Seed in ground, crossing fingers

I got my acre of sunflowers in last evening/night, so am crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. the weather has been really cooperative this year, and gave me a few weeks of hot and dry which let me do a meaningful fallow at a time of year where this might have been hard. Then, when the grass was gone, rain was in the forecast, so I said this is a good time to plant. I have had really good luck planting before rain is forecast, so have made this a habit. The ground ended up as worked up as most plowed ground is (thought not as deep), so I don’t know if I would call this min-till in the end. The number of time I went of this field are many, but I was getting rid of quackgrass and this was tough. In the end, I went 1. heavy disc 2. heavy disc (other direction) 3.springtooth harrow (largely ineffective) 4.cultivator with wide sweeps 5. cultivator with wide sweeps (other direction) 6.spike tooth harrow 7. springtooth harrow and 8. spike tooth harrow. Alot of operations, but the harrowing is very fast and I think the varying actions of these different tools was very helpful in getting rid of much of the quackgrass. I particularly like the action of alternating the spring tooth and spike tooth harrow at the end to fluff then level. I ended up planting with a earthway seeder, which was just alright. I like the way it meters seed and the furrow opening action was passable. It does a crappy job at closing the furrow, though, and the press wheel is useless. I will likely end up fiddling with it (as is my way) to fix these issues. I marked the rows with long strands of twine that I ran between step in posts. If you have two strands of twine, and move the posts on one end every time you reach the end of the row, than you don’t have to cross the field again the reset the posts. This system makes for arrow straight rows and the twine is easy to see. Just thought I would share.