Automated carrot and potato farming

[Dragonfel]

Hey guys, I just started setting up farms for my new base with forestry and I noticed they don't have a machine specifically for carrots and potatoes. Does the "Farm" machine work for them as well as wheat?

If not, does anyone else have any advice for an automated farm of roughly the same size as a Forestry Wheat farm?

 

[Peppe]

IC2 has 'crop' to plant things in (till soil to place crop sticks in). To auto harvest use IC2 Crop-Matron or if Gregtech is installed it is replaced by a crop harvester.

Works with carrots/potatoes and many other crops. No seeds get produced though, so you have to farm seeds using other means if you want to expand your farm, but works great for non seed plants.

 

[Omicron]

The Forestry wheat farm handles potatoes and carrots just fine.

Alternatively, Thaumcraft golems do too, and look cute while doing it

 

[Mero]

I use thaumcraft. I usually have to put the golems away after a few rl days because the farm so much. My first diamond chest goes to my farm plot.

I plant a 9x9, half with potatoes and half carrots. Then I surround that with 2 rows of reeds. After getting a couple hundred stacks of reeds I change them out for pumpkins and melons.

 

[Saice]

Yes I am a huge fan of the golem farming system one or two smart straws and one or two woods and the farm basically will run it self.

 

[lukasni]

I just use a turtle and a skeleton spawner.