You might have thought this post was about the U of M Gophers. Nope, this is about the small furry kind.
Rabbits and deer run way too fast for our dog Cody to catch. That doesn't mean he doesn't keep trying.
We have a litter of pocket gophers that are just his speed and he frequently corners one above ground.
One morning I cornered one too in an unusual spot...
Showing posts with label tiller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tiller. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2015
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
A Trick for Weeding and Watering Transplants
One of our tricks to help with weeding is to plant our transplants in a trench made by our tiller. Why does this help?
Sunday, April 27, 2014
How to Till a Straight Row
I was out tilling for the first time of the season today. We use a large walk behind tractor with a 36 inch rototiller attachment.
She is a beauty, cobalt blue paint, 13 horsepower, live PTO and 3 speed transmission. It will till down full sized corn, virgin sod, small sapling trees, you name it, nothing can stop my tiller. Did you know that Ferrari made my tiller, yep she's an "import". Like Dave Ramsey says, "It is the Status Symbol of Choice" for Italian farmers. Funny thing is, it has a Honda engine. Well I'm not Italian, but it works good for Scandinavian farmers too.
I was making trenches for planting potatoes. Nope I didn't plant yet, even though Good Friday, the traditional day for planting potatoes, has come and gone. I got to thinking about how you get the tiller to make straight rows. Farmers pride ourselves on straight rows, especially when you are planting a crop. Because if you don't get the rows straight you have to look at crooked rows for a whole season. Plus if you get them too close together you can't till between them and the weeds take over.
I had a college age guy working for me a few years ago and he was the first of our hired farm workers that I had let run the tiller. He generally did OK, but there was a problem, he couldn't get the rows straight. Well I'm going to let you in on a secret that will change your life and help you get your rows straight.
She is a beauty, cobalt blue paint, 13 horsepower, live PTO and 3 speed transmission. It will till down full sized corn, virgin sod, small sapling trees, you name it, nothing can stop my tiller. Did you know that Ferrari made my tiller, yep she's an "import". Like Dave Ramsey says, "It is the Status Symbol of Choice" for Italian farmers. Funny thing is, it has a Honda engine. Well I'm not Italian, but it works good for Scandinavian farmers too.
I was making trenches for planting potatoes. Nope I didn't plant yet, even though Good Friday, the traditional day for planting potatoes, has come and gone. I got to thinking about how you get the tiller to make straight rows. Farmers pride ourselves on straight rows, especially when you are planting a crop. Because if you don't get the rows straight you have to look at crooked rows for a whole season. Plus if you get them too close together you can't till between them and the weeds take over.
I had a college age guy working for me a few years ago and he was the first of our hired farm workers that I had let run the tiller. He generally did OK, but there was a problem, he couldn't get the rows straight. Well I'm going to let you in on a secret that will change your life and help you get your rows straight.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Steel in the Field
Steel In the Field
A famous farming publication from the early 20th century was a book called “Steel in the Field”. It was a text on all the different ways you could use tillage for weed control. So this blog is about weed control, some with steel and some without.
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