After mowing the ‘park’ next door, I decided to mark off a section of the park and do some soil preparation work on it so it might be used to plant a LOT of food as a contingency … should the sh*t ever actually hit the fan.
Here’s what it looked like from the air after the first step — ripping the soil down about 2 feet deep with the Mahindra and subsoiler/ripper implement.
The next pic show what it looked like after step 2, rotary plow.
Here’s another, lower altitude shot of the plow work.
And finally, here’s what it looked like after step 3 (tiller) and 4 (drag harrow/rake)
The plot is 100′ x 88′ (so 8,800 sq.ft.). I’ll probably seed it with some sort of pasture grasses mix. Maybe till it in once a year to keep the soil “garden ready.”
The soil condition was actually pretty good. Some red clay, but a bit more loamy than, say, my #$%^ barn pasture. 😉
Both of my hands are severely bruised from arm wrestling the rotary plow and tiller behind the BCS, and I was wearing thick buffalo leather gloves!
Can barely move, even after a dip in the jacuzzi. Heading to bed early. Beat.