Re: Re: Stupid question about Farmall 140

Posted by at_th_land on July 25, 2004 at 13:34:15 from (216.119.137.185):

In Reply to: Re: Stupid question about Farmall 140 posted by Hugh MacKay on July 25, 2004 at 13:10:48:

Hugh -

Sounds like you understand market gardens and the raised bed concepts. I visit many of the local old style row crop gardeners in the area (Houston, Tx) and none of them are really using what I would call a raised bed concept. Most of them were single row, using a Farmall with a center buster and discs to throw 2 hills. My thoughts were initially to get a newer tractor with a rotary tiller and fabricate a bed shaper to wind up with 3' beds on 5' centers. Then cultivate in the furrows. I thought using a Farmall with belly type cultivators would be easier than looking back at the drawbar. Cover crops and living mulches like the clovers and buckwheat would be grown and tilled in - then the beds reshaped and try to stay ahead of the weeds as needed. Some crops of course would be in and out before too much cultivating would be necessary.

Any general comments - and what type of gardening / farming do you do?

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