Mostly Successful Stale Seed Bedding. 56 Acre Vegetable Farm.

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Mostly Successful Stale Seed Bedding

56 Acre Vegetable Farm

Grandchild Certified

We sell at our Stand, NFM, local Restaurants, Stores, Schools, & Summer Camps

30,000 lbs. of Tomatoes

Over $100,000 in Greens

FRUSTRATION!!

GOAL

Consistency

OATS mow in fall and manure

TONS OF WEED SEEDS

Soil Preparation Subsoil entire farm early spring. Breaks up hard pan. Doesn’t turn soil Apply heifer manure at rate of 20 tons per acre & rotovate once. Composting parts C:1 part N. Dairy Manure 17:1 (low bedding). Ours is high bedding. Not going to tie up and not going to leach No Fertilizer Broadcast.

Garden Way’s “Joy of Gardening” by Dick Raymond

Williams $2,400

Basket Weeder Key component

Lely Tine Weeder

Dedicated Tractor

Tractor speeds of 5 mph.

3 to 6 weeks ideal

THREAD STAGE 2 passes

1 st Seeding of the year can’t do much

Root Crop Seedings and Weed Pressure 4/23100% 5/82 wks 75% 2x 5/295 wks 25% 5x 6/18 8 wks 10% 8x

ok

IDEAL

6/18 Crop

Grow more