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Deep plowing a field.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...067#post221255
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...958#post129586
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...006#post210598
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...139#post126044
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...833#post179118
Never heard of that before this..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7F4X3idewA&t=20s
It looks like in many of the videos of different fields, they were burying the humus and bringing sand to the surface. A few had sand that looks like a river deposit, from a flood, and the black humus was buried, so they flipped that layering. It has to be pretty good clay schist surface to block rain from draining into the soil.
I removed the depth guide from my 20" 2 bottom plow so I could make it go deeper last winter. My reason was not to bring the sane up but to burry organics deep into the sandy soil I think this fall I'm going to try and turn a 10" layer of straw and manure into the garden plot. This summer I had fewer weeds and didn't have to water near as much, but the top still packed hard from watering Still the crops were an improvement over previous years.