MitchellB
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- Joined
- Jul 22, 2012
- Messages
- 388
- Location
- Greensboro, NC
- Tractor
- 1958 861D Ford Powermaster Diesel & 2016 Husqvarna YTA24V48
The bank just accepted our offer on two adjoining lots behind our home. With any luck we will be closing next week. The land used to be an old church and parsonage build back in the 50s. The church has been demolished, but the little house still remains. The plan is to remodel the house and rent it out to pay for the purchase.
We are in the city limits, but the land totals a little over an acre and combined with our 2 lots we will have about 2 acres of dirt to play with. However our land is mostly wooded and I have always had poor luck growing a garden here and never enough room with all our trees to use my 8N tractor. However, the new lots we are buying are open land with only a few trees around the outside edges. It was basically a graveled parking lot for the old church, but is very over grown now with weeds, grass and vines covering it. Right after the church was taken down someone used to plow and farm the back 1/3 of the lot making a little garden every year. I remember seeing them plow it with their tractor, but it has not been turned in at least 4 or 5 years while it has sat vacant.
I hope to be able to clean the land up and put in our own little garden back there now. However, I need to find some attachments for my tractor. A bush hog would be nice, but I think once I get the land cleared the first time, my riding mower can keep it trimmed if I do it regularly every week or two. I know I will need a plow though; either a single (or double) bottom turning plow or middle buster (or both). I think a disc would be handy too.
You guys got any recommendations on what I need to get for basic farming attachments to make a small 1/3 acre garden using my 1949 8N Ford tractor?
We are also open to any and all ideas on what would be best to plant.