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Garden State Pumpkins

Another urban farmer question. Got my soil tests back and they used some terminology unfamiliar to me. They said to disk in the fertilizer. I'm sure it simple..I got shovels, rakes, hoes, no DISKS. Help

4/26/2002 6:15:38 AM

Columbus Ohio

Discing is what farmers do to their fields after they plow it. The impliment looks like a bunch of disc on their sides hence the name. You could either till it in or even rake it in.

4/26/2002 8:07:17 AM

Indiana

John is right on, disking is one step further than plowing. When a field is plowed, it is rough, and you couldnt drive over it with anything but a tractor. The farmer goes over it with his tractor, and pulls the disker. The disker breaks apart the peaks and the valleys of the plowed ground. After groiund is disked, it is level. The reason I a assume your soil scitentist said disk in to mix in the fertilizers, as John said.
Tom Beachy

4/26/2002 9:17:05 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

knew it was simple...Thanks guys I'm the disk....other terminology used was "banding in" the fertilizer and side dressed..banding in sounds like making a layer of fertilizer and side dress sounds like just raking it in around....I'm getting there Chuck

4/26/2002 10:36:40 AM

Cornwall UK.(50N 5W)300ft.

Chuck,
side band dressing means placing a row of fertiliser paralell alongside a crop row a short distance away from it 4ins maybe(seed comes out of one tube,fertiliser comes out of another tube next to it when drilling)its placed a little way away to avoid burning the roots.Its a field situation thing sprinkling a little fert around a plant in a circle would amount to the same thing.
Mark

4/26/2002 1:05:09 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

NO NO GUYS YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG.. YOU SEE I WAS BRUNG UP ON A FARM AND HAD TO LEARN ALL THESE NEW COMPUTER TERMS AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU "DISK IN" DONT MEAN WHAT IT USED TO.. "DISK IN" IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO WHEN YOU WANT TO LOAD A NEW PROGRAM FROM ONE OF THEM RAINBOW LOOKING MINY RECORDS THAT COME WITH YOUR COMPUTER..

4/26/2002 8:00:27 PM

Sloughhouse, CA

All I know is that it is a lot easier to disc the garden with the tractor than try to double dig with a shovel when you have hard pan. That is why I asked for a used disc for my birthday a couple of years ago. Suzy

4/27/2002 1:51:14 AM

Myrtle Creek, Oregon

I tryed that disc thing and my little troybuilt just could'nt pull it, then I tryed to pull it by hand and dangneer had a heart uh tac, then I tryed tuh pull it with my Blazer but the turning raidius was to wide and I kept running over the Lillac's, my wife came out and took my beer and keys away and told me tuh just till the damn patch, yuh know she's perty smart it worked!!! H-K-J <;-)

4/28/2002 10:29:23 AM

Eureka, Ca

H-K-J, Great story, got a good chuckle out of that one

5/8/2002 10:39:52 PM