I just bought the KK XB middle buster from Tractor Supply Co this morning. I already have 3 established gardens that I maintain (2 for myself and 1 for a friend). I tossed it on the BX2200 this morning and tested it out. It digs really deep with the potato plow on it. I have bar tires on the tractor and have the toolbar set almost vertical on the plow. So far I like this little implement. Can for-see using it to bury cable in the near future!! It was $139.00 in Ohio.
For the past several years I have been mowing off the garden plants in the fall, then waiting a month or so and pulling my 50" wide homebuilt chisel plow through it to mix up the soil without turning it over and destroying the soil structure. This year I want to subsoil all of the gardens and leave them untouched until spring. Then go in with the chisel plow and rip em up, disc em down and plant.
My implement inventory is as follows:
- House 14" one bottom plow with coulter and depth control
- 50" wide homebuilt rigid shank chisel plow (5 shank) with v-sweeps
- 50" wide single gang finishing disc (modified Sears disc from 1972)
- John Deere flex 71 no-till planter (1-row) with plates for beans, peas, sunflower, soybeans and corn.
- 1 Row row crop cultivator with C-Shanks
- John Deere 290 2-row planter pull behind
- Homebuilt 3-pt mounted 33 gallon 12ft folding boom sprayer
My plan for next year is to no-till a new area of yard, for sweet corn. I will spray with Round-up, no-till plant the sweet corn with the Flex 71 planter, then go back in and spray with a tank mix of liquid fert and Prowl 3.3EC after the corn comes up. This will keep any future weeds from coming up until the corn canopy fills out.
Take care and happy gardening!!
Brian