Winter beans. What’s ideal depth ? 4inches? I guess main issues are crows and pre-em. Have ploughed or claydoned in previously so been well buried. Pre-ems obviously quite strong, pdm, kerb and some clomazone potentially.
I drilled mine with a claydon at 4-5 inches and left unrolled from the 17th October and was glad they went in that depth as it rained and couldn’t get pre em on which included roundup until 4th November and I was only just in time as they were very close to emerging.
The more weather and time the seedbed gets before pre em and glypho the better I reckon. It's compacted headlands and driving on areas already drilled that jiggers beans up, don't think they mind being good and deep so long as the soil is soft
A right mix here, used an old cultivator drill and most of them went in circa 3-4" deep but there were quite a few at 2", got Pre emms on day ofter drilling, just poking through now, rooks have been a bit of an issue but not bad, a few dead ones left about seems to deter them.
The rest on heavy ground I spun on and ploughed (only just) and some I managed to run over with the powerharrow and one field was too heavy/wet so just did the tramlines. Dont expect to see them up till Christmas as circa 6' deep on some pretty snotty clay if they come at all.
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