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<blockquote data-quote="alabama" data-source="post: 499449" data-attributes="member: 2218"><p>Well 5 acres is a big garden but when you break it down and work it with a tractor, it ain't so big. </p><p>You need an acre just to plant sweet corn. With 3 planting dates and planting about 1/3 acre two and three weeks apart it comes in all season and you have more time to put it up. </p><p></p><p>Then you need two acres for black-eyed peas and butter beans.</p><p></p><p>About 1/2 acre for watermelons and cantaloupe. </p><p></p><p>another 1/2 acre for green beans, squash, maters, cucumbers, taters and okra, 2 or 3 rows of each is plenty.</p><p></p><p>Then in the fall, you need to set out onions, cabbage, broccoli, turnips, and collards. </p><p></p><p>Now that is about 5 acres.</p><p></p><p>The first thing to do with a new garden is spray it with round up. Before you plow. Then bottom plow it and disk it smooth. Use aterzeen under the corn and treflan under the peas and beans. Cultivate and hand spray round up to fight weeds. Use a hoe as a last resort. I wanted to hire a ho-er last year but my girlfriend said no.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alabama, post: 499449, member: 2218"] Well 5 acres is a big garden but when you break it down and work it with a tractor, it ain't so big. You need an acre just to plant sweet corn. With 3 planting dates and planting about 1/3 acre two and three weeks apart it comes in all season and you have more time to put it up. Then you need two acres for black-eyed peas and butter beans. About 1/2 acre for watermelons and cantaloupe. another 1/2 acre for green beans, squash, maters, cucumbers, taters and okra, 2 or 3 rows of each is plenty. Then in the fall, you need to set out onions, cabbage, broccoli, turnips, and collards. Now that is about 5 acres. The first thing to do with a new garden is spray it with round up. Before you plow. Then bottom plow it and disk it smooth. Use aterzeen under the corn and treflan under the peas and beans. Cultivate and hand spray round up to fight weeds. Use a hoe as a last resort. I wanted to hire a ho-er last year but my girlfriend said no. [/QUOTE]
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