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  1. Alan in Vermont

    Working the soil with "Heavy Equipment"

    I have been trying to make poor soil viable in a short time. So far, so good. Started working one plot in '06. Finally had a tractor with a real plow and was given permission to use a piece of land that was very light sand and was growing milkweed and goldenrod. Plowed it myself a bit...
  2. Alan in Vermont

    Working the soil with "Heavy Equipment"

    Yours would have fit right in with mine. Last year it fell to a 1977(maybe '78, CRS) model 400 and a 1971 140 to do it all. The 400 is the heavy workhorse, it handles the plow and disc and, since it has a loader, hauls mulch and manure. The 140 does the planting and, with narrow tires...
  3. Alan in Vermont

    Working the soil with "Heavy Equipment"

    I notice that a lot of the participants here are working raised beds or "smaller" flat plots. I'm dealing with more area and working my soil with plow and harrow, using four wheeled garden tractors. Mine are all old enough to be "vintage" or even "antique", the newest is a 1991 model. I could...
  4. Alan in Vermont

    Mulch?

    A local restaurant wants 50 acorn squash a week for as long as I can get the season spread out. I much lesser quantities of butternut and buttercup varieties for the farmers market.
  5. Alan in Vermont

    Starting Onions From Seed

    Last year I planted Walla Walla onions using started plants from Gurney's. They did well and I want to do more this year to try at our farmers market. A bit pricey to go with plants so I want to start my own from seed. I have slightly less than zero idea of how to go about it. Our average...
  6. Alan in Vermont

    Mulch?

    I got hooked up with a local tree service, they are dropping their loads of (free) wood chips on one of my garden sites. I'm hoping to get 100+ cubic yards I will use that in conjunction with my tire ring "hills" for my cucurbit crops. As soon as the frost is out and the ground dried enough to...
  7. Alan in Vermont

    Zone 4 newbe.

    I believe it is based on average winter low temps.
  8. Alan in Vermont

    Zone 4 newbe.

    North of you. Depending on which map you use my area, NW Vermont is zone 4 while the mountains of central VT are zone 3. The zones are pretty loosely defined and vary from one map to another.
  9. Alan in Vermont

    Enough is enough!!!!

    10" of perfect snowman snow up here and still falling. Guess I don't need to get the (garden) plow on the tractor just yet. :)
  10. Alan in Vermont

    Planting in Tires

    With virtually all tires are now steel belted radials it takes a bit to learn just where to cut to get the nice smooth "rings". You need to cut as close to the tread as possible. You will be able to tell if the knife is hitting the belts almost as soon as the blade penetrates. Move the cut...
  11. Alan in Vermont

    Planting in Tires

    Between the rings I put down a layer of wood chips. Once the plants get a few inches high I weed and then mulch inside the rings. The first year I put plastic over the rings and ballasted it with dirt to create a micro-climate in each ring. Last year I lucked into a mess of 1/2" plastic water...
  12. Alan in Vermont

    Planting in Tires

    I have been messing with ways to use tires in the garden for the past three years. I'm lucky in that I have more equipment than a lot of folks do to make the work go easier. That ties in nicely with my being too lazy to work hard if a machine can do it for me. Hopefully somebody else ca find...
  13. Alan in Vermont

    Newbie from Northwest Vermont

    Kya, yes, that one earns it's keep. It's a 1978 JD 400 pulling a 12" Brinly plow a full 6" deep in old sod. Sandi, my Granddaughter and several of her friends had first dibs on the patch. It started a soft rain and was getting dark before everybody arrived. They each got to pick one big...
  14. Alan in Vermont

    Newbie from Northwest Vermont

    Hello all. I'm a small scale market gardener and collector/user of John Deere garden tractors. The gardening started as an excuse to use my tractors. I'm working a couple acres now, land that friends let me use. Have made some blunders and learned a few things. Hopefully I can find...
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