Cultivator for crop rows

[AmericanTractorDriver]

Hello,

We grew our first garden this year, and are planning to "work smarter, not harder" next year. We're able to use a Kubota M5040 if needed.

I have been looking at picking up a single-row cultivator. The reason for a single-row is simply that I see 15 of these used for every 1 used double-row.

The tractor tires are spaced approximately as follows:

Front: 47" inside, 69" outside
Rear: 42" inside, 81" outside <- Must have made a typo when saving the dimensions in my phone.... looking for tire width online, no luck yet.

Does this mean that if we use a single row cultivator, our rows have to be less than 24" apart or greater than 41" apart? I think anywhere in between about 20 and 44, they would fall under the tire paths? It looks like with a double-row cultivator, we could do a 30" row spacing?

Thank you! I hope I am looking at this correctly... But if I am, I wonder why there are so many single row cultivators and so few double-rows.

 

[bp fick]

I have to plant at 42" or 44" if I want to use this single row cultivator. I love it as a field cultivator and wouldn't trade it for anything, for THAT purpose, but as a row cultivator, in a garden, it isn't a really shiny penny in the pond.
Having grown up on Farmall and Massey Harris tractors where one cultivated while looking down between your feet, the 3 pt thing isn't that great for gardening. To each his own.
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[AmericanTractorDriver]

I have to plant at 42" or 44" if I want to use this single row cultivator. I love it as a field cultivator and wouldn't trade it for anything, for THAT purpose, but as a row cultivator, in a garden, it isn't a really shiny penny in the pond.
Having grown up on Farmall and Massey Harris tractors where one cultivated while looking down between your feet, the 3 pt thing isn't that great for gardening. To each his own.
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Thanks for the info - that is essentially identical to the ones I've been looking at.

I wonder if we could set it up to simulate a 2-row cultivator by moving the tines around? Maybe not because of the gap in the middle.

That said, if we used a 3pt 2-row cultivator, we could plant on 30" spacings, right? 30" would fit within all tractor tires, and 90" would fit outside all tires.

Anyone ever done similar to 30" spacing for a garden with a "single row" cultivator?