RIP Pasture...

[WashingtonBay]

Well, I have declared my pasture dead for summer. Anything that's still green is a weed.

So I'm mowing it all down, set the mower low so I pulverize all the poop too. It's probably done now till September. If you wonder, in the next few days, where I am, I'm likely here:

http://www.baywindfarm.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4294&stc=1&d=1247254565


I mow it this way every summer. While I'd love to have a tractor, you can't say my way isn't good at least for the fitness plan and my farmer tan. :cool:

Horses have been put on the back pasture, which is still holding on to a little bit of green under the trees. At least it's shadier...

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[Kaitlyn]

Poor pasture! Poor horses, that looks terrible. How come it looks like that? Is it that way every year?

[WashingtonBay]

Yup... we can't irrigate, no water out there, and it's really sandy here, so it dries up quick in summer. It this were my place, I'd have a well out there so I could irrigate, but alas... we just rent here.

Washington does not get rain all the time. We have rain for nine months of the year, and usually, complete drought for July-Aug-Sept. There's a small chance of rain Sunday they say, but I don't believe it. We probably won't get any rain of significance until Late Sept.

But it's a big difference from my spring picture in my signature!

[Peggy Sue]

WB Yours looks to need LIME too ... Mine is like that and they keep telling me to put Lime on it

[WashingtonBay]

You're right, Peggy... I think it does need limed (there was significant moss this spring)... but what it mostly needs is water.

[Horseaholic]

ouch...ya scared me there with that title for a second..I though you were going to say something else.

You can't even get a reallllyyy long hose to give that poor thing some water?

[WashingtonBay]

I wish... I already have two hoses to reach my whole yard, only one outdoor spigot, and the more hoses I hook to it, the lower the pressure. By the time I strung all the hoses necessary to get out there, there would just be a dribble. There just isn't enough pressure to power it. Plus I'm on a community well with two others, and when my neighbor's watering, we gots nuttin'.

I think if I invested in PVC or other hard pipe, it could keep up enough pressure better, and I've thought about it, but that's real money.

My own place will be irrigated!

[gabhainn]

Oh I dont know I just bought 250 ft of 1" schedule 40 @2.79 a 10' joint, and it was less than 75.00....Kevin

[Gypsy Rose]

Poor pasture! Mine can look almost that bad before the end of summer, mainly because of the smaller area Gypsy has, and the fact that I really need to reseed.

I didn't know lime got rid of moss- I'll have to look into that.

Hope you get the rain, WB!

[luvs2ride1979]

My DH likes to push-mow too, but we're only on 1.5 acres, lol. Drink plenty of water! :D

[WashingtonBay]

Gabhainn, that would get me to the gate, twice that would get me to the middle, probably, but there's still the problem of competition for pressure with me and the neighbor. When one of us is watering, the other can barely function, so he's probably not go along with me starting to irrigate the pasture without a fight, especially because he owns the well.

I think I'm just stuck with it for now. We need to start looking for our new BaywindFarm property!

[WashingtonBay]

I didn't know lime got rid of moss- I'll have to look into that.

Hope you get the rain, WB!

Well, among other causes, it can be a PH problem.

Our summers are always dry, we just expect it. The good news is we don't have tornados and thunderstorms, so there's that. :) We get a bad rap for rain, but we can usually bet money on sunny weather (but not as hot as some) all summer.

[gabhainn]

Gabhainn, that would get me to the gate, twice that would get me to the middle, probably, but there's still the problem of competition for pressure with me and the neighbor. When one of us is watering, the other can barely function, so he's probably not go along with me starting to irrigate the pasture without a fight, especially because he owns the well.

I think I'm just stuck with it for now. We need to start looking for our new BaywindFarm property!
yeah thats a lotta pvc alright, can always do a rain dance.LOL.Kevin

[WashingtonBay]

My DH likes to push-mow too, but we're only on 1.5 acres, lol. Drink plenty of water! :D

That's what I'm back in here doin'... and tryin' to get up the motivation to head back out for one more push before calling it a day... It's about 80 degrees out there... HOT for us pasty white northerners :)

[Country Girl 43]

Oh... glad it was the pasture! You scared me!

[WashingtonBay]

Sorry I scared everyone... did you think I'd buried someone out there? Oh dear...

Everyone's healthy as can be! Promise!

[SedonaThunder]

Wow - that's got to take HOURS! I suppose you could get a great tan and good calf muscles though, huh? ;)

We bought a used, older riding mower but our pasture is too rocky and unlevel to use it out there. I thought we'd use it on the yards but hubby says it's more trouble than it's worth to turn and such with smaller yards (four of them) so he uses the push mower. Now the riding mower just sits there... perhaps I should ask why we're keeping it - seems you need it!

[natisha]

You could strap a couple of bags of lime to your back, backpack style, poke of few holes in the bottom & lime as you walk along. Oh wait, perhaps you should jog to shake the lime out. Can we have a vid please? ;)

[vicklynn]

Oh my, also looks like a good fall seeding is needed.

I wish our place was flat like yours.

We are on a slope and have to dry lot the horses, which is healthy for our pasture, its still green, short right now, horses been on it, but green. One more good seeding this fall and we should be set for a couple yrs.

[WashingtonBay]

Wow - that's got to take HOURS! I suppose you could get a great tan and good calf muscles though, huh? ;)

We bought a used, older riding mower but our pasture is too rocky and unlevel to use it out there. I thought we'd use it on the yards but hubby says it's more trouble than it's worth to turn and such with smaller yards (four of them) so he uses the push mower. Now the riding mower just sits there... perhaps I should ask why we're keeping it - seems you need it!

I usually break it up into 3-4 days.

It is good for the fitness plan, but today my calves are cramping up. I'm drinking more water, but I think I might be low on potassium or something. I may call it a day and ask hubby to bring home some bananas. :)

[WashingtonBay]

You could strap a couple of bags of lime to your back

Wait a minute... isn't this why we get horses?

For weight bearing and lawn mowing?

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[natisha]

Wait a minute... isn't this why we get horses?

For weight bearing and lawn mowing?

4299 Awesome picture!

[WashingtonBay]

:D

[Petra]

:eek: you need a riding mower!

[3equines]

Washington does not get rain all the time. We have rain for nine months of the year, and usually, complete drought for July-Aug-Sept. There's a small chance of rain Sunday they say, but I don't believe it. We probably won't get any rain of significance until Late Sept.


Except the 2 weeks I plan to spend in the mountains with my horses, right?;)

Fortuantely, I have a swamp full of canary reed grass that I turn the ponies out into for an hour a day all summer long. The rest of my pasture is otherwise oficially dead. I'll have to get a pic of the invisible horses in the 8-ft-tall swamp grass!

[WashingtonBay]

Except the 2 weeks I plan to spend in the mountains with my horses, right?;)

Well, the mountains do change things a bit!

You could spend those two weeks in my pasture, you wouldn't find any rain. ;)