Spring Is Just Around The Corner

Well, maybe spring is here and after last weeks post

about planting by the signs it seems a good time to

segue into how The Old Farmer planted his garden.

The old garden had been plowed under in the fall.

So come the spring it is plowed again to loosen up the soil,

disced the break it up and dragged to get out grass.

You had to wait until it wasn't too wet for these processes

or the soil would just clump and get hard.
You would take a handful of soil and squeeze it, if too wet
it formed a tight clump. if just right it was damp but broke up.
Dragging to get out the grass would help minimize how much would grow

competing with your garden (and having to hoe hoe hoe)

 The garden was laid out in neat rows using a long line.
The Old Farmer would hoe a trench along the line,
We would follow setting the seeds or plants
and he would follow and fill it back in.

He starting the rows with the shortest plants and going

to the tallest, which would be at the north end of the garden.
This was the corn so it would not shade whatever was next to it
and so on.

I think this fellow played in the plantain too long. He is all tuckered out!