The farmer & his family across from our cabin along with my brother and I have two experiments going this spring. Growing hard spring wheat and turkeys.
Wheat
The wheat experiment culminated in us buying 150#'s of Glenn Hard red spring wheat. I wrote about the process of deciding on this strain of wheat in the "What have you don today to prep" section; however in short this wheat is supposed to do well in the northern Latitudes.
The price was .50 cents a pound for the seed and came in three burlap bags.
My partner in crime cleared a 1 acre section of field of trees and then using a three bottom plow, plowed the 1 acre using a crisscross pattern. He then disked the plowed area and the family spent half a day picking up rocks.
Once the field was disked and de-rocked (Yeah right, that will never be) the seed was broadcasted by hand. Since we didn't have seeder (Looks like a disker but instead of disks it has cogs that pushes seeds into the earth) we attached a 4'x8' piece of plywood to the back of the disker with chain and ran over the field a couple of times. Pictures will follow...
Turkeys[/i]
Two thanksgiving's ago, I bought a Bourbon Red Turkey from the butcher. The price was $5- a pound BUT the turkey was the best eating turkey we have ever had. Well since then I have been threatening to buy some Bourbon red poults and raise them for thanksgiving.
Well the farmer's wife across from the cabin bought some to shut me up. She also bought some Royal Palms. All told nine poults. They are sharing the baby chic house with ducks and chic's warmed by a heat lamp. I got a text message this morning from them letting me know that they had frost last night. When will this winter end! In the text they told me that their son named the turkeys: Mash potatoes, creamed onions, gravy, pumpkin pie, giblets, stuffing, minced meat pie, green beans and lurch [img]http://www.arrse.co.uk/at
Pictures and follow-up will come for both experiments as time passes.
