{"id":2806,"date":"2013-06-06T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2013-06-10T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T08:33:37","slug":"tickling-the-paddock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/tickling-the-paddock\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickling the Paddock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130607_124844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2833\" alt=\"landscape rake\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130607_124844-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130607_124844-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130607_124844.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To prepare the paddock for sowing, I used the landscape rake to de-thatch the dead weeds, scarify the surface and loosen some stones. \u00a0Our version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wantfa.com.au\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=94&amp;Itemid=69\" target=\"_blank\">no-till farming<\/a>. \u00a0Although it is a 6ft landscape rake, you have to use it on an angle so you can windrow any debris and not drag all the soil with you, so you basically have a working width of about 1.5m. \u00a0The paddock is 100m wide and 170m long so it took over 6 hours to finish. \u00a0We bought the rake last year to use on the oat paddock, and I did the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/fire-breaks\/\">fire-breaks<\/a>\u00a0with it in December, it was a great buy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrizzi.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandro Agrizzi <\/a>in Bunbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To prepare the paddock for sowing, I used the landscape rake to de-thatch the dead weeds, scarify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tickling the paddock https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2806","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130607_124844.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}