1. Mostly Successful Stale Seed Bedding

2. 56 Acre Vegetable Farm

4. Grandchild Certified

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

8. 30,000 lbs. of Tomatoes

9. Over $100,000 in Greens

10. FRUSTRATION!!

11. GOAL

12. Consistency

13. OATS mow in fall and manure

14. TONS OF WEED SEEDS

15. 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 24-40 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.

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

19. Williams $2,400

22. Basket Weeder Key component

23. Lely Tine Weeder

24. Dedicated Tractor

25. Tractor speeds of 5 mph.

26. 3 to 6 weeks ideal

27. THREAD STAGE 2 passes

28. 1 st Seeding of the year can’t do much

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

31. ok

32. IDEAL

33. 6/18 Crop

34. Grow more