 10:14:38




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 Re: What Implement Do You Recommend? in reply to Dan(WI), 08-06-2001 10:00:39  
The first thing you are going to need to do (ASAP) is spray glyphosate (RoundUp or an equivalent) to kill all the vegetation in the area. It will take several weeks to kill and then if the surrounding area is still moist I would burn off the residue but make sure you pick a calm day and have planty of help and water around. Then plow it up with your 2 bottom to expose all the roots to the winter freezing. Next spring take your new disk and harrow over it and you should be good to go.

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