CULT: help - tractor cultivation, garden maps

From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>

Just finished fertilizing, alfalfa pelleting, and tractor cultivating
part of my irises.  I never got around to plowing the rows of irises out
in the rockpile last year & in the mean time, the established clumps of
the thriving cultivars had gotten too big for the rows in a few places. 
So now I have some rearranged pieces of plants out there that will
probably take two or three years to get labels sorted out on again :<

For those of you who tractor cultivate, what kind of cultivators (or
plows, as we call them hereabouts) do you use?  Any tricks for labels in
the rows to keep them from getting plowed under, dragged away by weeds &
trash (= dead pieces of plants) that get snagged by the cultivators?  I
use a one-row cultivator that has three spring steel shanks with ?3 inch
wide shovels.  When weeds and trash are really bad, I use just two
shanks in each middle, but this time of year, the roundup and winter
have kept things down well enough that, except for a few stray turnips,
I was able to use three on each side.  With full draft (my tractor
doesn't have positive downward pressure like some of the John Deeres
do), as compacted as the soil and gravel is, they only penetrate maybe 6
inches.

Anybody have tips/experience to share?

Thanks.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA, great Valley of the Tennessee River, up
Stamp Creek about 2 miles from Watt's Bar Reservoir, zone 7/8, elevation
700 feet, at the base of a north facing hill 1100 feet high.  Forsythia
in full, spectacular bloom with record heat.


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