Now that we have the new tractor, we finally started prepping one of the plots for planting. Hubby hooked up the harrower to the tractor and then "broke up" the very hard earth on the west side plot. We were unsuccessful in our attempt to till this area up last week... so the virgin soil needed to be harrowed by the large discs on the harrower. (I cannot begin to tell how hard the ground was in this clover plot... Hubby fought our large tiller trying to dig into the red clay last week - to no avail.) So what was a beautiful matured red clover deer plot before...
Is now a nice turned over, broken planting area for us to till up this week and then start our fruit trees and bushes planting this weekend!
I am hopeful we are able to get this area ready to auger holes for our new apple trees, plum trees and blueberry bushes!
