18 April 2008
P-P-P-Plowing
Posted by Brian under: Farmin'; The Red House .
Yesterday was my first experience driving farm equipment down the road. When your sitting on the tractor, it seems like it’s going fast, until you look at the makeshift speedometer, and it says somewhere between 13 and 14 miles per hour. Dad helped me plow up the spot for the garden, and it required going down to borrow some equipment from my Uncle John. Of course it’s only maybe a quarter of a mile down the road, and I wouldn’t really consider it a heavy traffic road, but non the less, I had the country song “International Harvester” playing in my head. The tractor made quick work of the 30′x60′ plot that I had previously tilled up for the garden. We had to resist the temptation to expand the size of the garden to 90′x180′ or 180′x300′ since it was so easy to ride around on the tractor and till up the land. Now we just need to rake out any additional grass that is still in the area, and get to planting the seeds.