Ram pump works flawlesly. Problem is in the spring. It seems l tapped in a underground storage tank rather thain a true spring and it flew real strong for a month then the flow dropped. It setled at around at least 100gal/day wich is enough for our dayly needs but to litle to run a ram pump.
I will install a electric pump (good thing l dug in a empty pipe for a cable!) And transplant this rampump in the creek to get me some water for a future fish pond and irrigation.
Been practicing this deep mulch system for some time now. Thats a jackpot, l highly recomend. No more tilling, watering, fertilising or weeding. Can use fall leaves too, but hay is better.
Here we are planting peas. Just spread the hay in rows and put seeds in between. Once they grow a bit put a nother lair of hay.
Ha! This is a kind of a milestone picture. First crop on the new farm
Been doing some wood prepping too
Wonderful pics. Sunny and short sleaves. Iām so envious 
Pretty much just above freezing and extreemly windy for the most part here.
I see Neza is still the only one not taking a rest from swinging the axe
What about Mom, you donāt see
that it hit so hard that the iron pipe on the piston twisted 
Food growing is in full swing!
One of 2 potato fealds. I spread a few inches of leaves over shallow planted potatoes. Some first time l did this on potatoes, people on youtube say it works good. Smaller harvest compared to classical hilling but apart from raking and haulin gleaves from a nearby forest virtualy no work later on, exept harvest. Will seeā¦
Corn and sunflowers planted tooā¦
And the second feald, potato and beans. It was forrest a month ago. I let some trees grow and trimed them to make bean poles.
Wow! You are sure a different kind of farmer. In all my days, starting back when people farmed with horses here, I have never seen anyone farm like this. I canāt wait to see how it works out for you. Are you doing anything with the āhot houseā you built, or is it to far away? TomC
A real permie, Kristijan. Only plans over here but nothing more . Respect!
Tom, Iām not much of a farmer but Iām familiar to potatoes. Iām confident they will thrive. The best yield Iāve ever had is when buried in leafs or grass clippings. Only problem I see is wind, but Kristijan may have a trick up his sleeve how to tie the leafs down
Either way Iām impressed. One day his children will be extreemly grateful to have had this kind of upbringing.
Iām no farmer either. I was lucky when I was a kid, that I could get away from my paper route to go out to my aunts/uncles and help during harvest time. I thought my folks were giving me a break from the city life, and my uncles thought I was being sent out to be an extra hand for the harvest. Either way a good experience for meā one uncle farmed with horses and put hay up loose, another used a baler, and then another did custom combining and he taught me to drive a truck when I was about 8 years old.
Kristijan is a very smart (tricky) person. Iām confident he has a plan. Thi nk of all the things he has done already with a water source, and saw mill, and we havenāt heard from his wife how he is doing with getting the house ready for next winter. It is cutting into his wood gas time
Yes. It just amazed me what a good job of cutting grass his son was doing with that homemade syth. When he gets to be about 15 he wonāt be quite som anxious to do that . TomC
Tom, l own 228 horses all together. Only 8 of them are usefull for farming, but preety useless on my terrain so l have to experimentā¦
The root celkar/hot greenhouse is my biggest project so far, and one of my most sucessfull ones, but unfortunaly it was left behindā¦
House renovation has not stepped one stepp forward yet unfortunalyā¦ current global/local/personal situations are not a path of rosesā¦
My mother told my wife the other day a simple truth. We dont own our children. If they drift a other way from their parents, great, l did too. Untill then we try to teach them to be practical.
how far away did you move K? DId you get rid of the old place or sell it off?
Hey Kristijan !
On todayās news: Slovenia considers the epidemic over with. First country in the EU. Travelling to Slovenia without restrictions is allowed again. Are your meetup plans still on?
Yesterday our neighbours, the Danish, talked about opening their borders. Everyoneās welcome, except Swedish people. Do you accept our runny noses to your meetup?
Maybe I will come to Slovenia too. We take the virus very seriously hereā¦ Not like those pretentious swedes. Lol. I even have a negative Covid 19 test to prove it. ( I wonāt tell you my fever was higher than ever last nightā¦)
Ha, you got this information faster thain l just heared. This is just a proof of how stupid our politicians are. We went from 100% lockdown āfight for your lifeā mode to āits all good, do whatever you likeā practicly over night. Schools, bars, restaurants, public eventsā¦ all open. I dont know what to think anymore.
Runny nose is not a problem. Prepare your passport, l will prepare a strong throat disinfectant 
Billy, a combination of events (corona included) forced us to push house renovation forward 2-3 months. Plan was for it to have a new roof till now but we werent able to do a single thing. Hardwere stores were closed, no way l culd get concrete or even cement. Not to mention friends and family to help me! My family lives far away. We were all alone and once the roof is off it needs to be back on ASAP. Hard for one man to do with working 12h shifts in betweenā¦
So, with hands tyed, we put some more time and efford to farming. Not complaining, l am happy with what we achived. But now l have 3 less months to finish the house till winterā¦ it will be interesting.
The old place belongs to wifes father. We were more or less renting the place
Been haying at my mothers place this week. Got a shower at the end of drying but it dryed good anyways.
I planed to scythe the feald but luckly a neigbour did that for me with a tractor. Saved me a days work and about 6000 calories
How do you guys like my harvester?
SWTH = Slovenian Work Truck Harvester
Great use of the truck
And the field is nearly level, I was beginning to think all of Slovenia was on a side hill
Kristijan; It just hurts my heart to see how hard you have to work, not having equipment to do the job. The big farmers around here use big machines that pick the hay up, chop it into fine pieces, and blow it into simi trucks that follow along around the fields. The part that really hurts me is, as haying evolved, the old equipment that became obsolete, got stuck out beind the barn or in the woods. Any one of those pieces of equipment could be used by you, even the old dump rakes which are back to the horse days, and the loader that picked the hay up off the ground and conveyed it up to a flat bed hay wagon.
Looks like you got a good catch of hay, and I canāt imagine how many truck loads it took to get it off the field. Does your mother have a barn where you will store it? I hope that you got some one to drive the truck and someone else to stomp the hay down while loading.
You truly are one hell of a man! I thought I was stretching the limits when I baled hay and dropped the bales on the ground; then I came back with the tractor and hay wagon and loaded the bales on the wagon. I put the tractor in gear and point it towards the row of hay bales. I ran along side the wagon and thue the bales onto the wagon. When the tractor got off line I had to run to catch the tractor and adjust the direction.
My thoughts are truly with you. TomC
I vote for an old horse drawn hay drag. Here they are considered yard art, often for $100.
Also, a hay wagon seems much needed. If built heavy enough it can also do for hauling logs.
