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Getting the big vegetable garden ready for planting!

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Lane Ranger

We worked all week on the vegetable garden  tilling,  incorporating old horse manure and  yesterday and today  starting the alignment of rows planting of seeds!   We used  the 1979 Wheel Horse C-121 and tiller for a lot of the work but also used the 1961  Wheel Horse 701  with disc, spiked tooth harrow.  We will be using the 701 with two piece cultivator to keep the garden  as free of weeds as possible later on in the season.

 

We will be  placing plants in the ground in about 10 days!

 

Here are a few early pics of the process used.

 

 

Hauling  701 to the farm/garden

 

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Harrow and Disc

 

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C-121 at Work

 

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701  with Disc  and harrow

 

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C-121 at work

 

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Horses Resting for the day

 

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squonk

Nice pics and cool Dog!  :)

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Lane Ranger

  Lucy  keeps the rabbits out of the garden -earns her keep every day!  Great dog !

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specialwheelhorse

Good friend said he used to drink more mint tea till he noticed

Little bit their garden dog draining her radiator on the mint!

Weed eater line is great for laying out nice rows but we know

You can get more plants in a crooked row !!!

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JERSEYHAWG /  Glenn

Lane, as always. First class. The horses really do the job.

Glenn

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Wheel-N-It

Yep, that was first class all the way!

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specialwheelhorse

Neat. Neat trailer as well.

Wish I still lived in Ohio

Some sweet garden area

Up there

Took a while to get into gardening

Here in Texas.

Much different

But do have onions

Big as baseballs already!!!

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Racinbob

That looks great and like a lot of fun. I sure miss the big garden we had in Indiana.

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groundhog47

Lane, just can't believe you let those horses do that, they are too pretty (if that's a proper term). You sure that's not an old sales brochure, wow!  Shames me so at my old boys conditions :oops:

 

And really, is that term "worked" accurate, I'll bet it was a joy for you and the hosses! At any rate, good job all around! :greetings-clappingorange:  

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Lane Ranger

They were made to work not sit on a pedestal  Groundhog!  They do their best when working !

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groundhog47

They were made to work not sit on a pedestal  Groundhog!  They do their best when working !

I know, I know, but I never saw or had the opportunity to groom quality or new. Must be why mine remain rougher than rough! Setting idle doesn't do them well anyway!

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stevasaurus

Great pictures Lane...was great seeing you and Dave at Mentone.  I really like that corral on the trailer.  :)

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A couple shots of me  doing some disc work !

 

 

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KC9KAS

Great photos Lane!

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Lane Ranger

Those old discs and spiked tooth harrows work a lot better with some cement blocks on them!  

 

Disc  should be angled at first to break up the soil faster!  

 

Harrow has to be cleaned of  plant and weed debirs after about four or five runs !  

 

But all in all for 50 plus year old stuff they  did break up the soil pretty well! 

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