Planting by hand... a strenuous endeavor.

OK. so, being the pioneering sort, we took to planting 3 rows of corn by hand (well, literally, by rake, hoe and prybar, but that's not important). Hubby & I, taking full advantage of the cold snap we've been in since the rain, decided to do the "light work" of planting some of the seeds we have for white corn, yellow corn, strawberry corn and pop corn after Hubby's cousin disked the field Sunday. We used the rakes to try to level the ground for the rows... though only 2 got leveled due to the inordinate amount of labor & effort involved. Then, we used the prybar to make the 2-3 inch holes while standing. Great idea we thought. Not as much bending to stick our fingers in the dirt to make holes. Then we dropped the seeds into each hole and covered them with our feet. As it happens, 30 pounds of iron is what a prybar is made up of. Approximately 600 reps of lifting the bar 600 times, each, it got a bit heavy & we decided that there had to be a better way. So, we hoed up the next row, dropped the seed in the trench and covered it back up with the hoes... we were SOOOoooo spent after that, so we called it a day.

Lining up the row

The field was disked N-S, our rows will go E-W.