No till after grass

Bury the Trash said:

do you mean the likes of annual / perennial meadow grasses im not sure im too worried about them as they can fill in gaps be grazed and surely are'nt too competitive with the new seeds anyway .. well stop clover a bit I guess when establishing... creeping fescue sort of thing would be worse I suppose...

and don't you have to be aware of pastor/forefront residue on the soil for when drilling the new seeds ..thats what I meant about the ally.

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Bury the Trash said:

will be a fair old seed bank of them as well don't forget.

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hendrebc said:

Red clover and plantain? Maybe a few really aggressive fast growing grasses too. They should be able to compete with the moss and grass that already there without spraying off.

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Karliboy said:

So I got a 3 acre field at about 1000 feet.
Some ridge and furrow various humps and hollows and a few rushes and fairly mossy.
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Field got 2 ton lime per acre last summer
P and k at 1. And obviously produces bugger all.
not worried about loosing to much grazing time from it.
Got pile of fym to spread on it.
Got no drill so can only heavy Harrow broadcast seed and roll.
Don’t really want to spray off unless really necessary but can really drag it up with harrows.
Looking to strip graze with back fence. What would people advisable to throw on seed wise cheap and cheerful to improve soil structure organic matter etc.

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