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These photos go in that category of “snapped just because they were there and I had a camera in my hand.”
Another category might be “it can’t be lemons or flowers.” Or sheep, or Hawaiian green sea turtles which aren't really green.
Yesterday between rain storms, someone brought the disk harrow, Mark had bought, and this Minneapolis Moline Rake/Tedder. It never looked like it had seen a grease gun in years, the balls in all of the grease zerks were rusted in place but we were able to break them open, there must be 30 or more of them on the thing. We put a couple springs in place of some bailing wire on one lever so we could adjust it. Scraped off some hardened grease around the gears, so we could adjust the gears into forward or reverse, as we wanted it to go. We then started to pull it around to see how it would work, making adjustments as we needed to. It will be handy to stir the hay next year to help it dry better. This year I tried raking the hay into small windrows after 1 day to try and help it to dry but even in a small windrow it is still too thick to dry very well.
Since John got a hat, Erin decided she wanted a scarf. Well, I tried to do it as a double sided knit on the Bond (left sample - aka 1x1 Rib), but didn't like how it was turning out, so started over on the double sided rake. Erin is liking how it is turning out.
It's really not enough to grab the first or cheapest tool you see. I went through a few small hand spades until I decided to splurge for the all metal one seen here, and it has taken abuse that would have destroyed lesser tools. The hoe, likewise, was purchased after a couple of frustrating years spent with one with a wooden handle out of which the implement was constantly falling until the handle failed and broke (the hand spade is propped up on what's left of it). The model I selected as its replacement has a metal handle with the working end attached via rivets. The shovel was picked for the same reason. I hardly ever use a garden rake, and then only for light duty, so hopefully its wooden handle will not be a liability. And besides, it was only four dollars, and aren't rules made for breaking anyway?
Yesterday between rain storms, someone brought the disk harrow, Mark had bought, and this Minneapolis Moline Rake/Tedder. It never looked like it had seen a grease gun in years, the balls in all of the grease zerks were rusted in place but we were able to break them open, there must be 30 or more of them on the thing. We put a couple springs in place of some bailing wire on one lever so we could adjust it. Scraped off some hardened grease around the gears, so we could adjust the gears into forward or reverse, as we wanted it to go. We then started to pull it around to see how it would work, making adjustments as we needed to. It will be handy to stir the hay next year to help it dry better. This year I tried raking the hay into small windrows after 1 day to try and help it to dry but even in a small windrow it is still too thick to dry very well.
I was trying to get a nice shot of these guys raking the beach. How very resort. I thought this was the shot, but...
Hugelkultur raised beds filled w/ rotten wood. This makes for raised beds loaded w/ organic material, nutrients, air pockets for the roots of what you plant, etc. As the years pass, the deep soil of your bed becomes incredibly rich & loaded w/ soil life. As the wood shrinks, it makes more tiny air pockets - so your hugelkultur becomes sort of self tilling. The first few years, the composting process will slightly warm your soil giving you a slightly longer growing season. The woody matter helps to keep nutrient excess from passing into the ground water - & then refeeding that to your garden plants later. Plus, by holding SO much water, hugelkultur could be part of a system for growing crops in the desert w/ no irrigation.
www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Hugelkultur/
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Above the first steep section of Lord's Rake on Scafell. The massive jammed boulder that I think first appeared in around 2002 and was expected to fall soon (making the Rake too dangerous to climb) still remains!
Wildflower hay meadows at Hard Rake near Sheldon.
Olympus OM2n 28mm f3.5 lens Agfaphoto Precisa CT100 film.
The cloves are just deep enough that I can rake lightly over the surface of the bed without dislodging them. Because the soil is so fluffy, rain will gradually compress it around the cloves and snuggle them into the correct depth.
gradual move of rake of YC wagons - as area has yet to be excavated to final formation level. Track is a bit "grassy" (and temporary) here at the moment!
From the village of Rake the Serpent Trail heads through the woodland known as Rake Hanger. This very beautiful stretch of beech and pine woodland is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest
This is a hay rake used to collect cut hay or straw into windrows for later collection (e.g. by a baler or a loader wagon). It is also called a wheel rake.