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ParticipantNoah,
I’ve got a non horse way that worked out well last fall. I had a spot about 20×95 that we could not get to with a plow or horses. I have a Bobcat with a manure grapple. The teeth on the bottom of the grapple are about 6″ apart and about 24″ long. I just stuck those down as far as they would go and rocked the Bobcat a bit, then picked up the big glob of soil and dropped it back down. Went over the whole bed that way, breaking it down 20″ or so. Used the Troy Bilt Horse and planted carrots, radishes, onions for this years sets and peas. Best darned fall carrots I’ve ever seen. Onion sets, radishes, great. Peas got frosted out about a week before they were good. Got a bunch for stir fry though.At the ‘big end’ of the garden we just had plowed and disked, then made raised beds with the middle breaker plow and raked the tops of the beds. Nice carrots, good weed crop too…the heavy rains prevented us from weeding as well as we should have. Lost almost 5,000 garlic to the flooding.
God bless and good luck.
MikeThis whole site seems to have moved over to facebook, you will get a lot more replies there. I don’t like facebook but that is the way things are going.
ParticipantHi,
What happened to the forum? I know there were other posts within the last five months.Something wrong with the website forum?
God bless.
Mike Rock
ParticipantCarl,
Great point. Thanks for the reminder!God bless.
Snowing now…first real snow of the winter.
Mike
November 15, 2017 at 6:41 pm in reply to: can I grow and save multiple variteties of corn seed? #95889ParticipantHa ha!!! Boy, the coons have the outside three rows pretty beat up in places……and the conventional chemical field north of my Wapsie Valley is ‘almost’ untouched. The deer take what they can but prefer mine. The Bloody Butcher is especially tasty it seems. Ground a little Silver King and it is great stuff. When we get all 14 acres of the OP stuff in palletainers to dry some more and use for grinding it will be a good year. The totes fit on top of a frame that feeds down into the mills.
God bless.
OP!!! Only way to go. Vaughn at Green Haven will help all he can.
November 14, 2017 at 8:49 am in reply to: can I grow and save multiple variteties of corn seed? #95883ParticipantRon,
You are exactly right. OP is a mix of many strains of the same corn. We have stalks from 8 to 13 feet tall on all the varieties we grow. Ear sizes and kernel counts vary. Went for a little field walk yesterday after this topic came up and found perfectly dry ears in the majority of cases, I had just hit the odd damp one when I pulled the first samples. The farmer who has a rented field next to us notices some purple in his….it’s a half mile to our Bloody Butcher!November 13, 2017 at 12:27 pm in reply to: can I grow and save multiple variteties of corn seed? #95875ParticipantYou should not have any trouble. I have Bloody Butcher, Wapsie Valley and Silver King going and no problems. Organic. We’ll start combining in a few weeks. With all the humidity things are drying slowly. Neighbors with conventional corn are also using driers. Looks like our area of southern Wisconsin is about 50-60% harvested.
Drop me a note.God bless.
Mike
ParticipantCan’t see the photo, and I am logged in.
I might be interested in this. Where are you at?God bless
ParticipantI did a search of my old mails and found them…
Market Gardeners, living (or did until last week) in Cochrane, Dominica.Karen
Roots Farm Organic Produce
Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs
Cochrane, DOMINICAsend some prayers their way if you will.
God bless.
ParticipantCarl,
I forgot how to post and can’t find out how. How is Erika down on Dominica doing in the storms?God bless.
Mike Rock
ParticipantMan, that thing has more teeth than a Cheshire Cat!
ParticipantI have an unused 26″ collar, it cost me 125 two years ago. Badger Collar.
God bless.
ParticipantA horse drawn McCormick horse drawn, wooden wheeled drill sold here this fall for $25. Nice shape, original paint. Wish I’d have known…… rats.
God bless
ParticipantGive a teenaged kid a pair of nunchucks….. that’s what they are for anyway, not cracking skulls.
Participanthttps://www.google.com/search?q=pland+for+hay+wagon+bed+for+farm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
That’ll keep you busy for a while!! Some good stuff.
ParticipantSure wish you were closer to Wisconsin :))
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