permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Tractor implements that can be used to build Permaculture earthworks, Keyline plowing, raised beds - mine & Eric Kindberg's

Mine are the Yeomans and all those in green and yellow (Roll-A-Cone Mfg. components) and others described below.

Most of these are used to create raised beds but using different tools producing different results.

Several pictures of mine show the hiller-bedder in next to it's final configuration. The final one added two small subsoilers to the rear toolbar.

This was important because they flattened, widened and  lowered the top of the bed. Without them the beds were too narrow at the top, too tall 

and angled at the top from the sides down toward the center leaving a groove there that held too much water. The only implement missing from the collection I used was a huge John Deere single shank subsoiler.

I also used two three bottom turning plows shown in the images. One of these was a Ford 101. It was able to completely turn the turf completely over 360 degrees so that no plans were left above ground. 

This meant that all biomass was turned under to rot and could not sprout and continue growing in warm weather or Spring, essential for weed control when prepping soil in Spring. My other implements included an Italian spring tooth cultivator,

a three shank Yeomans keyline plow, a 50" Howard Rotavator and of course the hiller-bedder. All these implements were used in sequence starting with the Ford plow in Fall followed by the JD subsoiler, the Yeomans, the cultivator, 

the rotavator and the hiller-bedder all in the Spring

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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com