Seeding!!

Last Saturday Cristina and I went up to our farm and seeded the entire field that was plowed by my Uncle with winter rye grass. It was a interesting adventure because all we had was about 112 Lb of Seed and a little hand seeder and a sporty 4wheeler. What we did was I drove the 4wheeler and Cristina sat on the back with one of the bags and seeded as I drove across the field. It took us 4 hours to completely cover the field with the winter Rye. My uncle had this wire mesh that we though might work to gently and lightly cover the new seed with dirt but it ended up dragging the seed with it and didnt do what we wanted. So we got the  disc harrow and adjusted it so it ever so lightly disturbed the soil. I spent about 45 minutes driving up and down the field and then across is so it would lightly cover the seed with soil.



there is another plot of land that my Uncle is going to plow up for us to rock pick and seed before the end of this month.

~Andrew

Farm work

So today Me and Cristina "kidnapped" two of the boys to go rock picking in the freshly plowed field.
We had a little difficulty at first trying to get the "Quick-attach" forks off the tractor so we could put the bucket on. But after a little persuasion and threatening with a sledge hammer we got it off. We took the bush mower off the back and we were ready to roll! It was a nice day out to be working and the field surprisingly didnt have a lot of rocks in it. We were able to do the entire field which is about a acre in a hour, thats good time!! Cristina works over at butternut on the other side of the ridge and it usually takes her about two, two-and-a-half hours to pick rocks out of a freshly plowed field like ours. The field we were working in was the best plot out of the land though so I'm sure that there will be more rocks to pick in our future.

 We were happy to see that the Herbicide that we had laid down last weekend did its job in killing all the plants we sprayed it on. The field just has to be disced some more with that green disk harrower you see in the picture.