- Location
- Chipping Norton
Apologies @Two Tone, I didn't get a notification that you'd tagged me in this one and I only found it by complete accident.My neighbour has similar thoughts of planting Stubble turnips after a 1st cut of Italian Ryegrass silage that is on the deck now.
My thoughts are that he ought to let the grass green up again before he puts Roundup on it or it won’t work.
What sort of rate of 360 Roundup do you think he should use?
He wants to DD it into the grass.
Could he DD it, then spray it up to a week later?
Any ideas @Warnesworth ?
As others have said the grass will out compete the turnips and a robust rate of glyphosate needs to be used if mature grassland but I'm sure you know that anyway. A few people have tried this and the results have not been startling if DD'ed. I think the decaying biomass really deprives the brassica of nutrition which leads to poor establishment and slow growth. Therefore a robust nitrogen rate at drilling is probably required.
Its a great idea though and I can see the potential in all sorts of places. I think @Old Spot has been trialling drilling all sorts of 'cover crop' mixes into his grassland for autumn/winter grazing. Perhaps he has some ideas?