Monday, May 18, 2009

Gardening the Rural way

The  Time comes every year , and every year we are late but Yesterday the decision was made that the garden must be tilled for planting.

 

Its nice to have a garden plot bigger than the archive of Pelosi’s truthful statements so we used an abandoned earthen inslage pit to shield from the winds we get . 

 

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First order of business is to get rid of the dammed Russian thistles ( Tumbleweeds ) as easily as possible so fire is involved .

 

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As you can see it did a “ fair “ job  with most of the dead matter too thick to till .

 

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Next you need to actually till the ground . We prefer a Garden tractor for this so here is ours .

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First you must prepare the ground for tilling breaking it up a bit so it will till to a useable depth without big clods .

 

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Then a couple of passes with this ….

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and you get this..

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One more pass with the original implement.

 

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and you have the ground ready for planting including rows laid out for corn .

 

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Drop the seed in , cover and water with either sprinkler hose or soaker drip hose and your in business .

 

That folks is how you might choose to do it if you farm .

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