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Read articles →A casual annual sweet-corn planting video, now in its tenth year, showing tillage with a subcompact tractor and rotary tiller followed by single-row planting with a John Deere 7000 MaxEmerge unit on a three-point hitch. Tim briefly explains why he prefers subcompact tractors for garden tilling, how he handles tiller holes and humps, and touches on planter advantages over older Deere 71 units. Best for hobby gardeners curious about that specific planter setup.
An owner-operator hobby-farming channel focused on compact tractors, explicitly self-described as non-expert enthusiasts sharing family projects in an entertainment-first style.
Leave a hole where you plan to leave a hump on the next pass, so the final crossways pass fills the hole in. It is not perfect but easier than doing it by hand.
The MaxEmerge units are plateless, so they plant any size sweet corn and give much better seed drop and placement than the older Deere 71 units.
It has a short turning radius, is handy to deal with, and tills gardens as well as or better than bigger tillers, which can be too wide for garden contours.
