I would say that the fall is the time of the year that most people get out the plow (the ground is usually much more dry), but since there were piggies living in the spot that I wanted to plow I had to wait until the spring (and a dry week). As you can see from the picture above, the stars aligned last Friday and I was able to get the two-bottom plow in the ground and turn over the dirt in the old pig pen.
Not only did I plow up our garden spot, but I also went and hit the neighbors garden spot with the plow. I was amazed at the difference in the ground between our two spots. Ours had some decent black dirt (and composting manure), while the neighbors was sod being turned over for the first time and it was almost completely clay. And, the two spots weren’t much more than a quarter of a mile apart. Although, by the bricks we found after turning of the dirt at the neighbors I wouldn’t be surprised if that spot had once had an old shed or if it was even the garbage pile at one time.
The next step is to hit it with a disc and then come back with the garden tiller if it still needs to be broken up a bit. In the future we won’t have to do as much work, but since this is a first year garden and because it was hard-packed by the pigs it needs a little more tillage to break it up. After all that is done we get ready to plant sweet corn … I can’t wait!
