Ed, those little tractors sure have appreciated.
Lot of seat time today. First I disc'd everything, including the adjacent farmer's field per request.
Then I decided the potato plow would work both for planting as well as harvest. Probably how it got it's name...aka middlebuster.
And it did fine, my rows were acceptably straight considering the Coriolis effect and the lunar pull.
Little Massey tied up with bush hog so used larger Massey which was really too big for this little plow. But it worked.
Tomorrow if it rains I'll be in the garage cutting up New Brunswick taters for planting.
I also worked in the veggie garden, spent about an hour raking the hills to look nice. My right arm is crying the blues.
Thankfully the soil is so soft it really doesn't take much to move around. Used up balance of several seeds by the oldest method possible.
Take a stick and make a row, sprinkle in the row, cover. Onions I'll have to thin, lettuce should be fine.
The 49hp Massey just soldiered on today, off came the discs, then on came the furrower, it never shut off, and like a faithful horse it kept plugging away.
I finally got some gumption and got it going in first high with the disc harrow. Tried to get a little action with the soil, but still a bit damp and lumpy.
Got done faster... the last guy who farmed this went so fast i thought he was pursued by bees or something...
Lastly, I hooked up the rototiller to the Gravely and went over and made a fine fluffy seedbed for my farmer neighbor for his own garden.
Quite the view, it's that pile of left over greenhouse plastic my other neighbor and I got him to promise not to light off. He really was about to.
And over to the left is the true garden of earthly delights, my neighbor's junkyard aka storage area. That part goes on for quite a ways.
