- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Wish I could help, it is available here somewhere.Most the cover crops I have in will be harvested for my seed next year.
I still have not been able to get phacillia. Can someone in NZ send me a bag?
Wish I could help, it is available here somewhere.Most the cover crops I have in will be harvested for my seed next year.
I still have not been able to get phacillia. Can someone in NZ send me a bag?
Use 2,4D gives the clover a shock but certainly here does not kill it.I have a paddock of stuffed crimson clover too. Sprayed with MCPA and something else to help kill broadleafs. Still some crimson alive, but not enough.
I also have a pivot with corn standing over winter. I spread shaftal on by plane but am struggling to find any plants, just slugs
You need to see if you can import my foliar feed (avatar) that will sort the slugs and give the crop a boost.Your not on your own there!!! I might be spreading again this round...so far about 20kg ha of seed gone out...slugs and chem damage...nightmare...
Antaass is a tough as nails clover
Ant...
Surely a Daikon radish is going to be little use as a grazing crop? Most of the root drives down through the soil doesn't it, way below where stock can utilise it?
Would beet grow well enough to justify the expense, for you?It depends if your chasing a ground breaker or feed...im chasing feed and something that will kill slugs.
I have a localmfriend who is going to try a grazing turnip this year so be good to see in action.
I dont have compaction to deal with...
Ant...
Sheep don't really like to eat Daikon Radish.Daikon radish will grow at any time of year. From what I have read I planted mine thicker than I should. In a mix I think 1 kg/ha would be enough.
I know we have posted before but what you and Steel are quoting/ha is eye watering. At full rate here £10- £12/ha (16-20 Oz Dollars) depending on water conditioner and sticker required. Even allowing for haulage to Oz (approx 20 Oz dollars/ha) on small quantities of 20ha, still worth a go if you are allowed to import an EU reg Fert. You need to see if you can get it past your customs then compare the effectiveness. Am now sure I have got the water problem with element tie up solved.It depends if your chasing a ground breaker or feed...im chasing feed and something that will kill slugs.
I have a localmfriend who is going to try a grazing turnip this year so be good to see in action.
I dont have compaction to deal with...
Ant...
Would beet grow well enough to justify the expense, for you?
I wonder how compatible radish and soft turnips would be, then you'll have the quantity as well as the cycling of deep nutrients.
Sheep don't really like to eat Daikon Radish.
Daikon Radish emits a very pungent (egg) odour when breaking down and I wonder if there is something in the leaf that the sheep don't particularly like?I found that out this year, but they prefer it to Faba Beans. Took a while but they ate everything else first then they ate the radishes and nibbled the beans a bit. In the future I will still plant them but at a lower rate and with a diverse mix.
Wish I could help, it is available here somewhere.
Will a
cow or sheep eat these?
Seed price? From seeding to graze how long? Wet wet dirt?
I see they use for HC as well..also japanese ones like cooler than weather...
I think down here we are missing out...its all ryegrass clover...and rape in Summer...no diversity...
Ant...
That's handy to know.I have contacted a couple of NZ seed companies selling phacelia and asked for the seed test results for foreign seeds as I need that to import the seed, but they have not sent it. It is fine to import as long as it is commercially packaged and tested seed.
Daikon Radish emits a very pungent (egg) odour when breaking down and I wonder if there is something in the leaf that the sheep don't particularly like?
That's handy to know.
Give the slackos a rev up
Less than half that here and they get shipped NZ.My sheep did eat the radish, when they did not have much else.
Seed costs about $10/kg
Do you any ideas on a CC mix?Im going to swing oast bunnings tomorrow and make me up a spring crop cover crop for sh*ts and giggles...
Do you any ideas on a CC mix?