Gardners: What attachment makes rows after tiling?

[rww_94]

How do I make rows in my garden after tilling? Is there an effecive 3pt attachment? My dad has such a tool on his 2 wheel toro tiller.

 

[markie61]

Middle buster? Potato plow?
Try TSC .
Mark

 

[rdln]

How wide and deep?

I have accomplished this by running a spring tooth harrow after rototilling, this leaves v shaped grooves in the soil about 8 inches wide and 3 or 4 inches deep. but this and will bring the coarser particles of soil back up to the surface.

you can also use a cultipacker to push down the soil to form narrower and shallower grooves.

If you'd like to tinker with something homemade try cutting your desired "groove" shape out of heavy plywood and afix it to the rear door of you tiller so that it extends below the horizontal edge of the backdoor. You will probably need to weigh down the door to prevent wood teeth from riding on top.

 

[Worksmart]

rww 94 - try Agri-Supply . I just received a print catalog from them yesterday. Looks like they have just what you are looking for. They're called disc hillers. 3pt tool bar, wedges, clamps and the hillers are all available. Relatively inexpensive. Not sure if they are listed at the web site but the print catalog I received shows it in action. Chuck

 

[Hoeman00]

I have a 3 PT single row KK cultivator that I took off the extra sweeps and use it to cut the rows for hand seeding.
Then put sweeps back on and us to cultivate rows later.
I also use a 12 row Kinze corn planter to plant my sweetcorn patch. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[theboman]

I used a tater plow last year. Thinking about getting a one row cultivator this year...thinking.
The tater (potato) plow does a great job at this by making a nice deep V in the tilled up soil. You only make one row at a time but with a cultivator you can make several.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Unless you got a really big garden the best way to do it is to get acouple of long stakes with plenty of nylon string,put one stake in the ground where you want your row to start and put the other where you want the row to end,than use a hoe corner[edge]and make your furrow along that string.Then get you a couple of lengths of stick or rod of some sort the length that you want your rows apart,one of these can be used for marking how far from the edge of your garden you want your rows to start,then lather rinse and repeat.You [in a veg. garden],never plant every thing at the same time,i.e.,I now have some things planted but it is too early for most things.If you put rows in your whole garden now,you'll just have to do it again when you till again latter when you plant corn and tomatoes,plus you don't get any compaction from the tractor tires,now if you are planting an acre of corn or potatoes at once than maybe a potato plow is what you need. RICHARD GAUTHIER