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<blockquote data-quote="Hesstondriver" data-source="post: 6737000" data-attributes="member: 5823"><p>i do love it when people say farming black land (Fen / Peat etc) is easy !</p><p></p><p>1) it can blow, dykes and roads full of soil.</p><p>2) if it blows it can take young seedlings with it</p><p>3) it can be so bl@@dy springy it is impossible to consolidate so pushes and bulldozes with any form of cultivator</p><p>4) when its wet its very wet , when its dry its very dry and also hard to make wet again with irrigation</p><p>5) you get weird iron deposits blocking field drains</p><p>6) on some you can peel up virgin peat with the plough , causing nightmares with veg planters ( fen boys call it Bear's muck)</p><p>7) any straw crop tends to fall over, then you basically push it to one end of the field with the combine because the roots dont hold in to the ground !</p><p>8) Bog oaks that appear from nowhere, one year is fine - next year a box of plough shear bolts , followed by the need for a digger</p><p>9) pockets of blue clay that just appear in the middle of a field</p><p>10) in a good wheat growing year the black will yield average, in a bad year it will do the same.</p><p>11) you can't have light coloured carpets in your house, it gets every where</p><p></p><p></p><p>[USER=1880]@Flat 10[/USER] , [USER=23502]@Adeptandy[/USER] how many of these can you tick off ??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hesstondriver, post: 6737000, member: 5823"] i do love it when people say farming black land (Fen / Peat etc) is easy ! 1) it can blow, dykes and roads full of soil. 2) if it blows it can take young seedlings with it 3) it can be so bl@@dy springy it is impossible to consolidate so pushes and bulldozes with any form of cultivator 4) when its wet its very wet , when its dry its very dry and also hard to make wet again with irrigation 5) you get weird iron deposits blocking field drains 6) on some you can peel up virgin peat with the plough , causing nightmares with veg planters ( fen boys call it Bear's muck) 7) any straw crop tends to fall over, then you basically push it to one end of the field with the combine because the roots dont hold in to the ground ! 8) Bog oaks that appear from nowhere, one year is fine - next year a box of plough shear bolts , followed by the need for a digger 9) pockets of blue clay that just appear in the middle of a field 10) in a good wheat growing year the black will yield average, in a bad year it will do the same. 11) you can't have light coloured carpets in your house, it gets every where [USER=1880]@Flat 10[/USER] , [USER=23502]@Adeptandy[/USER] how many of these can you tick off ?? [/QUOTE]
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