Evidently plowing is a dead art. I'm tractor deficient so went to look for someone with a small tractor and turning plow to flip my garden.
Apparently the last plow man died some time ago.

If you run a shallow tiller over and over you end up creating a hardpan (at least if you have any clay content in your soil).

I run a single bottom plow down about 15 inches for my garden and small Ag fields.

We plow is help you out but it's a little far for me sorry! One of my favorite spring smells!
Colt

This and getting residue buried deep is why I want it done.

Some farmers here still use them

I know the feeling. I gave up finding someone to plow a small garden for me and went and bought an old Ford 640 tractor. Still have to find a 2 bottom plow, disc, and cultivator for it.

Really it is two fold. I have a great nephew that wants to learn how to do things for himself, work with his hands, raise some food, etc etc etc. I bought the tractor for him and I to restore this winter, then use next year.

Yep. We use to plow everything when I was young.
The belief use to be it speeds decay process faster of plant matter. Years of research they found out plowing actually allows the Important nutrients in the soil to leech even deeper , especially in sandy soils.
Plus the seeds and sprays available have changed things also.

When I was a young lad back on my dad's farm in the early 60s we would plow everything tillable usually every year. When I close my eyes and let my mind drift I can still hear that old 2 cylinder "JOHNNY POPPER" belting out a steady POP POP POP pulling that ole little 3 bottom. In that old red gumbol clay we would have a slab from one end of the field to the other end. Nothing but clods all the rest of the year. That's the way they used to do it. When I started farming we didn't plow our row crop land any more but always plowed wheat, oats or summer fallow ground. Buried the trash which is good for compaction in the long run. But it left the top side prone to heavy erosion from wind and rain. Washed away a lot of good topsoil. Gone forever. Now with no till, you want to leave the trash on top to slow the water during run off. Slow water doesn't wash or carry the soil away. Protects the soil from the wind also. Of course if you don't cultivate much, you need to control weeds with chemicals. Kinda a trade off between plowing and no till. Around here there is always some one with a small ford or yard tractor with a 2 or 3 bottom plow who will plow gardens. A Garden is usually small and protected from wind by not being out in the open. Most are small where tillers are used or I just spade mine a little at a time till I am done. We still have our big 5 and 6 bottom semi mounted plows growing in the trees and weeds out at the family farm. Use them once in awhile to plow up terraces or plow down wash outs. A bit of the past slowly slipping away forever... cept in the minds of those who can remember such times!!

^ Still a few Old timers around here that use their 620's and 720 JD . Gotta love them old ones.

Still a lot of mold board plowing done here when compared to other tillage options. About 20-25% with chisel plowing about 65% and no till the remainder.
We have very heavy red clay soils near Lake Michigan so tillage helps dry the soil along with our tiles and also warms it quicker so that soil temps warm up quicker so we can plant corn which needs lower 50 degree temps to germinate. We also have millions and millions of gallons of liquid and semi solid manure that needs to be directly injected or chiseled or mold boarded into the soil. This is an ordinance that we have in place due to erosion, rain events and odor, plus the loss of nutrients due to exposure. Tillage also works somewhat for weed control too. I bought a tractor mounted rear PTO rotor tiller for my garden and several others use it as well.

Bryce

My garden spot is 100'x100' and I just want bury the residue and work in some stuff deep as I had field lines run through the center of it. The lines a good four feet down and all that dirt they brought up is lacking the good stuff.

You're in Georgia. You got all winter to work it over with a shovel'n hoe.

If you can find one,a single shank 3-point sub-soiler is the way to go. A 35+ horse tractor will pull it at least 12-14 inches deep and keep your ground level.

Not with cabbage, collards, rutabegas, turnips and mustard to go in the ground yet. We grow stuff year round.

I still do but it might take awhile to get there

I have a good six bottom plow setting here I would like to sale, I'm afraid if I invest in tires and wheel bearings to get it to a consignment auction I won't get my money back on them when it sells.

They bring 5 to 8 hundred for 5 or 6 bottoms around here at consignment . Cost about 200 per bottom to rebuild

Just go no-till

used to be 2-3 bottoms laying in the ditches everywhere for little of nothing and then scrap went to $250/ton... now they are $3-400 around here...

just put my jd 2 bottoms on my kubota.