Meatball Farming

It is hot, hot, hot today.  The heat from the four-wheeler was hot.  Even the wind is hot.  Just got back from fetching the SD cards from the three trail cameras only to find out that two of them were entirely blank.  Two weeks outdoors and they were devoid of pictures.  Did I mistakenly reinsert the old card instead of a new card?  Or did I fail to turn the camera on?  Or was there a malfunction with the device?  What the heck.

I'll check them again at the end of the week.

Last weekend during Schuetzenfest the boys completed the planting of five wildlife food plots.  I prepared them with a couple of applications of glyphosate (RoundUp) and they disced and rototilled, broadcast seed and fertilizer and dragged the plots with old tractor tire chains for a somewhat decent seed to soil contact.

This is what I call Meatball Farming.  And in a good year we get pretty decent results with all manner of stuff growing to tide the critters over the winter and into the following spring.  Where we seed clover we can get a crop that persists for years.  All the critters like clover.

Here are some pictures.  In the space of one week we've had fairly decent germination.  Let's hope the rains continue on a regular basis...