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samn40

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Yesterday was St Patrick's day and we traditionally like to have a few early potatoes planted by this date. On Saturday I ploughed my garden with my trusty old hobby tractor I bought a few years ago for $60......
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Yesterday we covered the patch with well rotted cow muck and gave it one pass with a rotavator, raised some drills and found the soil to be in good enough order to use the Ferguson Bell planter.......65 year old technology!
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My two boys sat on the planter and dropped a spud every time the bell rang....
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Job done, now we have to watch for late frosts!.....We have a saying over here....Tatties in for Paddy's day(17th March) out for Willy's day (12th July).................
Sam
 
Looks like a nice job well done.
Soil looks a little too wet for my comfort, though.
The frost will be your enemy.
No potatoes being planted here yet.
Hendrik, from The Netherlands
 
Good looking soil Sam. Great to see the young ones involved. Looks like you took it on the chin to get that tractor for $60.00. :)
 
Thanks for the pictures of your potato planting Sam! I'm gathering material to make a potato planter, but the bell has me puzzled. Do you have any close-up pictures of your bell mechanism?

Paul
 
Looks great, we're still froze up here, but that will change soon, like it always does, just a much slower melt down than usual. I had to look up that date, Willy's day, so its sort of a holiday, related to the Battle of Boyne in 1590 ?

Reason it stood out to me was the name Willy's and the 12th, I tend to celebrate a little on that day too, but for a slightly different reason, the odometer started for me on that day and changes 1 click every year, been trying to work on that so it changes every few years, seems theres a lot more to that than meets the eye LOL!! Now, did you know there will be a full moon this year on "Willy's Day" ? Well at least here it will be, and or going by the "gregorian" calendar. Gregorian, Julian whatever works LOL ! Seems Julian is a few days behind now, he's always late LOL !!
 
My brother (retired farmer) is going with friends today to watch other guy's son plant 120 acres of potatoes on irrigated land. They will harvest the potatoes the first week of June, when they are small, and ship them to South America for seed potatoes. They have contracts to supply the seed potatoes.

Kind of funny that potatoes originated in South America and now the USA is supplying them with seed potatoes. They must want our improved varieties.
 
In Nebr. Granddad also said to plant spuds on Good Friday. Week or two later here in Colo. We would leave them in the ground until it was about ready to freeze. Even left some in will into the winter, and they were still good. Love the gold stubs. 7200' Elevation.
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(quoted from post at 15:02:56 03/18/14) Thanks for the pictures of your potato planting Sam! I'm gathering material to make a potato planter, but the bell has me puzzled. Do you have any close-up pictures of your bell mechanism?

Paul
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I will take some pics for you.......Sam
 
for us, planting potatoes is always an "Easter Day" thing. Seems the weather never cooperates till then. We have 4" fresh snow yesterday. Good grief Charlie Brown.
 
We won't even be ordering seed spuds for another couple weeks! It's a good 6 weeks to 2 months before we can think about planting anything. :shock:
 
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