With temperatures nearing 80, I succumbed to the temptation to start early fieldwork. So I hooked up the disk, and cut up some sod for further work later. (Local septic hauler will rent it for disposal for the summer - wants to start soon.) As a kid, I remember lots of springs where my dad would start work in early April, wearing heavy winter clothes. I was wearing a long sleeve shirt, and not even a jacket. THIS IS IN MID-MICHIGAN and MID-MARCH!. The spring peepers were so loud I could hear them over the tractor. Swamps are very low. Usually, there are ponds in the fields, and swamps overflowing. Did make a pass or two in the field septic man used last year, and it is a little wet yet, but the effluent seems to give the soil characteristics of clay for a season or so. Will be a couple weeks before I can comfortably plow it.... WIfe came down and took some pictures, just to proove it. (I"d post them, but everyone"s seen a tractor pulling a disk.)
I"m scared for our fruit crops here in Michigan, as trees are budding out, and we"re sure to get a nasty frost yet - killing the fruit buds.
Hope not, fruit is a big industry here in west Michigan, and the fruit farmers sure don"t need a kick in the knees now.
I"m scared for our fruit crops here in Michigan, as trees are budding out, and we"re sure to get a nasty frost yet - killing the fruit buds.
Hope not, fruit is a big industry here in west Michigan, and the fruit farmers sure don"t need a kick in the knees now.