They are going to be awesome ;) I have quite a few packets of mixed flowers I need to get into the garden along the drive way. Its not as large and area maybe about 100' by 6' wide. I get a large cube of peat and mix the seeds in it, spread that over the area. works very well. I make my own manure compost with horse, chicken, rabbit and goat litter ;) I need to get that on the soil first, we don't have a tractor so its slow going, doesn't help that we are having a heat wave right now :P
Thanks Lori and that’s awesome! Hopefully we will be adding goat manure to our compost mix soon.😉 It always seems to be too wet for us to use the tractor most of the time so I feel you on the slow going.😂 Best of luck to your flowers and garden this year and thank you for watching!
Using the box blade rippers like that is close to what a chisel plow would have done for you. You can buy large bags (5 to 50 lbs) of black oil sunflower seeds cheaply in the bird seed aisle of your local stores too.
Wasn’t sure if the box blade was comparable to a plow or not as we are new to farming, but seemed like it would work to us. Luckily it did. Good to hear verification from someone else that it’s similar.😅 And I had heard about that with the bird seed, but couldn’t verify if they would germinate or not. Have you had success with it before? If so that would be awesome. We ended up planting another 4000 black oil sunflowers on that 2nd day.
@@easyworkacres I've never tried to plant birdseed sunflowers deliberately, but a few always sprout up in the spring around the feeder on their own. I cannot imagine the birdseed seeds are treated in any way to make them not germinate, and I don't believe they would be grown from hybrids that cannot produce "living" seeds. But I really don't know. If you can find a true moldboard plow it will do a much better job of turning the soil, and thus killing the grass and weeds, than just chisel plowing. Generally you must disc plowed ground to cut the large lumps of soil back into smaller bits suitable for planting. Used moldboard plows and disc harrows are not too difficult to find and should be relatively affordable. I went that route for my little pasture/garden last year and it worked out OK. Using a tractor driven tiller will chop the soil much more finely and make bedding seeds even easier, and they are also not too difficult to find on the used market.
Gotcha. May have to get some bird seed just to run a test bed on and see what happens. Could turn out being a much more affordable way of doing it. And if we decide we need to plow much larger areas in the future we may look at different implements for that. But any area we plow will likely only be a one time thing just to break ground. We are trying to avoid plowing or filling as much as possible excavation from our house construction on top of the previous row cropping really took a toll on our soil. Doing everything we can to let the soil rest and rebuild. Thank you for your time watching and commenting we appreciate the advice and suggestions, every little bit helps!
Hope you get a good showing of sunflowers. It will be beautiful...
Thanks Lori, hoping for the best! 🤞
Thanks for watching!
They are going to be awesome ;) I have quite a few packets of mixed flowers I need to get into the garden along the drive way. Its not as large and area maybe about 100' by 6' wide. I get a large cube of peat and mix the seeds in it, spread that over the area. works very well. I make my own manure compost with horse, chicken, rabbit and goat litter ;) I need to get that on the soil first, we don't have a tractor so its slow going, doesn't help that we are having a heat wave right now :P
Thanks Lori and that’s awesome! Hopefully we will be adding goat manure to our compost mix soon.😉
It always seems to be too wet for us to use the tractor most of the time so I feel you on the slow going.😂
Best of luck to your flowers and garden this year and thank you for watching!
Using the box blade rippers like that is close to what a chisel plow would have done for you. You can buy large bags (5 to 50 lbs) of black oil sunflower seeds cheaply in the bird seed aisle of your local stores too.
Wasn’t sure if the box blade was comparable to a plow or not as we are new to farming, but seemed like it would work to us. Luckily it did. Good to hear verification from someone else that it’s similar.😅
And I had heard about that with the bird seed, but couldn’t verify if they would germinate or not. Have you had success with it before? If so that would be awesome. We ended up planting another 4000 black oil sunflowers on that 2nd day.
@@easyworkacres I've never tried to plant birdseed sunflowers deliberately, but a few always sprout up in the spring around the feeder on their own. I cannot imagine the birdseed seeds are treated in any way to make them not germinate, and I don't believe they would be grown from hybrids that cannot produce "living" seeds. But I really don't know.
If you can find a true moldboard plow it will do a much better job of turning the soil, and thus killing the grass and weeds, than just chisel plowing. Generally you must disc plowed ground to cut the large lumps of soil back into smaller bits suitable for planting. Used moldboard plows and disc harrows are not too difficult to find and should be relatively affordable. I went that route for my little pasture/garden last year and it worked out OK. Using a tractor driven tiller will chop the soil much more finely and make bedding seeds even easier, and they are also not too difficult to find on the used market.
Gotcha. May have to get some bird seed just to run a test bed on and see what happens. Could turn out being a much more affordable way of doing it.
And if we decide we need to plow much larger areas in the future we may look at different implements for that. But any area we plow will likely only be a one time thing just to break ground. We are trying to avoid plowing or filling as much as possible excavation from our house construction on top of the previous row cropping really took a toll on our soil. Doing everything we can to let the soil rest and rebuild.
Thank you for your time watching and commenting we appreciate the advice and suggestions, every little bit helps!