Market gardening

[Taylor Lambert]

I dont get to post much on here hbut I wanted to share with yall the success of my gardens this year. We got a late start to everything this year. My okra didnt do well but I sold my tomato plants and several pepper plants from my green house. I did plant a 1/2 pound of squash, and 1/2 of zuccini and made a ton of both.

I use a 30hp Yanmar and my 49 Farmall Cub for cultivation. And heres my list of tools

Dearborn 2-14 breaker, Agrifab Middle buster, M5 Multipurpose convertible disk, Yanmar 5 foot tiller with homemade furrower and row markers.

I plant with a one row Covington, and also I have a Mechanical transplanter I picked up this summer at an auction to set peppers and tomato and cucumber plants.

My wife likes the transplanter best it saved a ton of time planting the tomatos. It worked pretty good on cucumber plants to.

I think a big seller for us is we dont use any chemicals other than a little fertilizer at the first planting. We use compost and aerated COmpost tea. The tea is applied foliarly.

Any one else here market garden with older equipment.

 

[hippie1st]

Can you post a pic of the transplanter.Im wanting to do some planting next yr.
Thks Hippie

 

[Briar Hill Brittanys]

We're working on it. This year was a major test for us, trying to figure out the best varieties to plant, keeping the bugs and weeds at bay, and trying to get water to the things we did plant. The 2 gardens are 140 X 130, turned the ground with a Ferguson 14-2, disced with an old JD KBA cut down to 2 gang offset, drew rows with a homebuilt disc hiller, JD 70 Flexi planter, cultivated with a Dearborn 13-2, and the tractor is a 50 8N. Not sure of the push planter, I think it's an Earthway. Started out by planting a full 130' row of Triple Crown and Chester thornless blackberries. Hoping to get first harvest next year. A full row of Blue Lake bush beans, Clemson spineless okra, yellow straight neck, butternut and spaghetti squash, pickling cukes, jalepeno, sweet banana, and bell peppers, red cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, yellow onions, Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine tomatoes, Peaches and Cream corn ( that the coons got the majority of) and Yukon Gold, Kennebec, and Pontiac potatoes. Squash, okra, broccoli, and red cabbage did great. Everything else had a tough time. We are still getting a little okra and tomatoes, although the first frost is forecast for Tuesday night. I've got a nice plot of buckwheat on another spot, getting it ready for the spring planting fiasco, er extravaganza? Ahh next year, there's always next year. Mark

 

[larry@stinescorner]

we started out good,got a lot of zucchini, yellow squash, and patty pan,and good cukes,then it got hot and dry in July,then unbelievably wet in august,that kind of finished the tomatoes and peppers. But we still grew a lot of good food,and Icant wait for next season to go at it again

 

[Taylor Lambert]

Heres the tractor and transplanter
http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr78/tumblebugtaylor/164.jpg

THats at work I run a landfill and in the evenings we tend a large plot there.

Im working on building the soil at the house and one rented spot. THe place Im looking at now has nice deep creek for irrigation purposes to I like that.

 

[Fergienewbee]

I"m still picking snow peas--I"ve picked them seven or eight times and still have blossoms. My beets show signs of phosphorous deficiency, so I"ll need to address that next year. I picked over 300 jalapenos from a dozen plants and 12 squash hills produces about two bushels. Potatoes and pickles were the biggest disappointment. Ah, but next year. I have two compost piles going and lots of corn stalks to run through a chipper. Gathering leaves for mulch for next year. Time to start cutting next winter"s wood.

Larry

 

[Dieselrider]

Hi Taylor we do a CSA in West central PA. The fresh garden vegetables are only part of what we do. We also do eggs, meat chickens, beef, and pork. We are looking into expanding into raw milk and cheeses.

Like you we are growing things all natural(no chemicals in fertilizer or pesticides), etc. We did have a bug problem this year with stink bugs on all squash and melon crops but everything else did pretty well. Still picking and delivering veggies as we had a late start because of the wet spring. Having the high tunnel in is helping to extend the season later and hopefully earlier next season. Looking to expand next year and do a few local farm markets as well. Take care, I have to go pick veggies.

 

[Vernon in Ks]

You can just draw water for irrigation from a creek with out permits?