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Re: Gardening with a tractor
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 23, 2004 at 08:14:34 from (64.228.12.41):
In Reply to: Gardening with a tractor posted by mark on February 23, 2004 at 05:52:55:
Mark: You are quite well equiped for doing a little more than a bit of gardening. I like to divide my garden into about 3 to 4 plots, 1 for the current years garden, next years garden, and the next and a fourth year is nice. You know what you're going to do with this years garden plot. Depending where you live warm or cold climate, plant a crop like buckwheat. Buckwheat is great for the northern areas as starts very agressively and crouds out just about every weed known. Just before it goes to seed, plow it down as a green manure crop. It will do wonders for the soil in building organic matter. It is also nice to do the same with the third year plot. I like the fourth year plot for fallow. All summer long you can dispose of your vegetable waste on this plot and keep disking it into the soil. After you get going that fourth plot is also last years garden so you just disk it often enough so last years old weeds don't get going. Gardening in this fashion keeps the hand weeding to a minamum, that one alone tends to make gardening much more rewarding. Remember first and formost every weed you let go to seed, is roughly 1000 new weeds next year. This spring as plant life starts to sprout keep your eye open for weeds and select the area for this years garden where the least weeds are. Most areas have weed identification books, that are valuable to help determine what you are dealing with. I will not go any further than this without knowing exactly where you are. I don't want to give a lot of useless advice. If you want drop me an e mail, I love gardening vegetables, also like to learn what other areas are doing. Some things work well in some areas and not so well in others. Why I even have three tractors just for this, on less than 2 acres. SA, 130 and 140.
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