Tractor Implements for Gardening

Compact tractors are great at applying a large amount of working power to a precise area, like flower and garden beds. From plowing and tilling to bedding and cultivating, there’s a lot they can do, but tractors can’t get much done without the right set of implements. 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.

At Cliff Jones Mahindra Tractors, we carry the best in new and used tractors and equipment. We’ve put together this short guide to help our customers get the most out of their tractors. Read on for more information or head to our store in Sealy, Texas, where we proudly serve Houston, Victoria, and Columbus.

Plows

Turning over soil to recycle the old plants into the ground is important, especially for gardens that are still young (less than five years of growing). Turning over soil is hard work, 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 tractors, 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

Next up is breaking up all those dirt clods you just churned up to make your garden workable. Tiller implements make it a simple task. 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’re after a less expensive 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

Walk downing every individual line in your garden drawing rows with the edge of your till is certainly one way to set up beds. After spending a few hours setting up stakes and twine, you’ll wish you’d done it the easy way. 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. 

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

Ensuring proper nutrient flow to newly planted crops is a big issue. Weeds can take a lot of the good stuff in the soil away from the plants you actually want to cultivate, 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, cultivators also break 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!

A set of gardening implements can turn even the most daunting project into another day digging through the dirt! Let your garden thank you with an extra-bountiful harvest and some amazing looking beds. For anyone after the best new and used gardening implements for tractors, head into Cliff Jones Mahindra Tractors in Sealy, Texas, where we proudly serve Houston, Victoria, and Columbus. Come in today and speak with our team of courteous professionals who are more than ready to answer all your questions and help you find what you’re looking for.