Field Plan
Apr. 3rd, 2019 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeIt's just about done. I've got basically everything on there and all I've got left to do is move some things around to fill in weird empty spots.
So here's the reasonable looking part of the field. It's the grains section with the top (red) section being the spring crops and the bottom in green the summer crops. The F1-6 is the flax variety trial and I can plant everything spring with the little push planter or by hand broadcasting. The rice and sesame in the summer will be transplants. The soybeans at the bottom are mostly trap crops for the deer, they will eat the soybeans and leave everything else alone. Makes for a crap soybean harvest but I get enough to replant and I'll be happy. This field runs east west, like it's laid out here and the rows are 150 feet long by 4 ft width. The numbers to the right are the row numbers. I should be able to combine harvest the oats, although it depends on how soon I get the flax out of the way. Anything that isn't assigned anything will either get something extra put in or it will just be cover crop.
Here's where I think I'm nuts.
Red at the bottom is spring crops, green is summer crops. This is my vegetable stuff. I do want to grow all these things. I don't know if it's possible to do so. I've set it up so there will be one row of many crops so I can run down it with the tractor cultivator. A lot of these things, like the beans, I can leave go until they dry down and then harvest. I have no idea if I can do this but I really really want to try. I should be able to plant a bunch of things with my little push seeder but the tomatoes and peppers are all transplants. So I guess this weekend will be a test of how many rows I can get planted in x amount of hours and that way I can see how long the summer crops will take and maybe adjust accordingly. I suspect I will also ditch some of the squashes and melons because I don't think I'll have the patience to hand pollinate them to keep them pure breeding.
I haven't decided if I want to put the tomatoes, melons and peppers on black plastic. On one hand, it's great, on the other, a pain in the butt to hand lay it and I don't know if I'll be able to borrow my uncle's mulch layer without a lot of fuss in may. I think my dad said he has some biodegradable plastic but also that's expensive and I don't want to use a lot of it up so I might have to buy my own and: Expensive.
So uh yeah. This is my grand plan and it's probably not going to go well but we'll see. I mean, I cared for about 90 plots last year decently and I this is probably around 150 but I've got them set up better and also will be seeder planting them rather than hand planting for most. Weeding should be easier with the tractor and use of a mulch on the tomatoes, melons and peppers (plastic or straw) will help with that. idek. we'll see.
So here's the reasonable looking part of the field. It's the grains section with the top (red) section being the spring crops and the bottom in green the summer crops. The F1-6 is the flax variety trial and I can plant everything spring with the little push planter or by hand broadcasting. The rice and sesame in the summer will be transplants. The soybeans at the bottom are mostly trap crops for the deer, they will eat the soybeans and leave everything else alone. Makes for a crap soybean harvest but I get enough to replant and I'll be happy. This field runs east west, like it's laid out here and the rows are 150 feet long by 4 ft width. The numbers to the right are the row numbers. I should be able to combine harvest the oats, although it depends on how soon I get the flax out of the way. Anything that isn't assigned anything will either get something extra put in or it will just be cover crop.
Here's where I think I'm nuts.
Red at the bottom is spring crops, green is summer crops. This is my vegetable stuff. I do want to grow all these things. I don't know if it's possible to do so. I've set it up so there will be one row of many crops so I can run down it with the tractor cultivator. A lot of these things, like the beans, I can leave go until they dry down and then harvest. I have no idea if I can do this but I really really want to try. I should be able to plant a bunch of things with my little push seeder but the tomatoes and peppers are all transplants. So I guess this weekend will be a test of how many rows I can get planted in x amount of hours and that way I can see how long the summer crops will take and maybe adjust accordingly. I suspect I will also ditch some of the squashes and melons because I don't think I'll have the patience to hand pollinate them to keep them pure breeding.
I haven't decided if I want to put the tomatoes, melons and peppers on black plastic. On one hand, it's great, on the other, a pain in the butt to hand lay it and I don't know if I'll be able to borrow my uncle's mulch layer without a lot of fuss in may. I think my dad said he has some biodegradable plastic but also that's expensive and I don't want to use a lot of it up so I might have to buy my own and: Expensive.
So uh yeah. This is my grand plan and it's probably not going to go well but we'll see. I mean, I cared for about 90 plots last year decently and I this is probably around 150 but I've got them set up better and also will be seeder planting them rather than hand planting for most. Weeding should be easier with the tractor and use of a mulch on the tomatoes, melons and peppers (plastic or straw) will help with that. idek. we'll see.
