Moving right along with the field
May. 5th, 2018 04:24 pmI got a good bit done today. I weeded basically everything, some areas by hand and some with the weird rototiller. The oats got murdered by something, maybe weather or nematodes or whatever so I replanted the rest of them broadcast and then rolled it with a barrel. Normally there's an actual piece of equipment to do that but I was being lazy so I just did a barrel.
My peas are all up, the other oat plots and the barley look good. Something was pulling the plants out of the vicar hulless oats I have, but I'm 99% sure that was birds eating the seed. Now that the plants are a little bigger they should survive that. The clover I planted in the aisles is looking good and the berseem clover I'm growing out for seed looks excellent.
I planted carrots but those sections are so full of lambsquarter that I don't know what to do there. I might just work the very top of the soil and see if the carrots will still come up. If that doesn't work I'll just turn those areas into something else.
I planted all my garbanzos today, four varieties. I also planted my two flax varieties.
Tomorrow I'm going to set up my irrigation.
My peas are all up, the other oat plots and the barley look good. Something was pulling the plants out of the vicar hulless oats I have, but I'm 99% sure that was birds eating the seed. Now that the plants are a little bigger they should survive that. The clover I planted in the aisles is looking good and the berseem clover I'm growing out for seed looks excellent.
I planted carrots but those sections are so full of lambsquarter that I don't know what to do there. I might just work the very top of the soil and see if the carrots will still come up. If that doesn't work I'll just turn those areas into something else.
I planted all my garbanzos today, four varieties. I also planted my two flax varieties.
Tomorrow I'm going to set up my irrigation.