grandpa Love
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We plowed the garden yesterday, when we got to the middle we ended up with a big ditch! Lots of passes with a disk and it's almost level. What should we do different next year?
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Moonlite37
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Plow less deep on the last couple passes, And you may also try turning some dirt back in. That is the reason for a two way plow. You likely you did ok with the disc
MARK ROBKE
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When I plow it 'apart' like you did, I always lightly 'throw the middle back together' by holding the plow at 1/2 depth. The next year/time I plow, I throw it together. Sometimes I take the rear scraper blade and level the dirt and then disc it. If the piece of ground is not too big, like a garden, I just 'throw' it one way. Mark.
Deere Mark
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It is called a dead furrow. What you could do next year is start in the middle of the field and fill in the dead furrow. If you are plowing this field every year; one year you create the dead furrow and the next year you fill it in.
formerly ny bill
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Take a lighter cut the last time through.
Next year, start at the dead furrow in the middle and plow to the outsides of the garden. Alternate plowing directions each year. With a larger semimount plow, you could raise the back end of the plow relative to the front end to avoid digging as deep a dead furrow at the finish.
This is the me and the semimounted plow I used in the 1970s. Got so good at hiding the dead furrow that I couldn't find where to start the back furrow the next year.
Next year, start at the dead furrow in the middle and plow to the outsides of the garden. Alternate plowing directions each year. With a larger semimount plow, you could raise the back end of the plow relative to the front end to avoid digging as deep a dead furrow at the finish.
This is the me and the semimounted plow I used in the 1970s. Got so good at hiding the dead furrow that I couldn't find where to start the back furrow the next year.
BonaparteSouth
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looks to be not that large of garden. I would have plowed it all one way. dead head back each time. when we plow close quarters as in back yards we plow to end and back down the furrow to plow next strip.
rustred
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just to answer your question ,.. you would raise the plow some and do a fill in pass at the end. myself i would have started in the middle and had the furrows at the out side ,as that way when you go with the disc it pretty much fills in the furrow also. meaning just let the out side disc through the dirt back it. and then you have a nice neat edge.
buickanddeere
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For all there is . Just one way plough it .
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
That was one of the best parts of ploughing with the old three wheel trail ploughs. You could raise the plough with the levers one notch on each of the final passes until the plough was only cutting a inch deep, and there was very little dead furrow. A trailing plough isnt influenced by the motion of the tractor the same way a fully mounted plough is. Ploughing can be a art form
J.Wondergem
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- Rockford, Mi.
We always plowed the garden one way and the opposite way the next year. The fields, we had back furrows and dead furrows. The second year the back furrows were where the dead furrows where and dead furrows where the the back furrows where.
Richard G.
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You need a Chattanooga reversible plow.
This was given to me years ago.
Plows the same way when you turn around and go back.
Renee on the tractor and you on the plow.
This was given to me years ago.
Plows the same way when you turn around and go back.
Renee on the tractor and you on the plow.
caterpillar guy
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I always on new land I farmed plowed it in so the dirt was thrown towards the center of the field then after that would plow one way each year to keep it level. With the chisel plow I don't worry about it. that could be your next toy to have is a chisel plow. they look like a fiel cultivator only heavier shanks on it. About an inch thick and maybe 1-1/2-2inches wide with a spike or twisted shovel on them. twisted 3or 4 inch shovel moves more dirt and covers more trash. Then just disk to loosen up in spring. They will work dirt from scratch to foot deep.
Blackhole49
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- White Lake MI
When I had a similar sized garden, I just plowed all one way then reversed the next year. Did that for many years.
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