Monday, April 16, 2007

fertilizing the grass hayfield

We had debated whether to fertilize the grass-hay patch.  We really get enough hay for our needs without fertilizer.  But the stand of grass was looking pretty sparse, and we don't want to lose it just because it lacks nutrients.

I realize this isn't an exciting entry.  But it's how we spent our morning!
 




7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anything pertaining to farming interests me. I didn't know they furnished those trailers for you to use about fertilizing. Been a long time since I have done any farming LOL. I can see the white pellets coming out the back of the trailer thingy. Helen

Anonymous said...

We need to do some reseeding here. The floods last fall wiped out a lot of seeds.

Anonymous said...

Now you all just need some rain for that fertilizer.  I too need to put some fertilizer on my grass/yard.  I have this little hand held spreader...quite a difference for sure.  I was just thinking about when I'd do it and here you are with your  fertilizer entry, so I had to put that in.  It's a little warmer here today, but very windy, so I suppose I'd best not do it now.  'On Ya' - ma

Anonymous said...

Loved this entry.  This is similar to the procedure for hauling stone on our dump trucks.  Actually we only weigh in once per week so if we allow dirt to cake up in the dump body and then haul stone...we pay for dirt weight too which is not good.  Personally, I think it was a good decision to do the fertilization.  Better safe than sorry!

Anonymous said...

Not boring to me.  I never even thought about how hay got fertilized and now I've learned something new.  And, yes - I could see the little white thingies coming out on the last pic.

XXOO

J

Anonymous said...

Hey, its all tied in together...thats part of the country life right?  I like hearing and seeing all about whatever y'all are doing. :)

Anonymous said...

sounds like alot of uncomplicated work to me....but knowing what we do to have a nice green lawn...can understand going thru this for feed for those sweetie animals.....all in the way you look at it I guess....have fun is all I can add...hugs from KY...Ora