One Row Cultivator

theboman · Apr 8, 2003

Been thinking of all the reasons to buy and not to buy one.

Reasons to buy.
I can see it as a way to lay out the garden.
I can cultivate the garden before the crops get to tall, and that'll beat a few days hoeing.

Reasons to not to buy.
I can lay out the garden with my tater plow.
It's not something that gets used a lot.

TSC has one for $177. Anybody know how big these untis are? Seemed to be about 4-5', but it was not fully spreadout.

JerryG · Apr 8, 2003

Bo,
I haven't measured mine, but it looks to be about 5 feet.

Hoeman00 · Apr 9, 2003

I've got all the shovels off but 2, use to put in rows w/.
5' is about right .
U can put wider shovels on it too give more cut.
How big of a garden do u plant?
A 1 acre garden would take a fair amount of time to hoe.

theboman · Apr 9, 2003

It's pretty big 1/2 to 1 acre. I MOWED my garden last year and took the weedeater to it a time or two, sad but true. The green beans were wonderful the corn was okay. Cucumbers were so so but many were lost on a late frost. I learned a lot.

Hoeman00 · Apr 9, 2003

I plant lots of sweetcorn, usually 3 or 4 passes w/ 12 row Kinze about a week or so apart except one year when dad got seed and didn't get the maturity.
Planted 2 weeks apart but 2nd seed had 2 weeks less maturity
OOOOPS, needless to say we had corn coming out our EARS /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
I picked over 150 dozen one evening and had the wife sell it the next morning (cheap).

theboman · Apr 9, 2003

I'm new to having my own garden, my father had one my whole life. Two years after he passed on I'd decided that green beans from a can don't compare in taste to the ones from a garden and from glass.
My mom loves to work with the garden and does a great job. I have some friends that drop by and picks some beans too.
Last year I used 1 1/2 pounds of beans and set them out the same day, so we had beans and beans and beans, and if hadn't been for zero rain in July I think I could still be picking beans.
This year I'll put out the same amount of beans but space the planting a month a part. I'll do more corn, cucumbers, tomatos, leaf lettuce and maybe a row or two of taters. I'll do the nieces/nephews some pumpkins but wait til June/July to plant them and thinking about some peppers.