Originally Posted by Oldman03
Originally Posted by 5sdad
Originally Posted by 1911a1
Originally Posted by 5sdad
I haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has been covered. I have never really known what "chopping" cotton means. Help please.


Weeding the cotton with a hoe.


Thanks.
Sounds a lot like "walking beans" up here - for us it was mostly pulling weeds, but sometimes we used hoes, hooks, or corn knives. (Still have the scar on my left index finger from careless use of the last.)



Weeding the cotton with a hoe.

No.....

Chopping cotton and hoeing cotton are two different things. Chopping cotton is done first.... that is when you thin the plants. Hoeing cotton is getting the weeds out. You only chop cotton once, but you usually had to hoe the cotton at least twice and sometimes 3 times. Picked cotton by hand, too.


I stand corrected, just shows you how much I did. We had to do the same thinning with chile peppers also. I remember trying to get the roots from Johnson grass was tough. The roots were like cancer.

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