Garden tilling.

JayinNY · Apr 27, 2013

I rototilled one of my gardens toady for the second time this month. It's been pretty dry here. My other gardens are all clay, but this one is a nice loam.

old · Apr 27, 2013

Where I am you would be knee deep in mud before you got 3 foot. Been raining her for the last 2 days. Had 2 dry days before that. I have a Troy built Horse model that I use and it sure is nice to have a tiller that almost tills all by it self. There are many times I just let go of it and it still keep on doing it job just fine

JayinNY · Apr 27, 2013

I bought that one from a customer, it's a pony, works great, now 2 years ago another customer was moving, called me and asked if I wanted his horse model! Well I had this one so I let my brother have it. If I only waited! Lol, here's his horse tiller.

old · Apr 27, 2013

This horse I have started out with a Tecumseh engine on it but it did not hold up well with the way my dad did gardens so after about 4 years the engine was wore out. I put a Koler on it for him and if has been there ever since. My dad got this one new back in 1872 and it still has to tire on it that came on it in 1972. By the way if your lucky the rain we have had for the last 2 days plus might be heading your way

old · Apr 27, 2013

that 1872 should read 1972 LOL

JayinNY · Apr 27, 2013

Lol, I said wow u have a good name "old" hahahaha I hope we don't get to much rain, then we get the mud! This is my other garden, clay and rocks!

Billy NY · Apr 27, 2013

It is that time again, I plowed my one patch last fall, soil is nice right about now, will turn it back, till and fence off from the deer !

I like the horse model, with the 7HP Kohler, one pull start, perfect match for the size of the tiller, and barring rocks, roots, or hard things underfoot, dry hard ground or unworked ground, they sure are a great machine. My father has the 8HP magnum pto model, I have the K161 Kohler in a horse, never been left outside, was a great CL buy a few in '09.

Fawteen · Apr 27, 2013

Nice.

I've got a Pony but only use it as a power hoe. I do my initial tilling with a 4' Howard behind my JD750.

I'm guilty of over-tilling. Used to till as soon as I could get on it in the Spring, again to kill the weeds that came up before it was warm enough to plant, and a third time just before planting.

[i:654c4848f0]Looked[/i:654c4848f0] great, but not so healthy for the soil. Too fine a tilth, soil compacts too much, hard on the worms.

Due to weather and a busy schedule, I let the garden lay fallow for a couple of years, soil is MUCH nicer now, and I bite my tongue and wait until the day I'm ready to plant to till it.

old · Apr 27, 2013

Back in 1992 that was about what my garden area was but I have since hauled in many loads of black dirt and mixed in a lot of horse manure and goat and chicken manure. I also add a lot of compost and do around 10 raised beds. I garden as organic as I can and do my best o not use any man handled chemicals as in store type fertilizers or pesticides

JayinNY · Apr 27, 2013

Yes same with me, I've been working this garden for 13 years now. I put in cow, and chicken manure and leaves in the fall. The other garden was made from brought in topsoil, before I bought the place. I stacked firewood on it for a few years, then cleaned it up and started planting it about 5 years ago. I have a 3rd garden but I won't be working that one very soon! To wet still.

old · Apr 27, 2013

Back before my dad died he did a garden that was about 250 feet long by around 100 foot wide. It did have a middle patch where he could drive between the 2 other tilled areas. He did that all with this horse troy I have now. That area is now pasture/hay and it does not do as well as the rest of my pasture due to him using a lot of chemicals like Mirical (sp) grow and other such stuff. I do what is called a square foot garden where I put in a lot in a small area but I also put on a lot of horse manure both in the fall and in the spring and all winter I put on goat and chicken manure. Had Jalapeno pepper plants as tall as I am and I stand 6 foot last year and last year was a hot dry poor year for agarden

Eldon (WA) · Apr 27, 2013

(quoted from post at 14:37:16 04/27/13)
I rototilled one of my gardens toady for the second time this month. It's been pretty dry here. My other gardens are all clay, but this one is a nice loam.

Out in this country we need the big boys...about the only thing that holds up to the valley gravel is the Howard Rotovator. This one tills over 120 gardens a year. 5' wide, 65 hp, 12" deep....40 x 40 garden tilled in 10 minutes!

JayinNY · Apr 27, 2013

I've learned alot from this book! Lol, got the book 19 years ago, it's still one of my favorites! Lol

old · Apr 27, 2013

If you can find a book called the Square Foot Garden. It explains which plants to plant with which so that you can use the plants them self's to help each other grow better. It also explains way to get the most out of a very small area. I would scan its cover but I let a friend borrow it since her place is in town and she only has a very small area she can plant.

big a · Apr 27, 2013

Dad wanted a rear tine for his huge garden. I got him a Howard Gem. That thing is a BEAST! Whenever he uses it people stop to watch. Big TJD Wisconsin on it that runs great. For what it weighs, it is amazingly nimble and well balanced.
One of only a few examples of good British engineering I have ever seen.

36 Coupe · Apr 28, 2013

Theres a revised edition. 2006.Ive sold many used copies.WWW coolspringspress.com.

El Toro · Apr 28, 2013

Nice looking loam for planting. I have an old Horse model. I paid a $100.00 for it and I sold the Tecumseh engine for $65.00. It now has a 10hp B&S engine. Hal
PS: I set out my tomato & pepper plants.

Texasmark1 · Apr 28, 2013

Years ago I bought a 19# 2 cycle Mantis tiller. I put my Troy in the shed and it hasn't been out. I love this little sucker and it definitely puts out the work. Plus it was about $200 and worth every penny. Haven't broken anything in all these years, other than one replacement of fuel lines deteriorating.

Might try one if you want something light and fast, gets around the plants easily. Comes with a sidewalk edger attachment too.

Mark

El Toro · Apr 28, 2013

I have that same book. I got that when I bought I bought my first Troy tiller in 1978. A man in NJ painted this picture on a tee shirt for me. Hal

JayinNY · Apr 28, 2013

That's pretty neat! I live about 1/2 hour from the Troy Built factory that was in Troy NY. I think mtd bought then out. I worked for a woman in the 90s who told me her late husband owned a foundry, they made castings for Troy Built products.

JayinNY · Apr 28, 2013

Yes I have seen those, I worked for an equipment dealer that sold them, they were small light tillers you could carry around pretty easy? I remember people did like them and never seen any problems with them.

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