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A Busy Spring Day in PeeeAaaa (picture heavy)

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Mows4three

I like your corner of PA, Ed.  But, I gotta tell you, those are some big black snakes in those pictures.   Dang!  Hate to tangle with one of them.  Ha!

 

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Achto

What a difference between there & here. You can just start to see the rows popping up in most of corn fields up here.

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The Tuul Crib

Good lookin crops !! Sweet corn and 

 Sauerkraut !!    MMMMM !! Hey the herd looks great too! 

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Ed Kennell

The sweet corn was planted under plastic and in 2 weeks it was about 4-5 inches tall and pushing up the plastic,  The plastic was then pulled off and the irrigation piping was rolled out.

When he started to feed the fertilized water, the corn really took off.    For the cabbage, the piping was laid first, the plastic was put down, then the cabbage seedlings were planted thru the plastic by hand with a "wagon wheel" planter  where the spokes of the wagon wheel poked the holes and injected liquid fertilizer in each hole.  A plant was then stuck I each mud hole.

 

Planting cabbage thru the plastic.   Look close, you can see Mrs. Fisher sitting low behind the planter.

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Installing the piping in the corn.

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A line was pulled down each pair of rows.

 

 

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The Tuul Crib

Simple life ! I envy these people. They are 

hard workers . The ones up in lowa where 

l grew up didnt use electricity cars or tractors true horse power. Any ideas what they are fertilizing with ?

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formariz

Looks like you live next to Heaven.

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Pullstart

Here, most fields are still too wet to plant :(

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ACman

:text-yeahthat:.... not much planted around here and what they did get in is under water or washed away . Don’t know how the farmers are going to make it especially when prices are already low .

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Stormin

Looks a grand place to live, Ed.:thumbs: Wish I had so much room to play in. Not that I'm envious one little bit. :rolleyes:

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lynnmor

I have Amish farming on two sides of my property, you don’t want to know how those fields are fertilized.  :sleeping-drool:

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Jennifer
6 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

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Then took my first WH...the C-120 Tecky for a ride and mowed some trails.

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My Amish neighbor has the entire farm planted and irrigated with fertilized water.    The sweet corn and cabbage show the results.

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The big corporate farmer that leases the adjacent farm spreads  dry granular fertilizer on his field corn.

 

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Heading home.

 

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To find the corn being sprayed.

 

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           Just another day in the neighborhood!       Thanks for riding along.

Is that a front mount tiller I see?  Would love to see a picture of that view!

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Ed Kennell

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Don't try to buy one.     I made this one from a walk behind tiller and a plow frame.   One of a kind.

 

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Jennifer
On 6/6/2019 at 4:17 PM, Ed Kennell said:

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Don't try to buy one.     I made this one from a walk behind tiller and a plow frame.   One of a kind.

 

How do you like it?  Work well?

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Ed Kennell

For tilling around the buildings where I have blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, and flower beds, it works great.    I can easily see what I am tilling.   I actually pull in close to the building and  till in reverse..     For a large open garden, it would not be as efficient as a larger rear mounted tiller.

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jammankel

is that a front mount tiller?

 

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Ed Kennell
1 hour ago, jammankel said:

is that a front mount tiller?

 

Sure is, read the posts above yours.

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