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Post by richardw on Apr 22, 2012 4:40:46 GMT -5
looking good alright
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Post by DarJones on Apr 22, 2012 8:47:10 GMT -5
I'm curious how you cultivate that rock garden. I would probably use a chisel plow.
DarJones
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Post by raymondo on Apr 22, 2012 16:32:05 GMT -5
I saw a film recently in which a guy called rocks slow-release mineral fertiliser pellets!
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Post by DarJones on Apr 22, 2012 23:25:39 GMT -5
They are also chisel plow breakers and hoe dullers. I hate rocks in my garden.
DarJones
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Post by steev on Apr 23, 2012 0:30:45 GMT -5
I toss any rock I find that's larger than 1" into my tree rows, just to get it out of my veggie beds, seeing no point to hitting it with a tiller ever again. Even without rocks, my soil is remarkably abrasive; I just put new tines on my Mantis; the old set had about half their length worn off.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 23, 2012 1:39:33 GMT -5
I toss any rock I find that's larger than 1" into my tree rows, just to get it out of my veggie beds, seeing no point to hitting it with a tiller ever again. Even without rocks, my soil is remarkably abrasive; I just put new tines on my Mantis; the old set had about half their length worn off. My fields are wider than I can toss a rock, so my strategy is slightly modified... I toss any rock larger than an inch, (which I come across while bending over), towards the nearest edge of the field. Next time I encounter that stone while bending over I give it another toss. I might also kick rocks towards the edge of the field, or flick them that way with a hoe. Any rocks larger than 4" get dropped in a main pathway when discovered and eventually carried all the way out of the garden at my convenience. I drive a truck through the field before the spring tilling to collect any large rocks I can find. The wheel hoe brings more stones to the surface than tilling. |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 23, 2012 18:16:56 GMT -5
As anyone can see, the glaciers left us an abundance of rocks. Our soil type is officially "Chenango Channery Silt Loam" which is pedologist speak for a silt loam filled with gravel and boulders. It makes some things very difficult and some things easier. Renting or hiring a rock picker is in the medium term plan.
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Post by steev on Apr 23, 2012 22:05:12 GMT -5
"Rock picker"? Never occurred to me there was such a thing. Sort of a modified spud harvester, is it?
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Post by blueadzuki on Apr 24, 2012 7:31:51 GMT -5
When I find a rock, I usually toss it to the side to re-enforce the wall (which is now more along the lines of a long cairn) that seperates the garden from the rest of the ground (and so provides something to make sure the gardeners don't get "confused" again and drive their riding mower over it in order to turn.
Actually one modification to that, I toss the rock aside after checking to make sure it is not a rock of some value beyond archetecture. Glacial till tends to bring down everything. I used to have a fist size chunk of absoultey beautiful dragonskin hematitic jasper (litter interlocking polygons of red black and silver that started it's life as a rock I found in the garden (Tecnically I still have it, but around 2000, I Y2K panicked and put it in a tin with some other semi-precios stones, buried it in the backyard, and now can't remember where! Someday, I've gotta go out there with a metal detector.)
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