Whats the best setup

The tool I use most I had fabricated. I went to a farm equipment dealer and purchased S-type cultivator tines, with clamps, points, etc. Each one will cost about $10. Cdn. I had a welder build me a frame for my rear hitch, with two cross tool bars 5/8" x 2" for mounting tines on. I have 12 of these tines. I can line them up on the two tool bars on 6" spacing for field cultivation, and can rearrange them for row work. I have points and 6" sweeps for all tines. I also have 3 - V type hiller hoes that I can use if I want to make rows. These S-tines are very rugged, they will also go deep enough if you let them for 12 of them to stop your 9N dead in its tracks. The clamps for these tines are designed for clamping to a tool bar that is 1/2" x 2". I personally like 5/8" x 2", tines stay tight better and make your frame just a bit more rugged.

If you have any questions on details of this e mail me. I did have some problms in beginning with frame not being rugged enough. I leave my cultivator on tractor all summer, have a box that clamps on top if I need to haul something. I even have a hitch on back so I can hitch to trailer without removing cultivator.

Depending on what you are growing, you might be able to use your walk-behind tiller to cultivate between tomato rows, etc. if you dont get a tractor cultivator. You will only have to skim the surface with the rototiller. I would say forget about a rototiller on a 9N, they won't run slow enough.

When I said "good shape" all I meant was like Unimog said below, that he had already done a garden there and it would not be like breaking new ground in sod or overgrown weeds so he should have an easier time of it.

These guys with tillers are something else, I have two neighbours that go until it's just like flour, and first good rain it's cement. I had one neighbour, did in row tilling, I think every second day all summer. Come fall he couldn't get his potatoes out of ground. He was out with a pick, digging them. He stopped me asked if I would come over with my potato digger. I told him potato digger won't touch that hard soil. I told him to wait for a rain I'd come with tractor and 3 chisel plow type shanks I have on hitch. When we finally did it he didn't have a potato larger than a golf ball. He couldn't understand how I had such a great crop of potatoes just across the fence. I had fertilized his ground with tractor spreader same time and rate as my own. I told him to scrap the tiller, I could see he was doubting me. I said go over with your fork and dig a hill of my potatoes. You could get most potatoes under a plant with about 3 swipes of bare hand in my field. The next year same old same old. The part that got me about this guy was he probably had more money tied up in a Troy tiller, 3' walk behind snow blower and ride on lawn mower. than I have in my Farmall SA mower, snow blade, plow and cultivator. I'll admit I have more implements than that, but they are just left over from farming, and the 4 mentioned are the ones I use 90% of the time. I could sell the rest, however times might get tough and I may want to go farming again.

I use the tool bar to chisel plow (I add two more shanks than are in the photo; it's shown set up for irrigation re-marking. You don't really need the gauge wheels for plowing), then I drop the toolbar and mount a disc for the second pass. Finally I'll drag a couple of sections of spike-tooth harrow over the field. After your crops start you can go back to three shanks on the toolbar with cultivating sweeps for weed control; just make sure that your rows are planted to fit the wheel spacing on your tractor (we use 2 1/2 foot spacing out here). :-)

I use the tool bar to chisel plow (I add two more shanks than are in the photo; it's shown set up for irrigation re-marking. You don't really need the gauge wheels for plowing), then I drop the toolbar and mount a disc for the second pass. Finally I'll drag a couple of sections of spike-tooth harrow over the field. After your crops start you can go back to three shanks on the toolbar with cultivating sweeps for weed control; just make sure that your rows are planted to fit the wheel spacing on your tractor (we use 2 1/2 foot spacing out here). :-)

I would say plow in the fall, disk in the spring and then harrow.

You might also add lots of leaves or straw after plowing in the fall, then disk it in.

As to walk behind rear tine tillers, I have used both a Troybilt and a BCS. The BCS is by far the easiest on a person, and does a much better job--in my opinion.