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Equipment for large-scale agriculture is too big or too expensive, and many home gardening tools don’t work efficiently on larger jobs or break easily. Tiny farming on plots up to two or three acres requires its own special gear…

Wire work

19 Dec 202126 Feb 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Fence wire as row cover support

Electric fence wire work, snipping 6-foot pieces of 9-gauge wire for hoops to hold up floating row cover in the greenhouse. Hopefully this wire is stiff enough to do the job, supporting up to three layers of row cover, heavy … Read the rest

Categories Building & Fixing, Farm lab (research!), Greenhouse, Tools Tags hoophouse, row cover, Winter, winter growing 2 Comments

Spring tilling

17 Mar 201617 May 2015 by Mike (tfb)
Tilling squash patch

“You see a section being tilled, I see PUMPKINS. Actually, mainly spaghetti squash. And some zucchini.” There’s nothing that says, “Things will be just perfect this time around: well-weeded, vigorously green, prolifically fruitful,” better than a freshly tilled patch!… Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools Tags bed preparation, future, rototiller, Spring Leave a comment

Working around steel

6 Apr 201614 May 2015 by Mike (tfb)
Bed preparation and hoophouse steel

Exactly where it was delivered last fall, the steel for the new hoophouse is kinda in the way, so we’re working around it (it doesn’t look like much in the pic, but it will expand into 30’x108’x16’H of plastic-covered year-round … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Greenhouse, People, Tools Tags bed preparation, flea beetle, greens, Lisa, row cover, Spring Leave a comment

Picking rocks

13 Apr 201612 May 2015 by Mike (tfb)
Rocks in front end loader bucket

We have rocks, it’s not a big deal when you get used to them, although I suppose I’d really notice the difference if suddenly all the rocks vanished. As it is, little ones like these are usually ignored, but in … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools Tags rocks, tractor 1 Comment

Water from the barrel

13 Apr 20165 May 2015 by Mike (tfb)
Taking water from a rain barrel

Rainwater upgrade: We only turned over this rain barrel yesterday, set bottom up for winter to keep empty in order to avoid frozen water expansion cracking the plastic, and it rained overnight. A little rain, a fair-sized collection area (roof … Read the rest

Categories Seed starting, Tools Tags rain, rain barrel, watering Leave a comment
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