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Anyone using a 2 year IRG, clover, vetch silage ley?
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7291082" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>Will all depend on the length of time you intend to keep it. If only for a year I would use red clover and tetraflorum, a monster tetraploid IRG variety. Can even be sown in spring and you will get 3 cuts out of it no sweat.</p><p></p><p>If you want to keep the red clover 3 years then would switch to hybrids, probably would use Lofa (festulolium) and possibly a diploid IRG to give some ground cover.</p><p></p><p>Grass/herbage seed is all expensive but the seed cost is absolutely fudge all compared to the fertiliser/cake spend you will have alongside it. Don't try to economise on this kind of seed, it's pointless.</p><p></p><p>White clover tends to be more expensive but is a very different plant.</p><p></p><p>Put the mix in, feed it (clovers need P and K like anything else) and cut it until you get bored.</p><p></p><p>Can establish under spring barley very very easily if sowing in the spring. Sow the barley at a reduced rate. Put the grass/clover seed in on top, one quick and easy clover safe spray at the right time, some N for the barley (no more than 50 units) and mow it all 1st week of July.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7291082, member: 54866"] Will all depend on the length of time you intend to keep it. If only for a year I would use red clover and tetraflorum, a monster tetraploid IRG variety. Can even be sown in spring and you will get 3 cuts out of it no sweat. If you want to keep the red clover 3 years then would switch to hybrids, probably would use Lofa (festulolium) and possibly a diploid IRG to give some ground cover. Grass/herbage seed is all expensive but the seed cost is absolutely fudge all compared to the fertiliser/cake spend you will have alongside it. Don't try to economise on this kind of seed, it's pointless. White clover tends to be more expensive but is a very different plant. Put the mix in, feed it (clovers need P and K like anything else) and cut it until you get bored. Can establish under spring barley very very easily if sowing in the spring. Sow the barley at a reduced rate. Put the grass/clover seed in on top, one quick and easy clover safe spray at the right time, some N for the barley (no more than 50 units) and mow it all 1st week of July. [/QUOTE]
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