Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

Both tractor have solar heating for when the cold winds blow . And air conditioning with the doors off .

Garden soil looks good Dave. I like your team of helper chicken!

Garden looks amazing David. Harry

Still to early for that yet here. Around the first of May I should be able to get my future son in law till my gardens. He has a compact NewHolland T1520 tractor. I think is the model number, any way I’m hoping he will do my gardens. Has a 5’ tiller on it. Tractor is 4x4 and 35 hp.

Noel

Garden looks great Dave, the pic helped warm me up a little this afternoon. Everything was white here today, 34 for a high.

Eugen wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:48 pm Garden soil looks good Dave. I like your team of helper chicken!

They follow the tractor and further turn the soil removing seeds and bugs .

Timj wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:49 pm Garden looks great Dave, the pic helped warm me up a little this afternoon. Everything was white here today, 34 for a high.

Wasn't much warmer here . But in the cab with the sun shining it was quite pleasant.

propane1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:43 pm Still to early for that yet here. Around the first of May I should be able to get my future son in law till my gardens. He has a compact NewHolland T1520 tractor. I think is the model number, any way I’m hoping he will do my gardens. Has a 5’ tiller on it. Tractor is 4x4 and 35 hp.

Noel

It is always nice to get help . We are zone 5b here , but because of the natural and man made berms around with the bush out back it creates a micro climate that pushes it up to almost a 6 .
We are hoping to get some early frost hearty crops in this weekend . Going to have to fence off what we plant , or the little dinosaurs will dig it all up .

Thanks guys . The top soil is coming along good . It is a long ways from the baron sand that would barely support some grass when we first started .

Jacob tilling the garden today after school . Hopefully tomorrow we can get him to pound in the tee bar post for the temp fence to keep the birds out of the garden as we hill and plant . He is going to be getting a lot of seat time this spring while I am sidelined . Anyone know where we can get little white hard hats for all the supervisors?

Dave! Jake's doing stuff now he can build a life on later.

That’s awesome Mr. Dave! Looks like he’s doing a great job!

As for the extra small helmets for the supervisors, apparently you only need to look as far as the local Walmart!

JSinMO wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 10:39 pm That’s awesome Mr. Dave! Looks like he’s doing a great job!

As for the extra small helmets for the supervisors, apparently you only need to look as far as the local Walmart!IMG_3571.png

That is hilarious @JSinMO ! I can picture an army of chicken in Mr Dave's yard all with helmets. Poor rooster!

Well , got to do the rows with the hiller when he got home from school . Much to his shigrin I might add . Dealling with a grumpy teenager is like , well . But some of it got done , kinda sorta . Relying on others is hard enogh for me , but when it is a teen The and I will plant the first of the early crops tomorrow .

I don't know where I heard it, apparently teenagers are difficult.

Look at the bright side Dave, he did do it.

Just in Case you need to see dirt turned .

Lookin' good Dave, and nice to see your guard chickens are on duty too...

Last row , My new high tech alignment sights worked really well . Nice straight even spacing . A little tape and a few wood stakes pushed into ground . Line up your sights and just knock them over at the end of the rows.

DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:13 am 20240426_125548.jpg
Last row , My new high tech alignment sights worked really well . Nice straight even spacing . A little tape and a few wood stakes pushed into ground . Line up your sights and just knock them over at the end of the rows.

David the garden looks terrific. Necessity is the Mother of invention. Harry

playing old school farmer . it is in for repairs so might as well give it a workout . setup for row weeding , but did the job . Knocked down the hills and leveled it out ready to disk and add the old bedding from the chickens and duck runs .

Dave,

Interesting, your soil must drain well. Here in Northern Illinois I've only seen a couple of farmers out in the field and only one planting corn. Saw a couple posts from sweet corn farmers that had planted, but they always push the envelope as the first ones with corn for sale wins.

Looking for over an inch of rain Monday afternoon- Monday night, so that will slow things up again.

No garden planting yet for me.

Bob

Yeah Bob @myerslawnandgarden we drain really well . We are on a Glacial Morane . All sand and gravel where we are , but not far from us is clay plains . We have added tons of organics to the garden to hold moister and food for the plants . Made like Nascar and just kept turning left in circles untill it was done .