Discing The Soil

Last summer my neighbor picked up an old disc from a friend of his who runs a junk yard. After using it on his garden he was kind enough to let me borrow it. That is Emily and Julia mugging with it above. The disc made short work of our vegetable garden up by the barn. All we need to do there is a final till of the soil and we will be ready to plant. The corn field however is a little more problematic since it had a thick covering of prairie grass. The plow did a fine job of turning over the grass but the disc is not chopping up the clumps of sod as much as I would like. I am contemplating borrowing a spike harrow to deal with the sod clumps, but I need to get the potatoes in the ground ASAP.