Could anyone give me a list of the basic implements you need to do a home vegetable garden under hosre power from start to finish?

Also, a step by step just basic planting and harvesting type schedule. I know dates vary from region to region, I just am more interested, in what order you do things.

This is what I have or will have so far:
Turning plow
Planter with different seed plates
Cultivator (five tine type)
Sweep

There are so many other implements but I'm trying to figure out what I really need. There are also so many differnt types of harrow from disc, to spring tooth, to spike, to chain, etc.

Working with one horse so a little more challenging. What do you do after the ground is plowed?

It'simple,if you've plowed your ground,then drag it,with a section of spike tooth or springs tooth harrow. One section is enough. One horse can pull a two horse disc with tongue trucks for a little while. I'm refering to a small two horse disc not a bigger than eight or ten blades. When its level you need to lay off your rows. Here folks used to take a stake, measure the desired row width and stick a stake at the opposite end of the field. It's easier if your stake is a good bit taller than your mule. Use your hames and/or your horses ears as a sight. Keep the stake in the center and drive straight to it.wortk your way across your garden spot.
Well now you've got a piece a ground with evenly spaced furrows across it. Use a middlebutster or a big bulltongue to lay off your rows. Now either put your compost or fertilizer down in the furrow, and take your turn plow and make a pass up and downthe furrow, thus making a ridge.
In some places you wont need much of a ridge, in some you will, it depends on the type of soil you have and the lay of your land. If you've a real wet piece of land you want a big ridge, if not a smaller one is all right. If you are planting corn, you want a smaller ridge, if your planting sweet potatoes you might want make an extra pass when you fidge your row. You will havwe to decide that. ANother thing about ridges is that you can bust them out again and reridge them to keep ahead of the weeds, if you dont plant all your garden at once.
Your going to have to teach your horse to walk on top of the ridge to use a planter,on a ridge. He'll have to get use to walking in a furrow to use a guano distributor. To use a staddling harrow one needs to walk their horse on one side of the row and hold the harrow on top of the row,or you can work it on the side. A one horse peanut weeder is a wonderful tool for weeding stuff when its little. There are several different type of cutlivators that do a good job, it largely depends on whats availble in your part of the country. I am used to sweep stocks,planet jr harrows,5 and 7 shank cultivators, straddling harrows,siding harrows, and turn plows.
I am rambling, its possible to work a garden with just a one horse turn plow if you know what to do with it, especially if you can find some of the small wings they used to make to turn a plow into a half a sweep. A sweep stock, a middlebuster, a planet jr harrow, and a planter are nice additions to your line up. A peanut weeder, a fertilize distributor,a section of spike tooth harrow, a planet jr cultivator, a double shovel plow help you kick things up a notch. Helps you not have to hoe as much either.

First of all what do you have for a horse?
Second how big are you planning to make your garden.
I think you are going to need a small dish harrow especially if yor are plowing new ground,sod,. In a past issue of RH there was an artical on Horse Progress Days that showed a single horse pulling a disk harrow. I and J use to have one, I don'know if they still sell it. You should also have a drag to smooth the garden before planting and a sled or stone boat for picking stone, unless you are one of the lucky one's.
Plow east to west and plant north to south, giving the garden the most sun per row. It was recomended to me on the porch to space the roes 40 to 42 inched apart giving room for the horse and cultivator between rows.
Also you are going to have to allow 15 to 20 feet on all sides of the garden to turn your horse and also note that harrowing don't make the horse turn to tight. A 25 foot wide garden when harrowing is a very tight turn. I also like to use a spring tooth harrow to smooth the plowed ground. Hope this helps and most of all have fun. I am looking forward to spring so that I can put in my first garden only using horses. I worked on a 125 ac vegestable farm when I was a kid.
again good luck and have fun.

How about a planet Jr. style Wheel Hoe? They do a great job of cultivating close to the plant. I manufactor one that is just like the old Planet Jr.
I think it is even better. http://www.hosstools.com
I run the a single horse cultivator that I got from Buggyscott in the middles and use the wheel hoe for close work.

Thank you! I have a friend that contacted me and he is goig to try and help me get a 2 horse disc. Then he recommended that I take 2 of the discs off to make it light enough for one horse to pull for a while (8 discs) and then later when I get a second horse, I can add the 2 back and have a 2 horse disc again. Great idea, two for one.
I really appreciate the detail of your responses. Very helpful!

If your garden is big enough to support your family, the plow, disc, and harrow is all you really need thats horse drawn. Although depending on your ground some loam grounds dont need a disc.

An earth way planter does a decent job of planting, or even dropping seeds by hand.(we do some of each) A horse drawn planter is completely unneccessary in a garden.

I would second the recommendation of a planet jr small wheel hoe. We have two, on for the wife and one for me. Fast, effeicent, can get very close. Also you can lay out the rows very close 25-30" where most horse drawn implements need 40" + The little plow bottom is good for laying out rows and planting potatoes.

I took a piece of 1/2" Rod and welded on two small tabs to the ends with I think 3/8" holes drilled in them. Its bent in the center into a v shape and bolts onto the wheel axle of the planet jr. A single tree is hung from the front with a quick link.

When it rains real hard and our clay soil is packed down with a crust, my wife will carefully lead one of our appy mares down the rows while I drive the planet jr. Makes it easy to break up the crust and the riding size horse or a pony can get down the narrow rows. Normally this isn't necessary if you keep up with the cultivating but our our clay soils crust up hard with heavy rains. Loam or sandy ground wouldn't have the problem.

Beyond the list everyone else had mentioned, I would add only a goose neck hoe or two and you should be set. If you get a bull tongue layoff plow, try to get a tater plow sweep to bolt to it if you plan to raise potatoes. We just dig ours with a fork right now. I have turned them out with a turning plow.
I drag my garden with a section of chain link to help fine the soil some especially for a lettuce bed and things like that. I have also found that my horse is a bit clumsy in the garden and I like a wheel hoe to cultivate better than a horse. I also like my rows a little closer together. I do have high hopes for my new mule being better than the horse for cultivating in the garden. When I was a kid, after the garden was plowed and disked the horses were never allowed back in. We did all the cultivating with a wheel hoe and a goose neck. The corn fields and tobacco were the only thing cultivated with horses.

How big is your garden going to be ? A home veggie garden can mean anything from 5 tomato plants in the flower bed to 2 acres depending on who you are talking to. I had some people that asked me about useing horses to work their garden and didn't understand why I was laughing. This garden was about 15 feet wide and about 25 feet long totaly fenced around close enough you could use the fence to trellis beans on it. You could have gotten them in there but would have had a hard time just turning them around just to get them out. LOL.. Just curious

Some other things to think about if you are only using one horse and not a team. There has been a good bit of discussion on here about implements suited to single horse use so I would do a search here and read all you can find. Your soil type makes a good bit of difference on what type and style of equipment for single horse use also. If you are not handy at fixing, repairing, welding and restoring things either buy new or make sure it is in good working condition. That bargain piece of equipment may not be such a bargain after the wreck it causes!!! If ya know what I mean.

I have a weird mix os sizes for the garden spots. That is because I am an over eager teamster that wants to use his horse, so I am the community voluntter in my "neighborhhod" of old farms. The garden spot I just finished plowing was 1/2 acre or so. I have two smaller ones that will probably be the size of a large home garden, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 acre. The largest spot will be corn only and it is 3 acres.
Soil type is clay and rocky. The first spot I have finished wasnt' terrible though becasue it was plowed last year by a tractor. Same with some of the others, but they still have a considerable amount of small subserface rocks.

Do most people prefer a spike or spring tooth harrow? Or does it matter?

You need a garden hoe , that's all I ever use to lay off rows , use both feet to cover up seed . Need Rastus plow to plow out rows . Hope I spelled that right .With what you have should be enough .

A good hoe is a big help,and you can't buy a decent hoe anymore. They are all to thick bladed. Look around at your local flea markets and antiques stores and buy good forged hoes. When I started out on my own I had to do that to get tools of the quality I was used to. Cheaper too. I got three #2 Fox shovels for about $27, and they were in fine shape. One new one was almost $60.

Back to equipment.....If the sweep your talking about is the same thing I'm used to, well you can use it for a lot of you cultivating. When stuff is little a 24" or a 32" set shallow will sweep out your middles with one pass. If your horse will walk slow enough you can take a smaller sweep, say a 16" and sorta lean it to one side and shave of the side of your row. You can do the same with a siding harrow. You do need a good steady horse to do this.
You made need to slip over on your clevis to allow the horse to walk more in the middle and let your plow ease over closer to the row. Big hooves play havoc on tender plants. You made need to get a small 'layby' singletree, so you wont be dragging your plants the last few time you run out your middles.
One more thing, in a garden its always best to beat your weeds down when there little. A weed or hill a grass two inches high wont catch on your plow too bad,but a six inch to a foot weed can make plowing agrevating. Always try to cultivate before it looks like you need to.

If you are handy or know someone who is, you can make a good hoe with a mowing machine section. I also use a fire rake made from mowing machine sections on a piece of angle iron.

Once upon a time, I had a pretty large garden and used a one horse walking plow behind a morgan, then a harrow of the homemade spiked tooth kind. Other than that, I used a hoe and a pitchfork and a lot of manual labor. A planter, cultivator, etc. would have been luxury items for a home vegetable garden, but good for crops or a truck garden. Because I use mulch, I no longer plow at all.

Rastus Plow- Yes the Rastus plow could "pull" dirt right up to each plant just the way Rastus the hired hand could do with a hoe. But, in order to do this and avoid the horse,mule or farmer stepping on plants at the end of the rows, which invariably ended close to the fence, a complex pattern is involved.In other words you could not turn directly into the next row in the short area next to the fence without stepping on plants. You had to turn and walk the mule down a couple of rows into your next pass. Remember, the Rastus threw dirt always to plants on the right. In order to avoid the sharp turns you had to make eight (8) passes, twice between each of two rows. I am 84 and at 12 years old in Nicholas Co. KY I worked a bay horse named Barney with no lines, only gee and haw. Because of the complex pattern and getting tired I reckon, i'd get to the next turn and say "gee" but Barney knew better, turn his head around and look at me as if to say, "Dumb kid, what does he know about runnin' a Rastus", and turn left! On the sixth to seventh run you cross past three rows. Draw it out on paper and try it!