Round Two

In for dinner. Started the second go-'round at the summer fallow today. Should have been out there last week when all the neighbors were going, I guess.

Finding sunflowers the size of small import cars. :>)

Nice part is that there is now plenty of ground moisture and that tough old sod finally gave up the ghost and is mellowing down pretty darned nice.

Allan

When I was a little boy, I can remember my mom hanging a sheet out on the clothes line so that my dad, who was cultivating at the far corner of the place, knew when it was dinner time. :>)

I've gotta get my wife to the eye doctor too. The other day she was wondering if we should run out to the pasture (1/2 mile away) to check on the pumpjack and make sure it was running so the cattle had plenty of water.

I told her it was fine as I could see it pumping. She said she couldn't even see the well, let alone the water coming out of the pipe. :>)

Allan

I am always amazed at the power needed to work that land out there....lookin good!

It is so dry out here that on average, there is only enough moisture to raise a crop every other year.

So, we let the ground "rest" and gather strenth for one summer planting hard red winter wheat in the fall.

Also, it helps with the fertilizer issue by leting the ground lie dormant the better part of one year.

Trouble is, the weeds keep growing anyways, so they have to be controlled thruout the "layby" time.

Allan

The pictures just don't do it justice. The field is literally green with weeds, most of ‘em small.

After a rain, if we don't till the ground, it can blow, so the working of the ground actually serves two purposes.

Yes, there are those (not many around here, tho) that use the herbicides and just let the ground stay in last year’s wheat stubble until planting time the following fall.

Trash farming has always struck me the same way as same-sex unions and inter-racial marriages. Might be in vogue, fashionable and the “in thing” to do nowadays.

I just don't like it and it's not for me, thanks. I’ll put ‘er back into buffalo grass first. :>)

Allan

This chunk of ground is a damned mountain range to me.

I kinda miss farming the irrigated place, but it's rented out fer the time being.

What's a guy to do? Up and down, up and down all day long. :>)

Allan

I'm like a kid in a free candy shop postin pictures.

It is drizzly here today.Thats my excuse and I'm stickin to it.