View from the Driver's perspective (and the easiest)
Bobette and Yolanda planting tomatoes
Amelia and Emma owning those plants like a boss!
Shelling popcorn on Sunday with one of our "Turn-of-the-previous-century" contraptions. Here you see an International Harvester Tri-star Pony being cranked by Mark Uthe. Units like this were sold in the early 1900's. This unit was advertised in the January 25th 1913 edition of Farm Implement Magazine
Sweet Potatoes - Round 2. Tractor is a New Holland and the Trasnplanter is made by Mechanical Transplanter from Holland Michigan. The transplanter inserts the potato slips into the ground and gives the plant a shot of water with loquid fertilizer to stimulate root growth. If you look really close, you can see the plants emerge from between the packer wheels at the back of the planter.
Planting Sweet Potatoes at Manhattan Friendship Garden
Taking turns planting potatoes. Bill on the tractor, Marianne on the planter
Potato Planting - Take 3 - Bill's busy hands
Bill Uthe and Carl Bormet planting potatoes.
It's gonna take a while at this rate
A little video showing how we hill up our potatoes.
This is done to increase tuber growth and prevent any potatoes from breaching the surface and getting exposed to sunlight.
A little video showing how we hill up our potatoes.
This is done to increase tuber growth and prevent any potatoes from breaching the surface and getting exposed to sunlight.
