Gardens 2012

kmcconaughey · May 14, 2012

Wyatt, I like the feeder! Simple to install.

kshultz · May 14, 2012

Wyatt, That's a great idea! I'm gonna try that.

kshultz · May 21, 2012

Well we finally got the garden mostly planted.
I used the tiller and got one pass before the belt broke. So I had to use the disc and spike drag. It didn't turn out too bad, but the tiller does a much nicer job.

ljones · May 21, 2012

Here are some pictures of my granpas garden, I help him with it alot (we live next door)

This is the corn/bean feild

Other side of corn/bean feild

Carrots, lettuce, radishes, and other stuff

None of my cubs do the work, here is the main work horse

He cultivates the corn/beans with this

ljones · May 21, 2012

Pole beans, pepper plants, and other stuff.

Cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, and other stuff. Grape vines in background.

kmcconaughey · May 22, 2012

Lucas, very nice garden!

That's encroaching on small scale farming category.

wshytle · May 22, 2012

Lucas-

In the pic with the carrots, lettuce, etc. is there a reason for it being in the middle surrounded by corn? I never thought of it but the rabbits might think there's only corn there so they keep on hopping????

I bet granpa has a reason.

ljones · May 22, 2012

Wayne, before planting it he burns a lage fire over it to kill all of the weeds(it works), that is the safest location to burn without stating a wildfire.

wshytle · May 22, 2012

That makes sense. I use black plastic and cover an area to do the same thing. I bet the burning is a lot faster.

Thanks.

dross · May 22, 2012

My niebore at the last place I lived at has a 1/4 scale steam traction engine. he kills the grass in his garden by steaming the ground every year. He built a 4x8 box and pumps steam into it for about half an hour then moves on to the next spot. sounds goofy but he has a pretty clean garden.

kmcconaughey · May 23, 2012

Last night I helped out my sisters and their husbands prepare a new garden area. My sisters and their husbands live on adjacent properties. They had cut the trees and shrubs out and burned the brush. They used my parent's big 4x4 JD 5210 tractor to pull the mid sized stumps. I hauled my Original and walk behind tiller out last night to do the finish work. The Original was able to pull out 3" stumps!

I was surprised how well it pulled.

I then attempted to plow the area but the ground was so uneven that it was not possible with the short wheelbase to keep from diving and then pulling out of the ground. I then used my 18 year old MTD walk behind tiller. It worked great even with the all the roots, I just had to be quick to lift it when I'd hit the larger roots. The soil is quite nice here, nice black dirt and deep! When they were digging out the largest stump they dug down over 2 feet and had not dug below the top soil. Still lots of sticks and roots to clean out but it's looking great. Here's some photos my sister took with her iphone. She used an app on a few of them to make the photos look old.

All done and ready to load up.

ljones · May 23, 2012

Kraig, you need a rear tiller for one of you 125s.

kmcconaughey · May 23, 2012

Lucas, no I don't. The walk behind is more flexible. I'm not a fan of the Cub Cadet rear mount tiller. Besides, I do have this Cub Cadet tiller and the AC-620: