daugen
Epic Contributor
Drew, since the tractor operator was pulling a disk. Did he get your leased area ready to plant potatoes?
now I knew someone would be smart enough to catch this. Yes! So as much as I grumped at the guy for pulling out my stakes, not just driving around them........., my brain was multitasking thinking about what I had been told just the day before. Might as well disc it vs mowing it, reincorporate a little organic matter. So now he did half of it. But I do have to take the 100 foot tape measure back out, the hand sledge and poles, and do it all over again.
I'll have to disc the whole area again in the Spring, but since I'm doubling the amount of potatoes, shooting for two tons this year vs one ton (2300#) the area I previously planted corn in will now be all potatoes. This time meticulously cultivated with the Super A, weeds kept better at bay, and only about six items grown instead of 50. Simplifying and going for more production per vegetable. More okra, more regular green bell peppers, more food the average person wants vs some gourmet weird stuff I tried to grow. Tomatoes are too high maintenance here in the coastal South. Also trying to redo this charity garden to reduce weeding to minimum. Lots more heavy duty landscape cloth going down.
I don't have any kind of seeder other than a small drop seeder with a spike wheel. And a fertilizer flinger. Hard to get a legume seed planted that I can till back in before planting in March. So now that my field is ripped up, back to thinking about a cover crop.
Billy, what do you use? You do the food plots so this isn't much different.
I see Farm Tuff seed drills for $2k, and wonder if they are toys. A six foot Land Pride seeder is at least 7 grand. And this is just the very low end.
I need to stick with something simple. That little four foot drop seeder with spike wheel might be worth a try, pull it with the Gravely garden tractor which has ag tires on it.
now I knew someone would be smart enough to catch this. Yes! So as much as I grumped at the guy for pulling out my stakes, not just driving around them........., my brain was multitasking thinking about what I had been told just the day before. Might as well disc it vs mowing it, reincorporate a little organic matter. So now he did half of it. But I do have to take the 100 foot tape measure back out, the hand sledge and poles, and do it all over again.
I'll have to disc the whole area again in the Spring, but since I'm doubling the amount of potatoes, shooting for two tons this year vs one ton (2300#) the area I previously planted corn in will now be all potatoes. This time meticulously cultivated with the Super A, weeds kept better at bay, and only about six items grown instead of 50. Simplifying and going for more production per vegetable. More okra, more regular green bell peppers, more food the average person wants vs some gourmet weird stuff I tried to grow. Tomatoes are too high maintenance here in the coastal South. Also trying to redo this charity garden to reduce weeding to minimum. Lots more heavy duty landscape cloth going down.
I don't have any kind of seeder other than a small drop seeder with a spike wheel. And a fertilizer flinger. Hard to get a legume seed planted that I can till back in before planting in March. So now that my field is ripped up, back to thinking about a cover crop.
Billy, what do you use? You do the food plots so this isn't much different.
I see Farm Tuff seed drills for $2k, and wonder if they are toys. A six foot Land Pride seeder is at least 7 grand. And this is just the very low end.
I need to stick with something simple. That little four foot drop seeder with spike wheel might be worth a try, pull it with the Gravely garden tractor which has ag tires on it.
. Went to Harbor F. across the road and picked up a few small items, including some soft goat leather gloves for my wife, then next door to TSC to get a new frisbee for the poor skunk dog as a "get well" gift. Hit the gym and the gas station and got home by lunch time. 
