A Buyer’s Guide to Tractor Implements for Gardening

If you want to get the most out of your gardening, you’ll want to look at some versatile attachments for your tractor. Whether you want to take good care of your home garden or have a huge farming operation to manage, the right tools for the job will make you and your garden’s life easier. Here are some tips on how to use tractor attachments to get your garden in shape as quickly as possible.

Tillers

Once you’ve got your soil plowed, next you should look to break up clods of dirt to make workable soil. That’s where a tiller comes in. Rotary tillers are a useful tractor attachment for gardening and will have your soil tilled to your desired consistency.

Disc Harrows

A disc harrow performs the same tasks as a tiller but with different means. And an added bonus s that they are more affordable. The disc harrow doesn’t feature tines to break the soil. However, it has thin discs, set at an angle, that get pressed into the soil by the implement’s weight and break those leftover dirt clods. Both tillers and disc harrows are very effective attachments that get your garden ready for planting.

Plows

Gardens that are relatively new will need to have their soil broken up and turned over with whatever remaining vegetation there is. This can be quite a task for manual labor, with even a hand plow being a laborious task. A tractor plow will give you better results in less time. Compact and subcompact tractors should both use a compact tractor plow, so it doesn’t matter whether you have a small gardening tractor or a larger model. Larger tractors can be equipped with a two-bottom plow to cover larger areas.

Cultivators

Cultivators are designed so that their high center passes over your seedlings and other crops while it digs into the surrounding dirt to remove weeds. Not satisfied with only one task, cultivators also break dirt into a soft layer so your plants still have somewhere to take root. Once your plants are taller than the cultivator’s center, they’re strong enough on their own to fight off weeds.

Bedders

When you use a bedder with your tractor, evenly spaced disks with an angular design run through the soil, creating rows with even trenches on both sides. Not only is all that work done instantaneously, but you can do three rows at once. You won’t have to worry about tire tracks, as a set of sweeps that go on the garden bedder cover the tracks behind you as you drive down the rows so you don’t have to deal with compacted dirt.

We hope that these tractor attachments will make your gardening work easier. If you’re interested in checking out our selection of tractors for sale, get in touch with us at Central Arkansas Mahindra. You’ll find us in Little Rock, AR, where we proudly serve all those in Sherwood, Conway, and Hot Springs.