How Did Everyone’s Plowing Go This Spring?

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  • June 13, 2011 at 9:14 pm #42806
    TBigLug
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    Ours was wet and pretty much got ruined. Couldn’t even plow during our Memorial Day weekend get together. I went over to a buddy’s house and helped him plow his garden and got a couple days of plowing done at the farm. All in all maybe 5 acres total. Really bummed out. I ended up giving up on the old mare I was working Dottie with. Been looking around for a replacement and working Dottie with all of our other horses and several of the neighbor’s horses. I figure I’ll use one of the neighbor’s horses at the tree farm and work on finding another two year old at the fall Draft Horse Sale at Lake Odessa.

    June 14, 2011 at 12:13 am #67863
    mitchmaine
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    sounds like the same weather to me. it rained off and on all may here which is our plowing month. i scratched out our house gardens, but never got any oats in. we have some fall sowed spelt in and coming good for the rain, so i might use some of that for feed, but the wind and water here, with hail, thunder and lightning has been quite a show. tornados don’t happen here, john, but we have had two or three here this spring with all the damage you’d expect so nothin’ surprises me much anymore. good luck with your farming and crops. mitch

    June 14, 2011 at 3:18 am #67862
    Simple Living
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    Don’t feel bad John. I live about 20miles south of Adrian, Mi. and we had our share of rain too. It got so bad with work and rain that I gave up and hooked my Oliver #11 sulky plow to the back of my Simplicity garden tractor and plowed the garden just to get ‘r’ done. I guess thats what you call a mixed power operation. Or maybe just a mixed up one. I have 2 garden plots not 100yards apart. One had standing water in it and the other I had to water less than 3 days later because it was so dry. Go figure. Hope we can salvage what growing season we have left!! Take care.

    Gordon

    June 14, 2011 at 2:45 pm #67861
    near horse
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    I missed one of the plow days here as it was snowing and blowing a gale.

    At my place, it’s not dried out yet! We’re not getting the massive rains you all had in the midwest/east but it rains almost once every 24 to 36 hrs and we’ve broken the 70 degree mark about 3 times so far this spring. So no plowing w/ either horse or tractor.

    Gardens?! We haven’t done diddly with our garden. Too cold and wet.

    Grass is growing great though.

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