Gardens 2012

[kmcconaughey]

Wyatt, I like the feeder! Simple to install.

 

[kshultz]

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

 

[kshultz]

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]

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]

Pole beans, pepper plants, and other stuff.

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

 

[kmcconaughey]

Lucas, very nice garden!

That's encroaching on small scale farming category.

 

[wshytle]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[kmcconaughey]

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:

 

[aaytay]

That's he's going to sell to his good-friend Art for $200...

 

[kmcconaughey]

$450 and it (just the tiller) is yours...

 

[ljones]

Kraig, nice setup with the Allis. What is up with the fender deck transaxel in the background?

Grandpa had the super A out cultivating today.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Lucas, thanks. That is a 107 parts chassis. There's several NF parts tractors there just out of view.

 

[wcompton]

The rain is treating the garden quite well. Strawberries are doing surprisingly well for barely putting any work into them.

 

[jbaker]

Heres a couple of shots from ours

Potatos here about 350 plants

and here is the sweet corn starting to come up, 14 rows with about 50 plants each

 

[jbaker]

We have had no rain but I keep the garden watered

Here is one of our garlics

heres a shot from the roof the left side next to goats grazing is our potatos and our corn is 2 and 3 feet.

and Mr. Speckles after a bath just chillin