Hi, My name is Dortha Little, I am 75 years old, I live in the USA, Alabama. I really enjoy watching all your videos. You are a hard working couple. I really admire what you do and how you do it. I especially like your videos when you cook. I have watched the one with the carrot cake several time. I really wish you would give the amount of the ingredients. I have been tempted to just guess, but, I know I would guess wrong. Sometime, if, you have time, maybe you could find it in your heart to do so. Keep videoing and good luck and God Bless you both.
@@WayOutWestx2 My bad, yes you did, I just did not expand the text on my computer. Thank you so much, I will make this for Thanksgiving for my family. Keep making videos,, love watching you two and all your animals.
It's really odd to think that we humans cooked without Garlic at some point in history. Thanks for this video, the horse and plow made me think about my PaPa Harper talking about plowing horses, mules , and ponies back in the 30's and 40's and even up into the 70's. Keep the art alive ya'll!
Thank you my fellow garlic farmers. I will get to my garlic planting this weekend in my wee downtown garden. Self-sufficient in garlic for three years now.
Hiya Tim! I know this is an older video, and you have likely already solved the rail-load-transfer problem. But all the same I had a simple idea I thought I’d share. Since you have an elevation change between the barn rails and the monorail in the field, how about a simple pair of angled skids that bridge the gap between the two trollies? Push the fish box onto the skids and let gravity slide the boxes down onto the monorail trolly. It could be made from angle iron, and fairly portable. Just a thought!
You could construct a gin pole crane outside your barn to help the transition between the two rail systems. Make Magazine has what looks like a pretty good guide. A gantry crane would work too, but probably be more expensive.
I wish I had your life. No smog or pollution... no busy traffic or sirens buzzing by at all hours of the day/night..No busy airport to have to deal with and all the dirt and noise it brings with it... No homeless encampments around any bend.. no tent cities to avoid.. no one to get in a car accident with... gee whiz.. who wouldn’t want to live there? So what if the weather is harsh, wet, blustery and bone chilling cold? At least you know your alive! You’ve got dry wood for the fire, wholesome food, the cutest house in the world with wildflowers growing on the roof, and the beST animals bar none!! My my my! 😇
Ah...the ingenuity of man, can't be beat. Wonderful ideas, all of them and super helpful indeed! Thanks so much for the video. Also, very interested in a look as to how it all goes, good luck with keeping the critters at bay...
Tim, you should mount a seat on the spring tooth Harrow so Sandra can sit as she's working, and her wee bit of weight might help the teeth dig in a wee bit further.
Thanks for the video Tim! Great work, great couple. And of course, yes, please, update when taking care and harvesting and stocking and selling your marvelous garlic crop. :)
Oh yes please, I'd love to see the garlic progression! I absolutely LOVE some very garlicky spaghetti and bread (much to my friends' chagrin...). I'm very glad to see Bob out supervising the planting process, he does a great job! Looks like you need to do a collaboration with Chris to make and sell the rail tracks. Perhaps they could be made on your CNC machine? What a great network of friends you have! 💜🍀
Think I would have planted in the drills left by the spring harrow, but the cylindrical mace is more photogenic. Great recycling of Gish boxes, they often wash up on the coast near me & I use them for moving plants about, but alas sans monorail. Thanks for sharing!
Poor Henry, he does all the heavy work and still gets faulted! If you had a piece of hard board with planting holes in you could get the cloves where you wanted them, just marking one edge with a line that you set the hardboard to every time. If you wanted to get real fancy, make a sit on support and attach the hardboard to it. Sit on with a tub of cloves, and with a rope, pulley around a prop at the far end and a simple plasma cut ratchet wrench to pull you the length of the hardboard after each plant, rinse and repeat. Super duper fancy and much easier would be using the monorail in the centre of your garlic ground, making the winching much easier. Extra super duper would be to have some steel pieces at the back of the hardboard, set so that they push soil over the cloves as you go. Me? On a much smaller scale, I prepare the soil, put on landscaping fabric (yes, boo hiss I know) use a hard board template to burn holes into the fabric, quite a bit bigger than the cloves as onion type things don't like the plastic near them and plant and then defend them with wire netting against Bambi who otherwise grows fat eating what I am trying to grow!@@WayOutWestx2
Ah, yes, that could all work too. But just wait - I'm planning to reduce the number of rows from 4 to 3, so it won't need as much weight on it. So next year I should be able to wander up and down pulling the dibber and leaving lots of holes in the right places. You build your system and we'll have a race : - )
Boy, even with that dibber, it looked like it was alot of work! Good job getting it done! Try experimenting with the Ruth Stout method too. It's a no til method where you plant directly into decomposing straw. Great for building up soil.
Amazing video as always. Keep it up! I was sad to see that UA-cam autoplayed me into another channel after this one finished. Didn't even see the video about the dibber!
Great video! - you could try extending the handles on the dibber so that you can pull it facing forward rather than having to struggle along backward. Or perhaps gear it really slowly using a belt or gear drive so that one of the horses can draw it :)
Here in the gold rush zone of California, We have a lot of old mine track still lying about. Was this originally made for a mine? Quite a bit lighter than normal but quite the interesting idea. Nice to see the horse, but I think a few passes with a large roto-tiller would solve much of your issues... Dibbler is great, I would just use a large bolt and turn the head to a cone, perhaps using threaded rod.
I've been trying to get my dad to let me make roasted garlic paste out of our excess he planted last year, I think it'd sell well. I did make spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce out of last year's frozen Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes (2 gallon bags) and a couple dozen fresh yellow beefsteaks we grew this year. The spaghetti sauce turned out so good that my parents said they liked it more than red sauce :D The pizza sauce tasted good but the store bought dough sucked. It didn't crisp up in the middle and was very oily tasting. I'd make my own but I don't have a stand mixer. I've got two gallons of Early Girl red tomatoes in the freezer now as well as about half a quart of frozen tomato paste I made from small tomatoes and the few Romas we got this year.. For some reason the past few years those haven't wanted to produce, I don't know if it's just been too hot for them or what but they've been putting on few and tiny tomatoes. Now that it has cooled off substantially (35F this morning maybe 70F this afternoon) they suddenly have started producing larger tomatoes.. though if it gets any colder and freezes all the tomatoes on the plants will be ruined. I picked 26 red tomatoes (off two plants), maybe 6-8 Romas and 1 large yellow tomato tonight.
Your harrow is already making the lines for you... then you rake that smooth to put in holes with your dibbler. Why not plant the garlic in the trenches from the harrow, then gently rake the hills from the harrow over the garlic? Spacing down the line isn't so important if you are well spaced from line to line and can get at weeds that way. Also, I highly recommend when doing heavy work like dumping sand, roll those bins all the way out to the end and start there... then each trip becomes shorter and easier, rather than longer and harder. (I know, it is the same amount of work in the end, but the worst is done when you are fresher, and mentally it just seems better! :) )
We hope there will be no weeding at all to do, Susan. But for that we need the spacings to be spot on. The harrow tynes are the wrong distance apart for what you suggest. Also, Henry doesn't walk in really straight lines so we'd end up with gaps and overlaps, I think!
Really enjoy all your videos. Just a note: I’m not a soils engineer, but I do know that sometimes sand can have an adverse affect on the texture of the soil. Not a suggestion, just a “what if.”
I just thought imagine Imagine the rails would extend over the length of the field. Next thing I see you laying down the monorail. lol bread minds think alike or however the saying was. Now I think about whether it would be useful to have some kind of winch to pull stuff over the field. Perhaps on a wagon.
Having just discovered your channel I'm loving this new video. Having just planted two rows of garlic at our allotment I don't envy you planting 2400 cloves on a field scale! One thought about the railway/monorail interaction though. Could one rail from the railway be extended beyond the end of the line to give a connection point to the monorail track kit? You could either then tranship from the narrow guage trucks to the monorail on the area beyond the bandsaw or, if clearances allowed through doors, etc, even use one rail of the workshop railway as a bit of permanent monorail.
If you are going to keep using the field it might pay to extend the railway down the middle of the field.You could use the horse to pull the railway cart.
I looked into it and the discs need to be dished. For lifting up the soil. Otherwise it will only slice it and compact it. I think I could cut and harden discs, but dishing them too? I don't think I have the time
Y'all never stop amazing me with the good common scene used in your technology!!! I am very interested in the up date and I feel sure they will come up. Do you still keep bees 🐝? Thanks , Phillip Hall
Well done :) ... can the dibber be attached to the 'harrowing' thingy so that those two procedures can be done in one pass, and all with Henry power rather than Tim&Henry power? Perhaps as part of the weight load on the dibbler could a person be hanging on back there and do the planting too?
I've got very sandy soil, adding sand just looks so wrong to me I can't help but laugh. Wish we could cast a magic spell and blend our soils. We would both be in heaven!
Ha! Good plan. I think I'd rather have ours than yours though - ours is too heavy but full of good stuff, but it's harder to keep nutrients in sandy soil, isn't it?
What a neat system! I loved the video as per usual. An unrelated question- how old are the horses? I know Flora is around 7 or 8, but I can't recall Winnie or Henry's ages. Perhaps between 15 and 20? I'd have to take a peek at their teeth for a real guess!
Ohhhhh I hope they come up. You work so hard and invent some fabulous things. Is there absolutely.no was you could practice permaculture so you could use chickens to cut your work load bless you both. Have you seen the permaculture magazine here in England? Also Justin Rhodes of Permaculture chickens on you tube works fields with his chickens and he lets them do all the hard work and has great ideas like you Tim ti cut the wirk load. I worrry about your backs. Xx
The dibber seems to 'cog' as each row of teeth touch the ground, which makes it harder to pull. Have you considered offsetting the teeth, or even arranging them in a spiral so the load would be more constant?
Yes be so grand to see a sea of garlic Could horse pull the garlic dimple-R ? If those pipe things where a bit longer ? Help or dense soil more a issue ?
We're learning all the time - I think I wouldn't change the dibber spikes, but I'm thinking I might make it so there are only three rows instead of 4. That way I wouldn't need so much weight on it
Advantage would be that you can use the sand as ballast on the dibber instead of the blocks then the sand is pretty close to where you want it for top dressing and the dibber then weighs less to roll back and put in the barn
Hi, My name is Dortha Little, I am 75 years old, I live in the USA, Alabama. I really enjoy watching all your videos. You are a hard working couple. I really admire what you do and how you do it. I especially like your videos when you cook. I have watched the one with the carrot cake several time. I really wish you would give the amount of the ingredients. I have been tempted to just guess, but, I know I would guess wrong. Sometime, if, you have time, maybe you could find it in your heart to do so. Keep videoing and good luck and God Bless you both.
Thanks Dortha - but we did put the recipe in, didn't we? We put it in the description under the video, surely?
@@WayOutWestx2 My bad, yes you did, I just did not expand the text on my computer. Thank you so much, I will make this for Thanksgiving for my family. Keep making videos,, love watching you two and all your animals.
The monorail is what first brought your channel to my attention. Such an amazing invention.
It's really odd to think that we humans cooked without Garlic at some point in history. Thanks for this video, the horse and plow made me think about my PaPa Harper talking about plowing horses, mules , and ponies back in the 30's and 40's and even up into the 70's. Keep the art alive ya'll!
Thank you my fellow garlic farmers. I will get to my garlic planting this weekend in my wee downtown garden. Self-sufficient in garlic for three years now.
Hiya Tim! I know this is an older video, and you have likely already solved the rail-load-transfer problem. But all the same I had a simple idea I thought I’d share. Since you have an elevation change between the barn rails and the monorail in the field, how about a simple pair of angled skids that bridge the gap between the two trollies? Push the fish box onto the skids and let gravity slide the boxes down onto the monorail trolly. It could be made from angle iron, and fairly portable. Just a thought!
Yes, that could work. Thanks
Please keep up the posts, your videos overall quality is amazing!
Aw, thanks!
That looks like it worked out so well! That monorail is genius. Everyone should have a monorail.
Exactly!
You could construct a gin pole crane outside your barn to help the transition between the two rail systems. Make Magazine has what looks like a pretty good guide. A gantry crane would work too, but probably be more expensive.
You two are soo cute working together
I wish I had your life. No smog or pollution... no busy traffic or sirens buzzing by at all hours of the day/night..No busy airport to have to deal with and all the dirt and noise it brings with it... No homeless encampments around any bend.. no tent cities to avoid.. no one to get in a car accident with... gee whiz.. who wouldn’t want to live there? So what if the weather is harsh, wet, blustery and bone chilling cold? At least you know your alive! You’ve got dry wood for the fire, wholesome food, the cutest house in the world with wildflowers growing on the roof, and the beST animals bar none!! My my my! 😇
keep up the great work tim sandra and the team keep bob safe
I love seeing your cart and rails working. Your hole stamper too! Still it's a lot of work.👍
You guys make me smile.
It is an absolute pleasure to get a peek at your lives and your problem solving. Thank you for sharing it with us :)
Thanks for this. Me and my two sons (2 and 6) really enjoyed these last two videos!
You really pamper your garlic! That monorail is the dogs bits. It's simple, effective and flexible. A really good invention.
Was very glad to see the sawmill had no blade as you pulled the railway wagons through!
Good to see the mechanical dipper and railway in action
Enjoyed very much... Good luck with your garlic crop !
Ah...the ingenuity of man, can't be beat. Wonderful ideas, all of them and super helpful indeed! Thanks so much for the video. Also, very interested in a look as to how it all goes, good luck with keeping the critters at bay...
Huge Garlic😃Brilliant idea that Monorail is. 👍
Those are the biggest garlic cloves i have ever seen! Is that elephant garlic? Ahh you answered it at the end! 😀
Love seeing it all working so well! Your videos are a highlight, so yes please, keep us updated on the plot :)
Looking forward to see the harvest in few months. That monorail always comes in handy
That's a really cool aerator type contraption for marking planting holes
Congratulations! It worked! Hope you get a good crop of garlic!🙂
Thanks, Janet!
Tim, you should mount a seat on the spring tooth Harrow so Sandra can sit as she's working, and her wee bit of weight might help the teeth dig in a wee bit further.
You're thinking of bigger horses - ours might struggle with that!
Very much interested Tim. Hi Sandra 👋
You will have a wonderful harvest!!! I just planted my garlic, 120 looking forward to harvest them next June . Blessings, Laura M
Love your monorail.
Even Springfield could afford this.
Your vid is like story telling, peaceful and very much calms the mind and the camera work is very good. I loved it. Keep posting vids.
I love the monorail! I may have to look into one of those. It seems so simple.
Thanks for the video Tim! Great work, great couple. And of course, yes, please, update when taking care and harvesting and stocking and selling your marvelous garlic crop. :)
ok then : - )
You folks are always doing something awesome on your farm!👍👍👍👍
Oh yes please, I'd love to see the garlic progression! I absolutely LOVE some very garlicky spaghetti and bread (much to my friends' chagrin...).
I'm very glad to see Bob out supervising the planting process, he does a great job!
Looks like you need to do a collaboration with Chris to make and sell the rail tracks. Perhaps they could be made on your CNC machine?
What a great network of friends you have! 💜🍀
That's a lot of garlic! Sure seems like a great way to get the job done!
This channel is always so fun and educational to watch. I really appreciate the honest quality of your videos. 🙃🙂😃
Yes pls keep us updated on the elephant garlic. Your videos are amazingly great. I must admit tho... Bob is my favourite!
Thanks, Robert. Ours too : - )
Nice always love to see the railway in use
Super interested! Excited to see the growth!
Would love an update later on 😃👍 Your rail system is so brilliant, I just love it!
i live on a farm and you farm is great.
Thank you guys it was really fun watching this
😍😍😍
Самое лучшее и самое красивое видео на эту тему! Добра Вам и удачи! Продолжайте снимать! Очень интересно!
Those are some huge cloves. I am interested in an update.
Both railways are amazing, please extend them and do more videos about it!
Ok (please send money!)
@@WayOutWestx2 how much is one meter of the monorail and how much is one meter of the shed-rail?
something like €7 per meter for the monorail? and twice that for the double? (materials only)
Wow very impressive. Keep up the good job y’all 👍. God bless
A moldboard blow behind that horse would get the depth you need on that seed bed. Love seeing horse drawn farming.
Definitely interested! Keep us posted!
5:35 nice Outfit for the dog 👌
What an awful lot of work! Well done you guys 💪🏻 I hope you get a bounty harvest from it, I look forward to seeing this crop next year.
miss your posts...always so engaging to watch :)
Think I would have planted in the drills left by the spring harrow, but the cylindrical mace is more photogenic. Great recycling of Gish boxes, they often wash up on the coast near me & I use them for moving plants about, but alas sans monorail. Thanks for sharing!
the problem is that Henry (the horse) cannot walk in a straight line, so the rows would be much more wobbly and would take up more space
Poor Henry, he does all the heavy work and still gets faulted! If you had a piece of hard board with planting holes in you could get the cloves where you wanted them, just marking one edge with a line that you set the hardboard to every time. If you wanted to get real fancy, make a sit on support and attach the hardboard to it. Sit on with a tub of cloves, and with a rope, pulley around a prop at the far end and a simple plasma cut ratchet wrench to pull you the length of the hardboard after each plant, rinse and repeat. Super duper fancy and much easier would be using the monorail in the centre of your garlic ground, making the winching much easier. Extra super duper would be to have some steel pieces at the back of the hardboard, set so that they push soil over the cloves as you go. Me? On a much smaller scale, I prepare the soil, put on landscaping fabric (yes, boo hiss I know) use a hard board template to burn holes into the fabric, quite a bit bigger than the cloves as onion type things don't like the plastic near them and plant and then defend them with wire netting against Bambi who otherwise grows fat eating what I am trying to grow!@@WayOutWestx2
Ah, yes, that could all work too. But just wait - I'm planning to reduce the number of rows from 4 to 3, so it won't need as much weight on it. So next year I should be able to wander up and down pulling the dibber and leaving lots of holes in the right places. You build your system and we'll have a race : - )
Super altogether cigar time love when a plan comes together
I've missed Chris' monorail!
Enjoyed & Thumbs Up
Boy, even with that dibber, it looked like it was alot of work! Good job getting it done! Try experimenting with the Ruth Stout method too. It's a no til method where you plant directly into decomposing straw. Great for building up soil.
Ingenious!
❤️ the railway footage.
Please do an update!
Great video and thank you for sharing all the ideas you have ;-)
Itd be so cute if Gordon could pull the dribble drum.
Great video as alway! So relaxing to listen at night 😌
Amazing video as always. Keep it up! I was sad to see that UA-cam autoplayed me into another channel after this one finished. Didn't even see the video about the dibber!
Irish Ingenuity! Well done
Great video! - you could try extending the handles on the dibber so that you can pull it facing forward rather than having to struggle along backward. Or perhaps gear it really slowly using a belt or gear drive so that one of the horses can draw it :)
Here in the gold rush zone of California, We have a lot of old mine track still lying about. Was this originally made for a mine? Quite a bit lighter than normal but quite the interesting idea. Nice to see the horse, but I think a few passes with a large roto-tiller would solve much of your issues... Dibbler is great, I would just use a large bolt and turn the head to a cone, perhaps using threaded rod.
Awesomeness ❤❤
I've been trying to get my dad to let me make roasted garlic paste out of our excess he planted last year, I think it'd sell well. I did make spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce out of last year's frozen Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes (2 gallon bags) and a couple dozen fresh yellow beefsteaks we grew this year. The spaghetti sauce turned out so good that my parents said they liked it more than red sauce :D The pizza sauce tasted good but the store bought dough sucked. It didn't crisp up in the middle and was very oily tasting. I'd make my own but I don't have a stand mixer. I've got two gallons of Early Girl red tomatoes in the freezer now as well as about half a quart of frozen tomato paste I made from small tomatoes and the few Romas we got this year.. For some reason the past few years those haven't wanted to produce, I don't know if it's just been too hot for them or what but they've been putting on few and tiny tomatoes. Now that it has cooled off substantially (35F this morning maybe 70F this afternoon) they suddenly have started producing larger tomatoes.. though if it gets any colder and freezes all the tomatoes on the plants will be ruined. I picked 26 red tomatoes (off two plants), maybe 6-8 Romas and 1 large yellow tomato tonight.
You need a little outrigger device for the monorail that would let you run it through the barn on your rail way.
Awesome!
Your harrow is already making the lines for you... then you rake that smooth to put in holes with your dibbler. Why not plant the garlic in the trenches from the harrow, then gently rake the hills from the harrow over the garlic? Spacing down the line isn't so important if you are well spaced from line to line and can get at weeds that way.
Also, I highly recommend when doing heavy work like dumping sand, roll those bins all the way out to the end and start there... then each trip becomes shorter and easier, rather than longer and harder. (I know, it is the same amount of work in the end, but the worst is done when you are fresher, and mentally it just seems better! :) )
We hope there will be no weeding at all to do, Susan. But for that we need the spacings to be spot on. The harrow tynes are the wrong distance apart for what you suggest. Also, Henry doesn't walk in really straight lines so we'd end up with gaps and overlaps, I think!
It works!! Great video, well done, looks like a whole lot of hard work - it'll keep you really fit :) :)
Really enjoy all your videos. Just a note: I’m not a soils engineer, but I do know that sometimes sand can have an adverse affect on the texture of the soil. Not a suggestion, just a “what if.”
You're right, but our heavy clay soil benefits from it. We'll probably only add sand every second planting (so every 6 years).
*I REALLY wish I had a monorail!!!*
I just planted my garlic!!! Not 2 thousand cloves though 😂😂 And I mulched with sawdust, I hope it turns out well for you and me!!
Excellent! Feels good, doesn't it?
Way Out West Blow-in blog indeed it does!!
Hurrah!
Do bring an update when the garlic is ready. How about your experiments with the wood chip?
We just don't have enough woodchip
Fascinating! Would it be possible to lay a large, flat net or mesh over the hay to keep it from blowing away?
I just thought imagine Imagine the rails would extend over the length of the field. Next thing I see you laying down the monorail. lol
bread minds think alike or however the saying was.
Now I think about whether it would be useful to have some kind of winch to pull stuff over the field. Perhaps on a wagon.
Having just discovered your channel I'm loving this new video. Having just planted two rows of garlic at our allotment I don't envy you planting 2400 cloves on a field scale!
One thought about the railway/monorail interaction though. Could one rail from the railway be extended beyond the end of the line to give a connection point to the monorail track kit? You could either then tranship from the narrow guage trucks to the monorail on the area beyond the bandsaw or, if clearances allowed through doors, etc, even use one rail of the workshop railway as a bit of permanent monorail.
If I'd built the twin track differently then yes the monorail could have run on it - but it's buried in concrete on one side so it can't now
If you are going to keep using the field it might pay to extend the railway down the middle of the field.You could use the horse to pull the railway cart.
Yes please for the update
Very nice!!! 😉Ecorail.
Could you maybe get a broadcast spreader for the sand? Not taking anything away from the monorail that's awesome.
If the Atlantic wasn’t so deep I’d drive my little tractor over from Virginia and disc up your field. Best of luck with the garlic crop!
I appreciate the offer, Frank. Definitely need a little disc harrow, but it just hasn't happened yet.
I wonder how hard it would be to make one? The angle iron frame would be easy and cheap, but I think the discs are high carbon and would be dear.
You might be able to plasma cut the discs out of mild steel and then case hardening. The latter would require an old buiscuit tin and some bone meal.
I looked into it and the discs need to be dished. For lifting up the soil. Otherwise it will only slice it and compact it. I think I could cut and harden discs, but dishing them too? I don't think I have the time
Hello sir Nice Video👍👍👍💐
Thank you Gurwinder
I'm very interested!
Love Garlic...!!!
Y'all never stop amazing me with the good common scene used in your technology!!! I am very interested in the up date and I feel sure they will come up. Do you still keep bees 🐝? Thanks , Phillip Hall
Thanks Phillip. Yes I do - but not many hives any more.
Well done :) ... can the dibber be attached to the 'harrowing' thingy so that those two procedures can be done in one pass, and all with Henry power rather than Tim&Henry power? Perhaps as part of the weight load on the dibbler could a person be hanging on back there and do the planting too?
I've got very sandy soil, adding sand just looks so wrong to me I can't help but laugh. Wish we could cast a magic spell and blend our soils. We would both be in heaven!
Ha! Good plan. I think I'd rather have ours than yours though - ours is too heavy but full of good stuff, but it's harder to keep nutrients in sandy soil, isn't it?
I knw you guys had a son bt still wana knw if you guys has a daughter too as well..I love watching you both so much
Don't criticize your four-legged assistant.
It looks like he was really _hoofing it._ 😉
I know of where you can get some biochar to help amend that soil
What a neat system! I loved the video as per usual. An unrelated question- how old are the horses? I know Flora is around 7 or 8, but I can't recall Winnie or Henry's ages. Perhaps between 15 and 20? I'd have to take a peek at their teeth for a real guess!
Ohhhhh I hope they come up. You work so hard and invent some fabulous things. Is there absolutely.no was you could practice permaculture so you could use chickens to cut your work load bless you both. Have you seen the permaculture magazine here in England? Also Justin Rhodes of Permaculture chickens on you tube works fields with his chickens and he lets them do all the hard work and has great ideas like you Tim ti cut the wirk load. I worrry about your backs. Xx
Thanks, Tina. We wouldn't know what to do with lots of hens so our permaculture is more about tree and bush planting.
Brill!
Good work everyone! I have faith in this garlic crop. Will you be able to ship to Canada when it’s been harvested?
Thanks, Susan. Best not count our garlic till it's up though
The dibber seems to 'cog' as each row of teeth touch the ground, which makes it harder to pull. Have you considered offsetting the teeth, or even arranging them in a spiral so the load would be more constant?
Actually that was me - going back and forth to make the holes better-defined. In fact it seemed to roll easily enough
Yes be so grand to see a sea of garlic
Could horse pull the garlic dimple-R ?
If those pipe things where a bit longer ? Help or dense soil more a issue ?
We're learning all the time - I think I wouldn't change the dibber spikes, but I'm thinking I might make it so there are only three rows instead of 4. That way I wouldn't need so much weight on it
Great video with lots of ingenious bits. just an idea but could you use the sand in boxes as the weights for the dibber?
Thanks, Graham
Yes, but where's the advantage?
Advantage would be that you can use the sand as ballast on the dibber instead of the blocks then the sand is pretty close to where you want it for top dressing and the dibber then weighs less to roll back and put in the barn