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Posted on October 8, 2013 @ 12:11:00 PM by Paul Meagher
On friday, Oct 4th I drove down to our farm and returned late monday. My wife and I have had the farm for around 4 years. I'm experimenting with trying to grow various plants. I've had some success so far with growing grape vines (after a couple of years of failure) and this weekend I wanted to get the soil ready for planting around 1000 more vines into next spring. For me, this meant plowing new strip tills that I'll be planting into (see photos below). The freeze-thaw action on the plowed soil (4 furrows wide) over the winter will cause the soil to break apart more so that when I run my 3.5 foot wide rototiller over the tills twice it will make a nice bed to plant my rooted vines into. The strip tills also have a drainage function as the fields get waterlogged in spring and this helps dry the soil up better. Vines don't need as much water as apple trees. I also went down to the farm this weekend to take in the colors of the season. The leaves are changing now and the various hardwood tree species create a pastel landscape this time of year.
 Colors around the farm  More colors in the distrance  Strip till for next year's vines  2 yr old vines at end of growing season  2 yr old vines up close  Ripe red wine grapes  Ripe white wine Grapes  Corn looks ok  Harvested vegetables  Nine new strip tills  Farmstead from back field
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