Oats Notes

We planted oats on a long-fallow patch this spring.  The neighbor was kind enough to plow the sod, then I tilled it and used a simple shoulder-slung broadcaster to spread the seeds.  Didn't have a cultipacker so I settled for dragging the whole works with a bedspring hooked behind an ATV.  The oats came up great, and it was a pleasure to gaze at them all summer, especially when they began to head out – such a soothing color, that milky green.  They're golden now, and yesterday I started...