Saturday, April 12, 2014

That's me!  I'm tilling the north end of the field in preparation for seeding a cover crop.  The soil has suffered for about 100 years from growing, cutting and adding chemical fertilizer when stuff won't grow.  We are going to till the vegetation into the soil and grow some wheat which will get tilled into the ground (mostly).  After two seasons, we will move on to the next ten acres.  (We are thinking we may harvest some grain for the chickens.)






This is Brandon, our employee.  He is weeding the garden.  That looks like a row of garlic coming up to the right.  Yesterday, he planted more garlic.  The garlic I planted in the fall will be harvested in July.  We will see when garlic planted in April is ready.  There is a lot to learn and the garden is our teacher.


A few posts back, I showed you a picture of the hole I dug to expose the irrigation main line so a flow meter could be installed.  Here it is after the installation.  Note, the meter is new and reads almost zero.  We did test for leaks so it isn't quite zero.



No comments:

Post a Comment