Gardens/Equipment?

Yall gou any pics of your past gardens and your garden/produce equiptment? I have a produce stand and i sell sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, zuchenie, peppers, watermelons, and pumpkins. I also grow radisheses, brochily, greenbeans, and ockra for just us.My olny piece of equipment is a craftsman self propelled rear tined tiller a rake and a couple hoes. Im hopeing to get a 2 wheel tractor or a small tractor to cultivate with and some other equiptment for my own opperation in sted of using my dads stuff. you know when your a kid you want your own line of equiptment. Thats enough about my stuff how about yours?

My family raises sustainably grown lettuce, radishes, cabbage, carrots, onions, tomatoes, okra etc. etc. Our hard clay is a challenge because crops frequently get drowned out in spring rains, but I'm hoping to do some ditching and bed shaping with a rotary plow. As I mentioned in the walk-behind post, we've got Gravely and BCS walkbehinds for gardening, and we also use several Earthway seeders to plant many crops.

think we're gonna do the greenhouse gardening this year, gotta git it built yet, thinkin one about 30-40 ft long

   Hello R W     We have a 60' x150'  garden by the house, for vegatables, 20 fruit trees, and several BERRY patches.  We also rent 3+ acres next door for sweet corn squash, and pumpkins. We use almost all AC equipment D17 to haul manure  D15 to load it  D19D to plow and a 1200 field cultivator,  D10 with 2 row disk opener corn planter,  Allis G for cultivation and herbiside sprayer,   AC 5020 with 6'rototillerfor garden prep and 14" rear tine Sears tiller for rows.  also 175 AC with 904 haybine and 444 baler with 4  restored Allis hay racks, with all lumber cut from USED TELEPHONE POLES.

Love those butternut squash! Wish mine would get that big!
I have a Seaman Tiller on my WD. How deep do you go with yours on the veggie gardens?
How thick you spread the muck?
I'm wondering if I go too deep sometimes. No clay here..black sandy loam....built up over the years with mulch......red sand below that.
You sure have enuff equipment!!!

Charlie is that a wd or a wd45?

High density seeder for salad greens...plants 20 rows in the same bed as my precision seeder plants 4 rows:



Home made boom sprayer and 275 gal tank of hydrolyzed fish:  Booms are 35 feet wide total, so I can foliar feed 7 growing beds in one pass

1948 G with a new Kubota 23hp diesel, live hydraulics, 12vdc, instrument cluster and key start. Uses 1-2 gallons of fuel for 8 hours of cultivating



Business end of the G cultivating asparagus in March

What is the hp rateing of that G diesel?

4 row precision seeder. In this photo I am using it with the clod pushers down on the 2 outside rows to cut furrows for onion transplants.  By using the seeder to cut furrows for my transplants, I know the row spacing is always proper for cultivating with the G



Side view of seeder.  Clod pushers in front, dual disc openers, V-wheel tampers.  PTO turns vacuum pump which gives excellent singulation of seeds. I use it to seed everything from tiny herb seeds to winter squash.  By changing seed plates, and the gear ratio it will seed at anywhere from 1.5 inch to 6 feet spacing in the rows.  I usually set it to slightly overseed so 2-3 seeds drop instead of 1.

Steve, that is sweet looking. Here is my 1st ever tractor. A Case195. Used it when I was still farming 1.5 urban acres in PDX.  Was perfect for getting right up to the wall in my greenhouses.

Steve in NJ wrote: I don't have a garden, but does a Garden Tractor quailfy in the equipment catagory? Boy, I've been havin' a ball plowing snow with this thing this year! This is the first year in a loooong time that I'm not minding the snow storms. And boy, we've been getting snow storms one right after another! Snowin' like crazy right now.... Steve@B&B

Edited by singingpig - 27 Jan 2011 at 2:00pm

7 foot wide Maschio B series tiller. Almost never gets used.  As my soil has improved through proper management, chisel, disc and cultipacker gives a perfect seedbed in a fraction of the time using a fraction of the fuel.  This thing is a beast, though.  It gets most of its use grinding in cover crops and crop residue before chiseling or discing.



Wind guage so I know how to set the irrigation:

pallet of product ready to be loaded into the truck for delivery

Brad,

How come your soil is so white and cold looking?

MikeSMN wrote: Mr. Singing Pig - what brand precision seeder do you have there?

Matermacc.  Works like a dream.