Market Farming

[Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>]

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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