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Need some advice on fall/spring plowing and discing...

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Will Herring

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So I have a small garden plot, part of which has been worked before, and some sod I intend to expand the garden into. I have a three bottom plow and a disc. Should I:

1) Plow this Fall, then come Spring disc it before planting, OR

2) Plow this Fall, and then go and disc it this Fall, and then disc again come Spring before planting.

This is brown soil (with a bit of clay). Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Plow in the fall and leave it lay over the winter unless you are planning a cover crop. Disk it as few times as possible in the spring. A good drag behind your disk will limit your need to over till the soil.
 
It might be a good idea to run the disc over the ground a few times before you plow since you have some sod on part of it. Before I started doing cover crops I would plow in the fall and sometimes run a disc over it a few times just because our winters here haven't had any deep freezes to help bust the clods up, but in the spring I would get out my 9 shank Ferguson tiller or Field cultivator as Ford called and work the ground with it instead. I tried to use the disc as little as possible.
 
Plow and disc in the fall discing in the spring can compact the soil too much just dont git in a hurry in the spring working garden when its too wet will make it clody gots to be patient in the spring
 
I did disc the sod once already to try and loosen it up prior to plowing, since I hope to get the plowing done in the next week or two (it rained yesterday, so it needs to dry up again).
 
Would it break the bank if you were to plow and disc now,then plow and disc again in the spring? Get everything turned over and smoothed down this fall,then it should plow smooth as glass in the spring.
 
I would plow it this fall and then leave it be until spring. Also disking the sod will make it plow worse. If you had left it be and set your plows correctly then it would have turned under easily.

Disking just loosens the ground up and then the rolling cutter does not work as well.
 
I can do any combination of plowing and discing now and again later. My only gripe with discing right after I plow it (from sod) is that it is so rough to drive over.
 
If it were already established garden, I would plant tillage radishes,
starting about August 15, as a cover crop, they grow big tap roots,
and then rot, when hard freeze arrives. In the spring, ground is like
smooth as silk to plow.
 
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