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- Exeter, Devon
Be good to see some pics tomorrow if you have time.
transplanting veg plants into stubble by hand
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Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Sorry I don't know how.
Just standard stuff, ploughed this morning, raised beds created this afternoon & planted in the evening. As said earlier free draining land but spoilt by too much stone. They quarry the stone next door, 26 foot of high qualty sand stone underneath that clay suitable for making clay drainage pipes.
Sprouts today, allsorts tomorrow.
renewablejohn
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- lancs
Could do with some liquorice plants myself. Do they still grow them near you.
renewablejohn
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- lancs
This thread made me look in the nettles and I found a deep bed roller with staggered block imprints we used to use. Might be useful to someone as we no longer use it since selling our blocking machine.
corkman2013
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- co.cork
Could you put up a photo please.
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
It's been wet here as well the last two weeks but we haven't had to resort to hand planting yet what I've done in the past is old spring tines welded onto the hood of a rotavator to make lines to plant into or in desperation used a heavy c tine cultivated to make lines the trouble is you do get smearing the best thing really is to wait unless your seedlings are getting leggy or yellow. For us wet weather is a worry as we can have 400,000 plus seedlings a week to plant so a couple of weeks worth of seedlings in the yard starts you sweating. If you can plant 6000 per day person that's really could going we would only average 3000 and some people wouldn't plant them well.
Devil's advocate
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Sorry was prepared to plant by hand.
Better than expected weather so used the machine a MAS speed planter.
Almost finished my fault did not prepare enougth ground. Not easy few livestock jobs,ploughing & bed tilling before my two mates come into work & then driving the planting tractor.
Next lot due on Tuesday.
Better than expected weather so used the machine a MAS speed planter.
Almost finished my fault did not prepare enougth ground. Not easy few livestock jobs,ploughing & bed tilling before my two mates come into work & then driving the planting tractor.
Next lot due on Tuesday.
Hats off to you DA , you're a grafter .
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Hats off to you DA , you're a grafter .
I did not do it, just considered it.
Blessed with free draining soil & better weather than expected.
Actually looking at the stubble field, suprised how hard it had gone, with the loading of bales last autumn (small ones) winter rain & muck spreading it needed ploughing. Also the straw rows had gone, worms nipped the stubble off at ground level.
Usually put the inputs apart from lime on the ploughing this year all on the stubble, plenty of rain to wash them in.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Well done, at least you had all your options covered. How much veg do you grow? Must get you into posting some pictures if you want to, I’m sure a number of us would like to see what you do.
Bogweevil
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Four. Hundred. Thousand. A. Week. And not an automatic planter. Blimey.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Legal requirements to employ I believe?
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Best we ever did was 100,000 plants in a day.
Spring cabbage through a plug planter, 3 people on the planter, one getting ground ready and me driving the planter. Tractor was IH 684, nowt special.
Back window open and every time I heard the planters talking I went a bit quicker, figured if they had time to talk they could go faster.
I doubt we broke any records but by hell we covered some ground that day! The key was good folk on the back and the nimble 2WD tractor that could turn so much quicker on the headlands than the 4WD the "boss" insisted we used.
Spring cabbage through a plug planter, 3 people on the planter, one getting ground ready and me driving the planter. Tractor was IH 684, nowt special.
Back window open and every time I heard the planters talking I went a bit quicker, figured if they had time to talk they could go faster.
I doubt we broke any records but by hell we covered some ground that day! The key was good folk on the back and the nimble 2WD tractor that could turn so much quicker on the headlands than the 4WD the "boss" insisted we used.
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
No we have six row Ferrari and can do 220,000 in a eight til six day . We changed to machine several years ago because people do a poor job compared to the machine there's no legal requirement to employ labour but we couldn't incentive it and still get a good job done so we bought a machine I'd had a couple of second hand ones previously and struggled so we bought a Ferrari in 2015 an another came after Christmas 2021 so if we really wanted we could do everything in a day.
renewablejohn
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- lancs
I nicked the 3 point lift off it years ago to make a hydraulic pair of harrows.
Produces block holes 11 inch apart
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
20 years ago & may be still do. MAS used to do a bed tiller/former with attactments to the rear roller to mark out for hand planting. Hand planting was more common then for the larger sizes of peat blocks.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Really impressive.
Do you raise your own plants, maybe not even need a glasshouse in your climate.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Used to grow more but
4 acre of potatoes
4 acre culinary swede
8 acre leaf brassica including sprouts, caulie, various types of cabbage, PSB, Broccoli, romanesco & various types of kale
half an acre of beetroot
sell to our own farm shop, three other farmshops , a stall holder couple of pubs & three wholesalers.
We buy a lot more in than we sell at the wholesalers, sell the full range in the farm shop every fruit & veg you can think of. Maybe even some from @Lowland1 via wholesaler,
We are a bit short handed would like to grow a wider range & tighten up on growing better higher yeilding crops
15,000 small bales for smallholders & 200 acre mixed farm
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
No we get them from a plant raiser. They are raised in large plastic covered greenhouses. Doing our own really is too much for us.
renewablejohn
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- lancs
Whilst some knowledgeable people with practical experience on the thread has anyone used this paper pot system. I always transplant parsnip in cardboard tubes and this looks interesting.
