FYM when sowing stubble turnips?

[Selectamatic]

Evening all,

After spring barley, I drag the stubble up, broadcast on some kale/turnips/rape mix, roll and graze with sheep over winter.

Im planning on doing the same again, but throw a load of FYM on the stubble before pulling the pig tail drag through it.

Will this work? Will the stubbles still grow, and will sheep be happy to eat them? I expect that by the time they are ready for grazing, the FYM will be largely rotten away?

 

[RAF]

Do it here works perfect , crack on

 

[ollie989898]

Be fine. I had a client that always put a modest dose of chicken litter on before tilling the stubble for turnips.

 

[Brisel]

This an excellent way of growing good turnips. Remember to adjust your bagged fertiliser accordingly.

You've got months for the muck to rot down before grazing.

 

[ajcc]

Is a question of timeliness......turnips after “spring” barley are going in later than after winter barley. Will mucking the ground further delay the planting? Depends on workload and available kit but if they are not in before August 15th then the turnip crop becomes questionable in the majority of seasons...they need 10 weeks growing weather and days are getting a lot shorter.
I’d put them in and spread the muck after if I was too tight to 15 August.

 

[Brisel]

Spreading the muck after sowing could help with Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle, though you'll lose more of the N in the muck by not incorporating it. You're right about the timings being tight after spring barley. Mine go in after early cut wheat & the drill is chasing the last few bales off the field.

 

[hendrebc]

How well does it work ok putting muck on after drilling it? Wouldn't the muck cover a lot of the small seedlings and smother them?
I suppose the seed for stubble turnip is cheap enough to put the seed rate up.

 

[ollie989898]

How well does it work ok putting muck on after drilling it? Wouldn't the muck cover a lot of the small seedlings and smother them?
I suppose the seed for stubble turnip is cheap enough to put the seed rate up.

Be fine, these brassica type crops are pretty aggressive, so long as it isn't 5 inches thick or something daft- I've spread well rotted pig FYM on a direct drilled crop of OSR before.

 

[milkloss]

Depending on how much muck, it might be better to run a tine through it first. When we reseed grass we have to disc it before muck or else it’s too sloppy to pull them through it.

 

[ollie989898]

Is a question of timeliness......turnips after “spring” barley are going in later than after winter barley. Will mucking the ground further delay the planting? Depends on workload and available kit but if they are not in before August 15th then the turnip crop becomes questionable in the majority of seasons...they need 10 weeks growing weather and days are getting a lot shorter.
I’d put them in and spread the muck after if I was too tight to 15 August.

You are right, they need to be in the ground and moving as soon as possible. In the old days didn't they use to broadcast them into standing crops just before harvest?

 

[hendrebc]

Be fine, these brassica type crops are pretty aggressive, so long as it isn't 5 inches thick or something daft- I've spread well rotted pig FYM on a direct drilled crop of OSR before.

Thanks. What about on a cereal? I have a pile of well rotted fym in the corner of a field of DD spring oats for wholecrop. It's a few inches tall out of the slots now it was drilled 10th of may.
Bloody spreader bust a bearing when I wanted to spread it

 

[ollie989898]

Thanks. What about on a cereal? I have a pile of well rotted fym in the corner of a field of DD spring oats for wholecrop. It's a few inches tall out of the slots now it was drilled 10th of may.
Bloody spreader bust a bearing when I wanted to spread it

I don't think I would do it on cereals. Spring crops need to get a serious move on and I wouldn't like running them over with spreaders. I suspect oats or barley would be totally unfazed but I have never seen that done.