Useles Billy's #4th Garden

[livinoutdoors]

Seminole pumkins are bullet proof. I grow south anna butternut which is a cross from them. North Georgia candy roasters are a great one too. The C. Moschata and C. Maxima types are the hardiest. C. Pepo the least imho.

 

[B. White]

I’m ashamed to show my garden right now, but here’s my corn…..it’s doing purty good. Ain’t had much time to tend anything, and the dang rear tine tiller broke. Gonna hit erying with a layoff (?) plow Tamara

I've used a wheel hoe with sweeps attachment the past two years. You wouldn't think so, but I can go a lot faster than the rear tine tiller with less wear and tear on me. I would sell the tiller, but use it when I need to get down deeper in a boxed in area I can't get to with the tractor, like sowing a 6' wide strip where garlic was with buckwheat between corn and maters. If I do it regularly the thin blades run right under the crust at a fast walk and I have very little hoe work to follow up with.

 

[livinoutdoors]

I've used a wheel hoe with sweeps attachment the past two years. You wouldn't think so, but I can go a lot faster than the rear tine tiller with less wear and tear on me. I would sell the tiller, but use it when I need to get down deeper in a boxed in area I can't get to with the tractor, like sowing a 6' wide strip where garlic was with buckwheat between corn and maters. If I do it regularly the thin blades run right under the crust at a fast walk and I have very little hoe work to follow up with.

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Folks wont believe how good a wheel hoe will do until they try it. I havent used a gas tiller in years now.

 

[JB0704]

@B. White and @livinoutdoors , is this what I need?

Double Wheel Deal

The Double Wheel Deal is the perfect package that provides all the necessary tools to help you grow your own food; this package includes the Double Wheel Hoe, the Plow Set and the Sweeps. The Double Wheel Hoe is a dual-wheeled push cultivator that provides added stability for cultivating...

hosstools.com

 

[JB0704]

Don't wanna order the wrong thing.......but I'ma take yalls word for it and order one and see what happens.....

 

[livinoutdoors]

@B. White and @livinoutdoors , is this what I need?

Double Wheel Deal

The Double Wheel Deal is the perfect package that provides all the necessary tools to help you grow your own food; this package includes the Double Wheel Hoe, the Plow Set and the Sweeps. The Double Wheel Hoe is a dual-wheeled push cultivator that provides added stability for cultivating...

hosstools.com

Wait till later and i'll get with ya.

 

[livinoutdoors]

@JB0704 that kit you listed will do a good job for general weeding. I like the single wheel better but thats just personal taste. Both work fine. I like the cultivator teeth set as well. Hoss is a great company and make very good stuff.

 

[sportsman94]

I’ve got the high arch wheel hoe. Other than the initial disking it’s about the only tool I use in my garden

 

[B. White]

I’ve got the double wheel. Don’t know if it matters much.

 

[JB0704]

So, given my garden has gon a few weeks untended.......would I destroy that thing trying to plow the rows? I'm gonna order it, but wonder if I need to borrow a rear tine before I try to use it.

Also, what is the name of the attachments yall use? I can try to add them on. Looks like a neat piece of equipment.

 

[sportsman94]

So, given my garden has gon a few weeks untended.......would I destroy that thing trying to plow the rows? I'm gonna order it, but wonder if I need to borrow a rear tine before I try to use it.

Also, what is the name of the attachments yall use? I can try to add them on. Looks like a neat piece of equipment.

I just bought the high arch wheel deal or whatever it’s called. They all come with the cultivation teeth I believe so the pack added a plow set and two 6” oscillating hoes. I use the plow to furrow and hill as needed. Mostly for burying drip tape and billing corn and taters. I mostly just use the cultivation teeth, but the oscillating how probably does a better job of killing weeds

 

[B. White]

I use the sweeps attachments in the pic above 95% of the time. I have other attachments that do fine, but I like what they do in my soil type and unless there is a lot of trash (dead clover fresh cut, big rock, etc) they run right under the surface and cut with little effort. The oscillating hoe attachment works good, but the sweeps will do the same thin and I get a little wider path with them turned outwards.

I can't tell how bad your weeds are. You definitely wont hurt anything, but if really bad it will probably take more effort on your part the first time through. I usually try to make a pass down every row weekly to maintain it at an easy to work level.

 

[JB0704]

I’m GON buy the wheel plow, but I borrowed a tiller…….n thankfully my boy is home for the summer from law school……

 

[fireman32]

@JB0704 my single wheel works good.

 

[JB0704]

@JB0704 my single wheel works good.View attachment 1230038

I’m GON order one, but had to do sumpin. Had been weeks since any weed control was done here. Would’ve had to abandon it completely if they got much worse.

 

[livinoutdoors]

I got a cheaper one that makes furrows. Earthway makes it. The Hoss one i have the cultivator teeth on but @B. White is right on about the sweeps. Will cut roots better. Just get all of it.

 

[JB0704]

I got a cheaper one that makes furrows. Earthway makes it. The Hoss one i have the cultivator teeth on but @B. White is right on about the sweeps. Will cut roots better. Just get all of it.

I will. I’m looking forward to trying it.

 

[fireman32]

Blueberries are ready.

 

[sportsman94]

Those look great! We’ve been getting a handful a day off our two year old bushes. My three year old loves going out there and checking. Far more than anything in the garden. Good eats in your near future

 

[sportsman94]

Got 8 pints of bread and butters pickled today. We only put up a handful last year and burned through them too quickly. Gonna try not to make that mistake again. Gonna try to ferment some dills again if once I get all my b&b-s finished

Still picking every other day or so. Have some cherry tomatoes almost ripe and some peppers starting to put on. Sunflowers are blooming and sweet potatoes will be here this week to replace the regular taters