Re: Things drying out quick

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 15, 2005 at 16:53:58 from (216.208.58.143):

In Reply to: Things drying out quick posted by Dieselrider on April 15, 2005 at 15:24:34:

Dieselrider: Here in SW Ontario, soil has really dried out in past two weeks. We have been rid of most of our snow for 3 weeks now. Got you beat by a week on that one Jeff.

I'm planting my no till garden, and in this clay soil it's really only the top 1.5" dried out. I've been cutting a drill and putting seeds right down on the wet layer. Of course I had the garden hilled last fall, so if I have excess dry soil for small seed I just hoe it into the row. Then I use a starter solution, seal it up again. Hopfully the seeds sprout and put down root as fast as moisture drops.

I have another section of my garden, where I'm disking in some compost. I've got 6" of dust in that section. One good thing about that, got 2 or 3 stray cats around, making good use of the dust and not my gardening.

I was talking with a neighbor farmer, ( roughly 2,000 acres of corn, beans and wheat) who does conventional tillage. He said,"the no till guys got it made this year, if it doesn't rain in next week or so, we will have to run cultivator two acres ahead of planter."

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