A young guy across the way mowed the field one time for me. I let him shoot a deer or two on the place over the years. A few years past the NEW BRIDGE PROJECT being complete, my field has dried out considerably. What once was a mostly wet, marshy mess, is now a few springs popped to the surface, and a few places holding water back. The soil is mostly a sandy sort of loam, with lots of organic stuff, and lots of clay… and lots of WEEDS. The soil is a mat of weed tubers and roots.
Enter the Treadlite Broadfork, the perfect tool for this sandy, clay loam. Then remove the tubers and roots, and you have a nice, healthy soil to start our little market garden.
Let the tool do the work, work it down, push forward to loosen, then back to bring roots to the top. You end up with loose soil and roots…
It works really faster than a tiller. The hard part is the sifting through after using the broadfork, getting those roots out. You end up with a huge pile of organic matter, to compost and add back. This is the pile from the little garden so far…
And here is the little main garden so far. Every day I have gone done and worked for 4 hours on work days, and more on days off. So things are slowly getting there. Below is my little spot so far. Jerusalem Artichokes are in the raised bed, and asparagus on the left. Stay tuned for more…
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