Fleet: Depends on on what wheel tread your tractor is set at, then depends what type of cultivator ground working equipment you have. A Super A wheel tread can be set in 2" increments all the way from 40" to 68".
With the standard F-144 cultivator you can plant single rows from 40" to as wide as you want. Some guys plant pumpkins as wide as 6-8 feet. I have tool bar cultivators on my tractors and have planted 2x24" rows, 2x26" rows, 2x30" rows, 2x34" rows, 3x20", as well as single rows in my lifetime. I used to run my Super A set 52" wheel tread and 130 set at 60" wheel tread. This allowed me to plant single rows from 52" up. I also allowed me to plant 2x26" rows with SA and 2x30" or 3x20" with my 130. That was in the days when I had commercial vegetable production.
Now a days and just a home garden, I keep my tractor set at 52", thus I can plant single rows from 52" up. I can also plant 2x26". Right now I'm planting items like beets, lettuce, radish, spinnach, carrots, onions, parsnips, etc in 3 rows 6" apart, center of tractor. I have beans and peas in 2 rows a foot apart, center of tractor. Those crops are all 6" plus high, beets, spinach and radishes are being harvested, peas will be ready in a week. I have not used my cultivators yet this season, nor am I likely to, other than scratch the wheel tracks if they get weedy. Using the system I've outlined, my crops are so tight together they have the weeds beat. Other than potatoes I don't do any tillage or row cultivation during the growing season. Those crops are all on 30" wide raised beds that were formed last fall with my cultivator. I never plant garden in the same place as last year. Last years garden is now in buckwheat, which is killing all the weeds.
Other than potatoes, I'm a notill gardener, in the growing year. On a half acre, I can do all my hand weeding in about 4 hours.
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