Lets see those 2025 gardens.
 

Plowed my gardens last Sunday and hope to get some potatoes in today before we get rain tomorrow. This 982 does a pretty good job pulling this Sears plow.

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Looking good Oak. We are still waiting for the frost to come out of
ground. 16 this morning when I did chores.

Ken

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Oak,
Is that a 12
I used the 128 & the 10" this year.
The cub never even broke a sweat!

I hope to get spuds in the ground soon but it's still below freezing every night for the next week or so.
Planted on the 14th last year.
Have 150# of seed to get ready yet.

It has been raining here (northeast IL) ALOT. Getting in the garden would be dreaming at this point, but my garlic that was planted in the fall is growing. I'd like to get my potatoes and onions in the ground. Probably start some trays of Marigolds this weekend.

I'll probably start on the Garden prep next week here In Northeastern, Illinois(Kane country) I prefer to Plow when the daily temperature is above 60:ThumbsUp:

Fins, I believe that is a 12" plow. They were made for the Sears FF garden tractors which were made to compete against the 982 & JD 400 from what I hear. Sergeant may know more about that. I believe they are pretty rare.

I got about 40lbs of seed taters and (8) 45' rows of sweet corn planted yesterday. If the frost doesn't kill the corn it should be ready to pick around the last week in June.

I use a 2" blocker to start my seeds but my tomatoes & peppers are only about 1" tall right now so those will take a few weeks yet.

I need to get some type of deer deterrent for my garden this year. I'm thinking using some type of electric fence.

Oak,
Do you wrap your spuds in newspaper before you plant them?

Looks like O/night temps will be above freezing here in about a week so I'd better get my act together and lay out some spuds for cutting soon.

Going to dig out the big 48" tiller this week from storage and get it mounted on the 2086 as well as service the 1650 that gets used for custom work in smaller gardens.

Show season will be upon us soon what with the big Dyersville, Iowa spring National Farm Toy Museum Show coming up June 7-8.
The past 3 years a local group has been staging a GT show on the grounds in conjunction with the toy show with a good turnout last year.

Come on SUNSHINE!!

All the years we grew spuds commercially we always planted well
before the freezes were over. We would wait till they broke ground and
then keep burying the exposed plants to keep the frost off. Not saying that
was fun but it sure bought us a lot of weeks of grow time.

What is the thought on the newspapers? Never heard of that one.

Ken

Umm....
To keep the dirt outta their eyes!!??
Just :bigthink: had to ask, huh??

Roper Made the FF series for about 2 years. But they made the attachments for about 5 years total. The FF series started at $3,000 something and went up to $4,300 But No Power steering, Plus the Price Point, while cheaper than the 982 and JD 400, was still not cheap enough for the consumer in the early 1980s.

The FF series was shaft driven with Hydraulic Lift, True Cat 0 3-point Hitch and rear PTO. Prior to that Cat 0, the Sears tri-Hitch was available, which was not a true Cat 0. I still love to find a decent FF 20 or FF 24 to add to my collection. Kwik-way also made a Loader and Backhoe for them, and the Loader Kit did not need a front spindle upgrade Kit like some of the Later Kwik-way Loader Kit came with for Craftsman GTs in the Late 1980s and early 1990s:ThumbsUp: