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Ground Prep for Fall Plantings

October is a busy month!  The weather turns pretty quickly, and a lot needs to happen before the rains make it too wet.  Aside from clearing old crops to make way for cover crop, we are also planting next year’s strawberries, garlic, and over-winter onions.  These three crops will take up 2/3 of an acre on my farm this year.  I put my drop spreader to use spreading lime and rock phosphate, and used my manure spreader for cow and chicken manure.  Now I’ll finish the bed prep for these crops by chisel plowing, rototilling, bed-shaping, then, for the strawberries, laying t-tape and black plastic mulch. ...Then comes the actual planting!