What are you doing this Sunday, we are making beds for ginseng

I know I could use a time out. Getting up 330am being in the fields by 5 then off to the night job at 2

It takes about week to plant ginseng. Thats with harvesting the rye or wheat for the straw on top of making the beds

@HumanEarth It is tremendous work and I told you before I admire you for all that you do just to make ends meet.

Great job my friend.

That's a Farmall Supper C and the other little red tractor is Farmall B

Them are also seen in the top photo if you blow up the photo

@HumanEarth teach m how to drive it please. I'll teach you about rocks lol

I'll teach about you about rock picking

Left foot pedal is the clutch in the gear you want 123 or 4th and then the reverse gear

The brake pedals. Yes I said brake pedals. Tractors have two brake pedals. One for the left rear and the right rear tires. Thats to help with making sharp turns, getting unstuck in mud and other cool stuff

Tractors sometimes don't have gas pedals. They use levers for your hands and some use both. Thats so you can lock in your rpms in.

Like with planting yesterday and using big old John Deere with straw shredder

So the seeds get enough coverage for the winter. I had to set the rpms on the John Deere to pull the shredder at 8550 rpm. So each row would take 4 to 4 and half big bales of straw to cover the seeds

Each row in this garden is about 168 feet long times that by 24 feet wide.

That's one just one bay. Now add in 68 bays that long and 4 bays that are 2,400 long. And thats the size of this years ginseng garden

Commerical Chinese buyers mostly, but some I make some private sale to.

Family

@HumanEarth That's good... it's great that you all had a turn and it wasn't just left to one or two of you.

Like last year. It was mostly the two of us

Corn, soy beans, rye, and sometimes wheat

We plant every year

@HumanEarth Ah I see.
Thank you!