Bob: I've been growing vegetables for 50 years and never owned a roto tiller. I've seen a lot more soil structure damaged with roto tillers than conventional tillage. I grew potatoes and rutabagas commercially plus a garden of other vegetables.
I once had a neighbor call, home gardener and he owned a walk behind rear tine tiller. He told me he could see my garden and how much better it was than his. He wanted me to plow and disk his garden, as he had a real compaction problem. I plowed it about 10" deep then disked it, disking down some organic matter he had. When I was done, in my opinion it was ready to plant. He then spent half the day on this with his tiller.
Later that summer he suggested his soil was packed hard, almost like concrete. I said, "you created the concrete that is your problem. Industry manufactures concrete by grinding the right soil mix to a dust, you did the same with the tiller. When the rain hit it you had a poor quality concrete." I told him to shove the tiller over a cliff.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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