Spring Field Work
While the calendar indicates spring is here, March and April temperatures are closer to February than May by a long shot.
The winter of 2018 brought with it the kind of weather that the fields are least able to handle. Case in point: rain on frozen ground. Without any absorbency by the ground, 100 percent of the water runs. It runs downhill, of course, gaining energy, speed, volume and destructive ability. The result was a lot of gully erosion in the valleys, some even where grass waterways existed.
So, as soon as we could, we went to work with three or four different implements to close, shape, seed and incorporate the seed. This was to make not only the field navigable again, but to establish or re-establish grass waterways to hold and stabilize the ground in the event of such negative weather happening again.
This work is now done. We are waiting for that first 60 or 70 degree day to start the soil warming process so planting can ensue by April 15.