The alfalfa planting is finally finished! I followed up with the HUGE field roller. Getting it from the implement dealer where I rented it to home was an adventure. It closed with giant hydraulic cylinders that raised the two outside sections high into the air. Even closed into transport mode it hung over into the on coming lane and because it was so heavy, running on gravel was tough. It looked like a child's robotic toy scaled up to an enormous size. It did the job though. Rolled the ground pretty flat. The attached image shows what it looked like from behind my tractor.
The asparagus ground was disked for the first time in 6 years. The asparagus area had alfalfa on it for the past 5 years. We didn't spray to kill off the alfalfa in an effort to keep the produce areas as free of chemicals as possible, but I can see that that alfalfa will be hanging on for many sessions of cultivation before it finally gives up to our mechanical means of "weed" control.
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