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Overview
A casual garden update that uses a broadcast spreader behind a compact tractor to side-dress sweet corn with 12-12-12 starter fertilizer. Tim explains basic NPK reasoning, acknowledges a muddy spring planting season, and improvises a makeshift remote shutoff for the spreader with mixed results. Most useful to hobby gardeners curious about fertilizing sweet corn or using lawnmower-style spreader attachments with a subcompact tractor's extended drawbar receiver hitch.
Tractor Time with Tim is a family-run hobby-farming channel where the host shares projects and experiments as a self-described non-expert, so expect candid trial-and-error rather than polished instruction.
Spec overview
John Deere 1025R
- PTO horsepower
- 18.2 hp
- Loader lift capacity
- 120R: 1,823 lbf at pivot point; H120: 1,724 lbf at pivot point
- 3-point lift capacity
- 758 lb
- Hydraulic flow
- 3.5 gpm