Newly Laid Off - Now A Farmer

[Leewd]

Hola! I've owned an avocado orchard for 11 years but mostly chipped at it on the weekends. It looks like it's my only source of income now so it's necessary to make this orchard profitable now so I am trying to clear an old section of non-productive trees and replant with a new avocado variety. Herein lies my problem. I'm grown up a suburbanite and have very little knowledge of AG. I own a John Deere 3320 tractor with front loader, gannon box, Bearcat chipper and a pothole digger. I've been using it to dig out and push over the trees but now what. I want to level the land, do a deep ripping to dig up the old irrigation pipe and loosen the subsoil, trench for new pipe and then put in a cover crop to tame the weeds before I drill and plant new trees next spring. Common culture is to plant the trees on a mound for better drainage although I don't think I need to with the DG soil I have (sandy loam).

How do I do this, what implements do I need and what order to I use them in?
* Rake the surface to remove weeds/roots/large pcs.
* Rip 12" - 18" deep
* Disc
* Rake to break up clods?
* Form mounded rows
* Trench and install irrigation piping
* Seed drill or broadcast and rake cover crop?
* Drill holes for new trees
Thanks in advance

 

[Muhammad]

Welcome to TBN.

 

[DAY]

Welcome, and hie thyself to your County Extension Agent for answers to all your questions, and some you didn't know you had!
He/she is paid by your tax dollars, and is your most obedient servant. :thumbsup:

Then, go find the folks working similar orchards in the neighborhood, and ask can you please watch, listen, and learn.

Not that we won't have loads of advice for you, but unless the poster is an avocado farmer in California, take our answers with a grain of salt:laughing:

 

[creekbend]

:tractor::welcome:

 

[Briana03]

WELCOME to TBN

I moved your thread to the General Lawn & Garden Forum.