Posted by Harold hubbard on May 24, 2009 at 08:15:28 from (216.114.167.122):
Dad and I had potatoes on this field in the early seventies. After that it was tilled up and left, it grew a good crop of "Buck Rowen" ( green weeds and a little grass), the first year, then we cut the native grasses for hay for a few more years, but the goldenrod and steeplebush took over, and about the time we went to a mower conditioner and a kicker baler we gave it up. I continued to mow it over every year, as that is required by the land owner. Two years ago in the fall I decided that I had had enough of that, and plowed it up, last year I couldn't put much time into it, but I disked it a couple times. This spring I went right at it, disked twice, picked the rocks, got a backhoe, picked the big rocks, harrowed, picked the rocks again. A neighbor spread 3 ton/acre of wood ash and some manure for me. Spring toothed it multiple times, there was still too much trash on the surface.
I disked it again and kept pulling teeth off the harrow until it would finally go around with out plugging. Picked the rocks AGAIN.
Last weekend we were interrupted by two inches of rain, it dried out enough by Tuesday afternoon so I could get back on it. I spread oats and fertilizer Wednesday afternoon, while I was scratching that in, a turkey came out and started eating the oats. Thursday I put down Timothy and red clover seed with the Brillion seeder, The boys came home from school and picked up rocks again. Friday I went over it again with a crowbar and popped up a few more rocks, we carried them off with a car hood to keep from disturbing the ground. Yesterday we went back and marked the rocks that won't move, so I won't hit them with the mower. As my father used to say "There must be a a Chinaman holding the other end of that one".
I have been sweating bullets to get this done and green before we get a heavy rain. I plowed and worked it mostly on the contours, but made the last passes with the harrow around and around, as if I were mowing. I planted on the contour, which will hold light rains OK, but I hope we get just showers until the oats get going.
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