Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
No rain forecast here and getting up to 30 degrees by the end of the week.
Grass Renovation thread
- Thread starter Kevtherev
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
My Beet mucks parked in the yard tonight , it don't smell like the old stuff, that was 10 mile away type of smell [emoji23]
- Location
- East Sussex
Looks a handy bit of kit.... what's the story there?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
You’ll be spreading sewage cake next derek....
- Location
- Scot Borders
Jeez. It's an ill divided world. Plenty folk up here doing flood irrigation of the worst kind. Flood warnings about all over the country. 35 mm here in 15 hours.
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
They’ve had huge rain only an hours drive north and west. Nowt here.
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
It was a milk tanker my dad used to drive 40 years ago. My brother and I used to ride in it with him. I got the chance to buy it a few years ago and get myself something to waste money on, swear at profusely and lose the skin off my knuckles on too.
She does make me smile though.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Very rarely will the seeds die from slot drying out with baker boot drill (Duncan/aitchison) as the seed lies at the bottom of a slot with moisture coming up from below. Common problem with Moore as the seed tends to sit on the sidewalls of the slit which then dies when the slit dries and opens up.
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
That’s happening with the slots from my MF drill. The dry has kind of peeled them open and now the strong wind can get in.
I was really pleased with it a week ago but there’s definitely less seedlings there now.
I was really pleased with it a week ago but there’s definitely less seedlings there now.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Frit Fly ?
Was dry where we drilled yesterday so I put the back rake down hard for him to put more soil on the seed
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
The baker boot as mentioned creates a mini seed bed in each drill and less problems with hair pinning of dead grass.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Any slugs about or leatherjackets Peter?
Have a dig with spade see if any about.
Good way to see for slugs is chuck a bag or a slate on floor Or even a upturned sheep trough see if the barstewards are there.
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Can’t find anything.
This is just a small paddock at home. At the land away it looks a bit better. We put slug pellets on the bit that was sprayed off so that should help.
This is just a small paddock at home. At the land away it looks a bit better. We put slug pellets on the bit that was sprayed off so that should help.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Be surprised if its lack of moisture, we had seeds survive the 6 week may drought and it was hot [emoji91] then
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Were they direct drilled?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
it will do for them if it was damp enough to germinate before 30 degrees + and/or a dry breeze.
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
That’s what I’m fearing has happened
- Location
- Ceredigion
No but it was Autumn Ploughed and soil was as dry as Pepper when sown , fields this morning
What do you think the yellow tips are ,
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
To be fair to your drill operator, if it was the dry that done it, the same would have happened if it had been sprayed off, cultivated and drilled conventionally, although that might have lost enough moisture to prevent it from chitting in the first place.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire