Saturday, April 27, 2013

Tractor and Tiller


  We have a tractor.  It's red.    We have a mower for the tractor.  And now...

We have a TILLER!

We are the happy owners of 5 acres of land. The back 3 acres are mostly wild, though Kevin has mowed a path so we can walk around there. 

I've thought for a LONG time that we could get really serious about gardening. So far, Kevin has nobly done almost all the work.  Last year, with Daniel's birth in the middle of planting season, we had a relatively small garden.

We've talked for a while about getting a tiller for the tractor.  It makes tilling easier to use that big honking, stable machine rather than pushing along a walking tiller and letting it drag Kevin all over.

So this tiller showed up on Craig's list for an excellent price.  Kevin drove out and discovered he'd need to make some minor modifications for it to work on our tractor, but decided he could handle a "little project".  Fortunately, he was able to make the modifications relatively easily.

So now we have a tiller.  In the picture above, Kevin tilled out a new gardening area, and planted 6 raspberry plants.  Exciting.

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