- Location
- East Sussex
I am becoming very disenchanted with growing Herbal leys.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I cannot get them to last.
I have a feeling that growing them on heavy wet clay land is not suitable. They start off very well and we try not to overgraze and fence in blocks. We rest it during the winter and have just lightly grazed now.
The Chicory soon disappears and then by year three it is all grass as this dominates without any being planted, which smothers the Clover.
Some of them become full of thistles and nettles within a couple of years.
This being an important part of payments for SFI on a grass farm looks to be a non starter.
Or is it my management?
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I cannot get them to last.
I have a feeling that growing them on heavy wet clay land is not suitable. They start off very well and we try not to overgraze and fence in blocks. We rest it during the winter and have just lightly grazed now.
The Chicory soon disappears and then by year three it is all grass as this dominates without any being planted, which smothers the Clover.
Some of them become full of thistles and nettles within a couple of years.
This being an important part of payments for SFI on a grass farm looks to be a non starter.
Or is it my management?