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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Toolbar (was: potatoes)
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:26:44 -0400

Short answer,,,,yes.

You can also revers your disks, make 'em tight so they cut and spread rather than hill and run a cut and then seed. Reverse, widen, hill.

If that makes sense.

I'll be honest, this is also part of my "poor man" bed shaper that I am trying to build in addition to a potato hiller.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
rstewart AT zoomtown.com




On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:33 PM, pwors AT svn.net wrote:
I've been following this thread for a few days. There are 30" between my
tires. I have a 3x3 toolbar, on which I have a 6" wide shovel, centered.
This is what I make my potato furrow with. I plant the spuds by hand, then
make a pass with 2 hilling disks, one on each side, facing in, at about a
30 degree angle to the direction of travel, with their inside edges about
24 inches apart. This pretty well buries the potatoes under 3-6" of soil,
in a 30" bed which is slightly domed. Sometimes I rake by hand afterwards.
The next furrow is made with the tire at the edge the previous bed, so if
you assume a 10" wide tire tread, my furrows are centered at 40" from each
other. When the plants are 6" or so high, I hill them the same way I
planted them- One pass with the discs. For the second hilling, I move the
discs outwards and run them deeper, so as to make use of the full 30" of
soil to hill the plants nice & high.

Am I missing something, or is this pretty much the way others without a
planter do it?

Good Luck

Peter Worsley

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