Some good-looking, rich black loamy soil you’ve got there. But the climate looks sort of dry based on the treeline. Do you have to irrigate? If that’s a plowed field in the distance, you’ve done a lot of soil amendment to get that black loam. Where is this, general vicinity, if you don’t mind my asking?
NW Iowa.
The fields in the background just look like that because of the lighting. This is all the best black soil in the world here.
And we get plenty of rain, generally. No irrigation is necessary.
This plot is a double vacant lot that has been in sod for years. Just plowed, disced and harrowed it this spring. No soil amendments required.
By the way, I’m sure that field back there is planted to soybeans. They leave the stubble. It’s low, or no, till.
The thing about this lot is that it wasn’t just in grass. It had a whole lot of ground ivy, or what we call “creeping charlie.” The stuff is really hard to kill. We’ve already had to run through it once with the tiller, and I’m in the middle of the last hilling.
As fast as it’s growing though, it’s going to canopy very shortly. That will keep the last of the weeds at bay.