What a difference a few days make! On Monday, our field was basically a big dirt pile. Now, it is mostly the precise raised breads you can see in the picture above. The benefit of raised beds (and the reason we chose to work with them) is that the soil warms sooner and dries faster, enabling earlier planting in the spring and helping keep the drainage as good as possible in our somewhat clay soil. After the initial plowing, this was the next big jobs for our BCS walk-behind tractor. Using the rotary plow attachment, Mike and the BCS were able to accomplish in just three days what would have...
Raising beds
