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Spring Planting!

April 12, 2016 By Talya Tate Boerner 4 Comments

spring planting

I love driving across Arkansas during spring. In the Ozarks, redbuds and dogwoods compete for attention, and roadsides are exploding with wildflowers. Spring planting is in full swing as farmers and gardeners put seeds in the ground. It’s no secret that harvest is my favorite time of year, but after a slow cold winter, spring planting is cause for celebration. Not that there’s time for a party.

Party in the field, maybe.

Of course, without spring planting, there would be no fall harvest. And timing is key. With spring comes wild weather bringing storms and hail, tornadoes, dust storms, a chance of frost? Rain, rain go away until we need another shower.

The soil is rich and wide awake, the fields leveled and hipped. The state is humming.

Here are a few spring planting pics from across Arkansas…

CORN: Yell County
Victoria helping grandpa plant corn. There’s nothing sweeter than a farm girl, am I right? Raising her up right ???

Spring Planting: Yell Co, McCool Farms

photo courtesy of Chuck McCool, McCool Farms

RICE: Poinsett County
I love everything about this picture—freshly planted rice field beneath a blissful blue sky.

Spring Planting - Poinsett Co

photo courtesy of Scott Matthews, Scott Matthews Farms.

GREENS: Mississippi County
The students at The Delta School in Wilson are planting the school’s first garden. There’s an entire curriculum within this garden.

spring planting: delta school

 

COTTON: Washington County
I planted Delta cottonseed in my sunny windowsill garden. Once the seeds germinate and our last chance of frost has passed, I’ll transplant my seedlings into the garden. Birds love to use cotton for nesting.

spring planting: windowsill garden of cotton

 

SOYBEANS: Mississippi County.
Gorgeous!! Planting beans near Wilson. I love to see the dirt flying.

Spring Planting: Mississippi County

photo courtesy of Becton Bell, Bell Planting Company

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Comments

  1. Barbara Tate says

    April 12, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    You captured the planting season, for sure. Love the pictures.

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  2. Dorothy Johnson says

    April 13, 2016 at 10:02 am

    Love the pictures, especially Victoria. I’ve been seeing some to those sights in our traveling.

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  3. Karen says

    April 14, 2016 at 7:03 am

    Interesting fact about cotton plants. I saw some at a nursury the other day, and I wondered why people without farms would buy them. Obviously, I didn’t grow up on Arkansas! But I might go back a get a few. Great post, Talya!

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  4. Rachel Hough says

    April 14, 2016 at 9:04 am

    What a fantastic post! I went and visited the Delta School website and was interested in their gardening program. I’m working on one for our school as well.

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