Plowing

Thanks Susan, that's great! I can see why you wouldn't want to 'plow out' every year... or at least I imagine I can. =0) Yep, the terracing I can see around here is countour, very slight and one place I know was planted to corn and pumpkins (among other things, I expect) year after year and what you say makes sense.

Oh phooey on Jimmy... convert a bigger planter... LOL riiiiiight. I nearly killed my self getting the blade off a lawn mower to sharpen it. I not wildly mechanically inclined. Oh well.

Sorry to hear about your tender plants, that's a bummer. I'd bring you some; I've got hundreds... it's such a drive from here to there. =0( I'd love to visit and see all your old equipment. Have Jimmy show me how a planter works... see, how could I convert a bigger one, I'm not even sure how one works. =0)

We did get about 6" of snow, and even tried turning it under with a shovel in our pea patch. LOL I just kept thinking... this would look nicer with a plow, not all hilly and lumpy. But we'll see if it helps the peas.

This message was edited Mar 30, 2009 6:54 AM

I have a few more I can put out and I'm going to start some in flats, it may be july before I get them in the ground but the one year I brought home all the garden plants our feed store had left and gave me because they were going to throw them away did really good, had more tomatoes than I knew what to do with,lol. A planter works on the same principle as the fertilizer spreaders, but it has a narrow cone on the bottom to funnel the seeds into a farrow and it only lets a few out at a time. I forget how it would be if I didn't have my husband to make stuff. I find metal yard art or something metal that I want and either make him go look at it or I take a picture or get a picture off the internet and show him and he builds it. We have to figure out how to get a fin weilded back on the wind mill where the wind blew it off and took the top off. One of the boys will have to come and climb it for us and help, which its nice all our kids can weild and build or machinc on stuff even the girls. I'll see if I can get some of the stuff he's built for my yard down loaded. This is one of his tractor's in our fair parade here, that's us on it.

here's the arbor he built for me, Susan

Jay, we used to have a neighbor girl who would rake hay for her dad every summer. She ran a TO 20. She was about 15 and of course knock down gorgeous. I was only 13 and her dad liked me so I was asked to "help out " during haying. I became the envy of all the neighboring boys but it sure stung when I could only ride instead of showing off my manly driving skills.
Funny I hadn't thought of her for quite a number of years. Se what you caused. Thanks!

Oh yeah, Huffy, I'm a big instigator! LOL You're not the first to say I'm a troublemaker... but remembering drop dead gorgeous hardly seems like trouble! =0) I read that story thinking you were gonna tell us you married her. That's what woulda happened in a country song. LOL

Susan, love the pics. =0) I sure wish they'da taught girls welding when I was in high school; although I was so horse crazy then I'm not sure I woulda been interested. Leather working, yes. Carpentry, yes. Cars, no. Welding, ?

I'm from the generation that for girls the choice was home ec or language. So I took spanish. =0)

I've posted the next bit of the pamphlet, When to Plow, in Plowing 2... come on over!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/969137/

This message was edited Mar 31, 2009 7:47 AM

Jay, No I didn't marry her, She was in Michigan and we moved home to Missouri (my birth state). I never saw her again. I married a sweetheart here in Missouri and now live within 3 blocks of where I was birthed. Now that would make a good country song.
From personal experience, don't pick up welding as a career. As the old Tom T Hall song goes "There ain't no money in it and it'll lead you to an early grave". I've been a maintenance welder for nigh on 20 years and have experienced the down side of skin cancer, bright lights, hot embers, and bad fumes, and it ain't all that pretty. Have you used the Spanish? Our small rural town has been overwhelmed with Hispanics. They are working in our poultry, frozen food, and pork industries. Now that's a culture shock.
And just why are most girls horse crazy?

It's about power and beauty.

I live in New Mexico, have since I was 12, some 40 years ago. This is an Hispanic culture first and foremost (the Native Americans here having been overwhelmed in numbers), so no shock. There is tension between the old Hispanic families that trace their ancestry to the conquistadors and the 'new comers' from Mexico.

I was never any good at Spanish, but I did learn how to pronounce it properly, so that's nice. I am really hopeless at languages... my sister became fluent in both Spanish and Japanese. It'd sure be handy around here... at this point, someone from Mexico works harder than an American... they show up on time, they don't waste time, they're motivated and they don't give you attitude. Where I'm at, it's hard to find an American that's conscientious, polite, and reasonable.

I have noooo intention of welding as a career, but it would sure be handy to know around the homestead. I'm forever seeing plans of simple little devices to weld for the 'stead but I don't know how to. =0(

Now, when you reply, would you please go to the new Plow 2 thread? This one is taking a long time to load. Please?

=0) Jay