Posted by CNKS on February 29, 2008 at 18:10:35 from (216.144.104.128):
In Reply to: Super A Finally! posted by nvfarmer on February 29, 2008 at 14:56:21:
Which type of cultivator do you have? Vegetable cultivators don't go by the number of rows. They usually have a bar that you can slide the shanks on for any row width. There really is no fixed way to set the cultivators -- you adapt the shanks and shovels, etc to whatever you want to do. My dad was a vegetable farmer, cultivated with H's and B's. Carrots and beets were planted in 20 inch rows, beets sometimes in 40 inch beds with 2 rows on the beds -- I never cultivated lettuce. Carrots were typically cultivated with chisel type sweeps, mainly to loosen the soil so that they would grow deeper. Weeds were not an issue in carrots because they were a fall grown crop in S Texas. Some crops were close cultivated with swept back knives on each side of the row, leaving as narrow a strip as the operator could handle. The hilling disks you refer to can subsitute for the knives I mentioned. They are set so that the soil is thrown out, not it. Otherwise you will bury small plants. They could be used turned in on some tall growing crops, I suppose. There is no official way.
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