We've been kind of busy this fall with shows and gotten a little behind on our gardening.
We like to plant our high tunnel normally around the 1st of November or the end of October.
But here we are the middle of November and trying to get caught up to plant some greens,
some chard, kale and other things using our Hoss Seeder.
After the spring crops in our high tunnel, we lowered the doors and let it kill off other
things during the summer, and now we're trying to get everything going back for our fall
crops.
We raked out all the dead plant matter that we had left over from the spring, removed
the drip tape.
We're not going to use drip tape this year, we're going to do overhead watering.
What we're adding into the high tunnel today is compost.
Now this compost here is cow manure and shavings that were used in a dairy barn that they clean
out.
And we've had it piled up for a while and it has went through a heat and created some
pretty good compost.
And what we do is we move it out here with the wheelbarrow and we take our manure fork
and just put a thin layer through here.
And this adds a lot of organic matter to our soils and also a lot of nitrogen, potassium
and phosphorous.
The setup we're using today is a Hoss Wheel Hoe with four cultivator teeth.
And the Wheel Hoe works great for small garden areas such as high tunnels and hoop houses.
The Wheel Hoe is great for light cultivation, incorporating a thin layer of compost into
the soil.
I've got a Troy-Bilt tiller that I use sometimes, but in this situation, the Wheel Hoe works
a lot better.
I didn't have to worry about gas in the tiller or if the tires were inflated.
Plus the tiller can get away from you in these small areas and could damage the hoop house
and I didn't want that to happen.
It really didn't take long to do what I needed to do there and the Wheel Hoe was the perfect
fit for that.
I also wanted to keep a firm seed bed.
So using the Wheel Hoe I was able to do that.
A tiller a lot of times fluffs the soil up a little more than what I needed in this situation.
Because I wanted to come behind it using the Hoss Seeder and plant some of our greens and
other things.
The hoop house is 26' x 48'.
That's about 1200 square feet of area in there.
It took us about 10 minutes with the Wheel Hoe to incorporate this compost into the soil.
After we incorporated the compost in, we took a rake and kind of leveled it out a little
bit.
Stay tuned for our next two videos where we will plant with the Beast.
That's our multi-row Hoss Seeder setup.
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