Tractor Attachments for Gardening

As the harsh weather calms down and we start getting a few sunny days here and there, you’re probably thinking about getting your garden prepared for another great summer of fresh veggies! It doesn’t matter how big your garden is, with huge farming operations and private home gardens alike, getting a few attachments for your tractor will help turn the soil and get it ready faster and more effectively than you ever could by hand.

Stop by Mike Cooper Tractors in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma to see our full selection of tractor implements. We serve the areas of Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Muskogee, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma and we’ll help you find everything you need!

Plows

If your garden is less than 5 years old, you’ll need to break up the soil and turn over the old plants into the ground. This can be a big project to do manually though. Even using a hand plow to do this on a small garden can be a pain, and you’ll get much better results with a tractor plow. This attachment is best utilized when you have a tractor with enough power to use the plow properly. With smaller, compact or sub-compact vehicles, you’ll want to use a compact tractor plow. This means, for you home-garden owners, if you don’t have a tractor yet, all you need is a small one. For bigger gardens, you probably already have a large machine, which you should equip with a 2 bottom plow. These plows cover a larger area, making it easier to turn over a lot of soil in less time.

Tillers and Disc Harrows

After plowing, the next step is to break up all those dirt clods to make your garden workable, and there’s no easier way to do that than with a tiller. Rotary tillers can be hooked up to tractors, and you can even adjust the liftgate to change how finely you want to till the dirt. A till is powered by the tractor’s PTO (power take off) which turns the tines and breaks up all the clumps in its path. If you want a slightly cheaper implement, a disc harrow does the same thing as a tiller, just with different mechanics. The disc harrow doesn’t have tines to break apart dirt. Instead, it has thin discs, set at an angle, that get pressed into the soil by the attachment’s weight and eradicate those leftover dirt clods. Both are very effective attachments that get your garden ready for planting.

Bedders

Sure, you can walk down every individual line in your garden drawing rows with the edge of your till, after spending a few hours setting up stakes and twine. Or, you can do all that work in a matter of minutes with a garden bedder. This wonderful attachment is made up of evenly spaced disks, which are designed with an angular design so that they run through the soil, creating rows with nice, even trenches on both sides. Not only is all that work done instantaneously with this device, but you can also do three rows at once, instead of one. Also, don’t worry about the tire tracks. With a set of sweeps that go on the garden bedder, the tracks behind you will disappear as you drive down the rows, so you don’t have to deal with compacted dirt.

Cultivators

After you’ve planted your crops, they’re going to have a little bit of competition for nutrients from their pesky neighbors. These neighbors, of course, are weeds, and unless you enjoy spending your Saturdays breaking your back, hoeing out these annoying things, a one row cultivator is the best way to go. A cultivator is designed so that its high center passes over your cherished crops while it digs its tines into the surrounding dirt, effectively removing all the weeds. While ripping the weeds out, it also breaks up the dirt into a soft, smooth layer, so your plants still have somewhere to take root. This only needs to be done until the plants grow taller than the cultivator’s center; at this point, they’ve grown strong enough to fight the weeds off by themselves. How easy is that? You’ll have big, healthy plants, without lifting a hoe even once!

Sounds like gardening with tractor attachments makes everything a lot easier, doesn’t it? Your garden will thank you for the quality care with a bountiful harvest, and your body will thank you for not putting it out in the sun all day every day. If you’d like to take a look at some of these implements and find which ones will be right for your tractor, come ask one of our experts at Mike Cooper Tractors in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. We proudly serve the areas of Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Muskogee, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma.