{"id":52,"date":"2012-05-21T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/greggrows\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-05-21T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:45:50","slug":"farm-garden-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/greggrows\/2012\/05\/farm-garden-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Garden Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creating a 30×90 garden plot from an old horse pasture is no easy task. But I am getting there! It all started around the beginning of May. I chose the spot south of the machine shed where the barn further to the south does not shade it during the day. It should get plenty of sunlight. I sprayed the whole lot with glyphosate to kill off the weeds. Here’s what it looked like one week after spraying – the weeds are starting to yellow.<\/p>\n

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I let it sit another week and it turned into this:<\/p>\n

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I tried to till it up with my walk behind tiller, but the ground was so hard. One row took me over an hour.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately my good friend Mark lent me his pull behind tiller. It did a bang up job of breaking up the dirt.<\/p>\n

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We’ve had a few weeks without rain and the ground was so dry. I decided to water the newly tilled plot for a few hours. I let it sit overnight and then did a couple more passes over it with the tiller. Worked like a charm. The soil was loose and ready for planting. I spent the good part of a whole day planting seeds. I should finish it up by the end of the week. I’ll update with new photos after I get it all planted.<\/p>\n

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