{"id":2860,"date":"2013-06-07T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2013-06-10T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:56:56","slug":"harrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/harrowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-08-09.12.08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2816\" alt=\"furrow from stump jump harrow\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-08-09.12.08-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-08-09.12.08-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-08-09.12.08.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After seeding I ran the harrows round the paddock to cover the seeds and turn the soil over to get the oats to a better depth. \u00a0Oats germinate best between 50 and 75mm, but we probably only got them down about 40mm. \u00a0 We have two 800mm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murrayag.com.au\/harrows-cultivation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">stump jump harrows<\/a>\u00a0on the draw bar, so with an operating width just over 1.5m, it takes quite a few trips round the paddock to get it done. \u00a0You can travel a lot faster than with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/tickling-the-paddock\/\" target=\"_blank\">landscape rake<\/a> and it does leave satisfying furrows as you go. Which is just as well, as I didn&#8217;t finish till well after dark, so just had to follow the last row round, and round, and round&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gq-Q1_eDCI0?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeding I ran the harrows round the paddock to cover the seeds and turn the soil over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2816,"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":"","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-2860","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\/2013-06-08-09.12.08.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}