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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing

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To: Shoot1st who wrote (3052)	11/18/2019 3:29:38 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) of 3495

Shootie.. Kubota has good tiller attachments.. but (I realise this is a one off start up big till job maybe..) but over tilling is not good either.. It can cause hard pan.. You will have a good sized area and I would till prior to year one planting.. but read up on this en.wikipedia.org so you may decide to just rent a tiller attachment as needed.. When I went back to school after retiring from being a software cowboy.. I took landscaping at a local college 2 year deal... No tilling was all the rage... academics especially professed it caused hard pan down lower... this has not been my experience... That (subsurface hardpan) is what leads to erosion on hilly terrain.. my 8500 sq ft are pretty flat as I have continued the previous guy's work of terracing it.. (That was the reason for the concrete garbage cans I repurposed mentioned earlier here) This spring I tilled my potato area as I had first planted mustard as a potato beetle and other pest destroyer.. It provides green manure essentially and is anti pest add on that cannot be any greener :) .. So I tilled it in and it worked great... I tilled the area where the garlic had been as the taters go there next year and the garlic will go where the taters were this year.. Rotation Rotation Rotation :) Now I till in a lot a LOT of leaves and other plant material as natural compost... So far so good.. so when tilling I would say make sure you have LOTS of plant material going in... Also on a first till to help prevent weeds you may want to blow a lot of the material off for year one.. subsequently though just plow it back in and if you can blow leaves all over it in fall to till in bonus... We may be looking different economies of scale though.. as mentioned my plot is large for an urban (OK HUGE LOL) garden plot at 8500 Sqft.. not I use a little tiller attachment on my Stihl Kombi as I use the main tool which is awesome for my gardenbiz.. For first off jobs I usually rent a large rear tyne tiller from a Home depot... which would be similar to an attachment on your Kubota.. The Stihl is great also for doing a very shallow preplant till.. as I am planting by hand of course.. I am fast.. but fluffy soil is just easier :)) Again depends on your area under cultivation... Blackie

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