[Market-farming] Broadfork sources (was experiences)

Richard Moyer ramoyer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 22:29:44 EDT 2009


I borrowed a broadfork the last 6 weeks for preparing beds for fall crops.
Much quicker than the potato fork I had been using.

Any sources recommended other than Johnny's?  I do want one with wooden
handles, for wide and deep digging in our loam.

Some of our soil is a heavy clay down deep; I found that rocking the fork
forward and back or side to side while standing on it helped insert to the
hilt better than jumping on it.

As suggested earlier on this list, the broadfork then wheeled cultivator can
do a good job of preparing a seedbed.  We just seeded several hundred row
feet of carrots in such a bed.

Now I want to buy a broadfork.  Please share any sources if other than
Johnny's.

Thanks,
Richard Moyer
SW VA
Getting my market customers to try and buy purslane!
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