Some Gardening and field spraying

rusty6 · Jul 21, 2020

Gardens are doing great here and those new potatoes are excellent. I shot a few minutes of garden video before heading out to finish spraying. Not my typical
sunny day in Sask. but it was time for an update anyway.

July Garden

Bruce from Can. · Jul 21, 2020

Very interesting, some of the farm work you do is so very different from ours here in Ontario. And your garden looks fantastic!! It has been just a waste of time trying to have a garden the past few years for us, either so wet seeds rot , or like this year too dry to even grow a decent crop of weeds. I can almost taste those new potatoes

55 50 Ron · Jul 21, 2020

Those potatoes look nice. Is that two different varieties of red? What crop are you spraying there? Kind of hard to tell on the video - or maybe it's my eyes !

rusty6 · Jul 21, 2020

(quoted from post at 09:05:37 07/21/20) Those potatoes look nice. Is that two different varieties of red? What crop are you spraying there? Kind of hard to tell on the video - or maybe it's my eyes !

Yes, two different varieties of potatoes there Ron. I think one was Caribe and not sure of the other. They are seed saved from last year's crop as I always do.
That was no crop I was spraying but chem fallow. Quite a growth of volunteer wheat from the results of last September's hail storm that shelled out a lot of it.

55 50 Ron · Jul 21, 2020

Ah ha. That explains the spraying. I had forgotten about the chemical fallow. My days on the farm as a young fellow are remembered as summerfallow with essentially black fields from the tillage implements. I need a different mindset to understand chemical fallow.

rusty6 · Jul 21, 2020

(quoted from post at 14:55:23 07/21/20) Ah ha. That explains the spraying. I had forgotten about the chemical fallow. My days on the farm as a young fellow are remembered as summerfallow with essentially black fields from the tillage implements. I need a different mindset to understand chemical fallow.

Thats the kind of summerfallow I grew up with too Ron. In fact I still do some. LIkely the next operation on this will be tillage. I haven't figured out which is the most cost effective. With cultivator shovels around the $15 point and diesel in the 4 to 5 dollar a gallon range it makes chemicals look attractive. I can spray a lot more acres in a day than I can cultivate and get 100% kill.

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