What Tractor Equipment Creates the Best Gardens

Back in the time before the invention of tractors, growing a crop was seriously hard work. Tremendous amounts of laborers and farm animals were needed to maintain a field or garden. Fast forward to today! Farm implements combined with a tractors 3 point hitch will allow you to produce the same results while cutting the cost of manpower. In the age of the Internet, you can research, watch demos, and even order these attachments directly online and have them delivered without getting out of your chair.

Tractors provide two different ways to attach farm implements and are standard features on most compact and full sized tractors. The 3pt. Hitch system allows a garden farmer to connect a seemingly endless array of tractor equipment to the rear of a tractor. Many of these will also need to be powered by what is known as the Power Take Off or PTO, and a good example of garden tractor attachments that would need to be powered by the tractor is a tractor rotary tiller and if you were putting up a fence around your garden, a post hole digger.

Farm tractors can greatly benefit from having a front end loader installed. Most tractor owners use this to attach a bucket to their tractor, but this is only one of many farm implements that can be used if you have a universal quick attach hitch on your loader. Many farmers not only have crops, but livestock as well that need hay carried to and from pastures and fields. 4 in 1 buckets for front end loaders are a good example of how to utilize your loader for more uses.

So, you may be asking yourself, what implements should I consider owning to create the best garden possible without having to pick up a hoe? There is a basic set of attachments take help to produce a healthy crop, so keep on reading. If you are planting a garden, a garden tractor plow is almost a necessity. A plow allows you to turn the earth and prepare the soil for planting your garden. If you have a smaller compact tractor then it is usually a good idea to use a One Bottom Plow. For larger tractors, a farm plow or two bottom plow is the better choice. This will allow you to plow your garden or field faster if your tractor has the horsepower to pull it.

The second step to planting a great garden is simple. You need to bust up the large chunks of dirt known to farmers everywhere as “Clods”. There are two different farm tractor attachments that are made to accomplish this task. The first is a Disc Harrow, and these are non-PTO powered farm tractor implements. They come in many sizes to accomodate the needs for compact tractor implements as well as very large versions to suit the large farm tractors as well. Basically these run over the clods and bust them into smaller ones. After several passes with a disc harrow, the soil will reach a good consistency for planting your crops in.

If you don’t have the time to work your garden over several times with a disc harrow, then you may want to consider owning a PTO Rotary Tiller. These attachments for garden tractors simply hook up to your tractor’s three point hitch and has curved blades that will produce excellent results in only one pass. There are many sizes from large to small to choose from, and compact tractor tillers are an excellent choice for smaller tractors. If you have a large tractor, you may want to choose three point hitch tillers that are as wide as your tractor.

Using a garden bedder to create a raised mound of soil for you to plant in is very important to this process. Taking the time to adjust your bedder properly will help your seed to have the right environment to flourish in, and will also make planting your seed a whole lot easier. If you get it just right, you can almost eliminate the need for a furrowing attachment depending on what you are planting. It is great to use a bedder with “tire sweeps” on the outside to pull up the compacted ground from you running over it with your tractor.

Once all of the garden is planted, garden farmers are faced with the task of keeping weeds and unwanted plants from choking out the intended plants of their crop. There are two ways to do this as well. You can get up in the morning and use an old fashioned hoe, or you can use a garden tractor cultivator. Basically, you attach the cultivator to the three point hitch of the tractor and space your shanks apart so that you do not disturb the roots of the planted crop and drive down each row of your field or garden. The cultivator will rip up the unwanted weeds and leave your crop intact. Once your crop grows enough, you will find that it will shade the areas beside the row and prevent the wide spread growth of the weeds.