Sun, Dirt & Water + Fertiliser = Healthy Plants

The ewes are eating lots of oats....the silos are emptying fast!

We need to sow more oats to fill the silos at harvest time.

Seeds need sun, dirt and water to grow.

We add another ingredient to boost them along......fertiliser.

It comes in really big bags, you need a loader to move them about because they are really heavy. This bag is worth about $750.00.
I would not like to carry it home from the shops!

 

Come ON Muscles!

need a bit more horsepower

PopPop says when he was younger the fertiliser came in little bags and they lifted it by hand. PopPop must have been really strong then.
Today we have lots of machines to make lifting easier. It will save our backs and bodies.

oats in the left and fertiliser in the right

All loaded up and ready to go.........

Sowing the Seed

This is the way we sow the oats, sow the oats, sow the oats!

This is the way we sow the oats, early in the morning!

The ground is moist and the sun is warm, perfect for planting seeds.

Some of the paddocks on our farm are hilly.

We use a different machine to plant the seeds in these paddocks.

 

 This machine does not move very much dirt,

 

it makes a very small groove in the ground and the seed and fertiliser are dropped in..

 

This is where the oat seed and fertiliser are carried

 

All these seeds will make hundreds more at harvest time.

And in a couple of months this will be a paddock of green, green oats.

The ewes and lambs will love it!