You can row the cotton

You can row the cotton, the old timers would say. Looking out on the long rows you can see the stand of cotton. Plants are really growing in the warm nights. These cotton plants were up in about a week, a plant will be healthy and more productive if it is not stressed trying to get out of the ground. We normally no-till the cotton ground, but after all the hard rains we had over the fall and winter, the ground was compacted and had to be plowed before being planted. After planting we had 2.2" of rain that sat the soil back down like concrete, so we ran a rotary hoe across the top of the rows to break the crust. Cotton is a finicky plant.