Corn row cultivator mounting positions ideas needed.

[BrianR]

I am having a lot of problems with lack of rain here too. 1/2 acre of sweet corn never even got out of the ground. I planted it just as the dry spell started, and never received any rain. I think 10 plants actually germinated then died.

My smaller garden, the corn was able to be watered so it did grow. I was able to cultivate 1 time and now the weeds are as tall as the corn, but the corn only got about 4ft tall before the June 29th storms blew it all over. At any rate I still miraculously have some corn to eat right now!

 

[GreenElephant]

You're right about the grass. Once it gets too big, the cultivator is just a giant grass catcher. But Otherwise it works like a champ. Secret is to keeping the grass down. Also, the 1 1/4 shanks that hold the spring tines will fit into the brackets of other implements. So you can find multible uses. I like to use it for field cultivating, to scratch in broadcast sown small grains, to rip up grass (points not sweeps). Looking back to cultivate is less fun than looking forward, so if your tractor has a body mount cultivator, that's the way I'd go for corn. But you can still use the Ferguson to plow out your tire tracks. It's a great implement. Wish I had one more shank for mine! Cheers. Jim