Weekend Overview
Apr. 23rd, 2018 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeSo this past weekend I went to my parents' farm to set up my field and get some planting done of the spring crops. They're ahead of where I'm currently living by a week or so. Last weekend's weather was sunny and beautiful for them, while it was thirty degrees colder here.
Saturday I had to wait for the ground to thaw from the overnight freeze then I disked it. I was going to rototill because I thought I would need a fine seedbed for the earthway seeder. I planted my oats to test this and the only issue I ran into was the occasional deep spot the planter would get stuck in. So I tied a rachet strap to the from of the planter and just used that to pop the front of the planter up when it would get stuck. Definitely saved me time because even though I was a little slower planting, it was still faster than taking the time to rototill the whole area.
I planted all the peas of which I have Many, three oat varieties, two barley varieties, three ish carrot varieties, a clover variety I want to harvest seed from, aaaand the potatoes
I wasn't 100% sure on the potatoes but the weather is going to be really nice this week, warm enough that I figured I could get them in. Otherwise I'd have to wait two weeks. Worst case, my parents throw a frost cover over them. And if I screwed them up oh well.
I also laid out all the plots and got dutch clover seeded into the aisles.
I was going to plant the garbanzos but I don't know if they tolerate frost so I'm waiting a bit on them.
I'll be heading back down in two weeks or so to weed, check on things, plant the garbanzos. Then sometime in May I'll plant everything else.
Saturday I had to wait for the ground to thaw from the overnight freeze then I disked it. I was going to rototill because I thought I would need a fine seedbed for the earthway seeder. I planted my oats to test this and the only issue I ran into was the occasional deep spot the planter would get stuck in. So I tied a rachet strap to the from of the planter and just used that to pop the front of the planter up when it would get stuck. Definitely saved me time because even though I was a little slower planting, it was still faster than taking the time to rototill the whole area.
I planted all the peas of which I have Many, three oat varieties, two barley varieties, three ish carrot varieties, a clover variety I want to harvest seed from, aaaand the potatoes
I wasn't 100% sure on the potatoes but the weather is going to be really nice this week, warm enough that I figured I could get them in. Otherwise I'd have to wait two weeks. Worst case, my parents throw a frost cover over them. And if I screwed them up oh well.
I also laid out all the plots and got dutch clover seeded into the aisles.
I was going to plant the garbanzos but I don't know if they tolerate frost so I'm waiting a bit on them.
I'll be heading back down in two weeks or so to weed, check on things, plant the garbanzos. Then sometime in May I'll plant everything else.
