Next year's field, ready to go

 Re-posted from another site, this post was made Sept 2, 2018

I got it plowed and disked today. I probably could have planted it but I want to wait two weeks and then disk again. Hopefully this will kill a decent amount of weeds in the white thread stage, where any soil disturbance will kill them. I think this will be a semi-permanant field for me. My dad said the east side of the field is pretty rocky so it ends up being 2/3 acre of really good land and 1/3 rocks. 

My plan is to split it into thirds with one third being cover cropped all year in 2019, one third in grains and one third in vegetables. 

Next time I'm here, I'm going to plant in the cover crops for each section and start prepping beds for the fall planted crops like garlic and a few other things that I'm experimenting with. 

Here's my crop plan so far. I designed the field how it appears in google earth, the picture above is taken from the north facing south so it's the opposite. 


 

I'm going to run my rows east/west because I'm going to have a large variety of different types of plants, so some things being trellised, some things needing wider spacing. So I'll have 150 foot rows east west and 280 feet north south to work with. 

In total it is an acre. It's pretty nice soil too. I'm excited!

Also I now have access to the drone so drone pictures are happening so much.