Help on some land matters...

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Suffolk
DON'T RUSH OUT WITH THE SPRAY! Top, seed if you need to but play the waiting game. Glyphosate is a farmers tool, you really only need to ues this once in a decade and only then if you are desparate! The rest of the time you can 'do' five acres with a hand tool. Way, way more satisfying and way, way more ethical.
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kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ

Nice place (y)
My advice for what it's worth.
1. Perimeter fence. make sure its a good one, aim to keep the most persistent of livestock OUT, especially the two legged variety.
2. Remove all trace of horses.
3. Landscape the grounds as you see fit, I recommend more trees and bushes, fruit trees would be great.
4. Level the rest and sow a lawn type grass that you could manage with a tractor lawn mower or if you have a RangeRover or similar buy an old set of gang mowers you can tow behind it and cut the grass in comfort when you've finished work (y)
5. Do not ruin it by having sheep on the place, especially someone else's. All they will do is get where you don't want them and s**t every where. So every time you walk round the place you'll be covered in the stuff.
Good luck.
 

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer
That sounds good to me - we'll look to do something along those lines - I did also fancy some vines as we have an area of about half an acre on a gentle, south-facing slope - just be something nice to do in my spare time.
I love a Pershore Egg Plumb, lovely variety, I have planted Walnut tree here (but maybe it will be the following generations who will be harvesting Walnuts!)
 

TheTallGuy

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Location
Cambridgeshire
I love a Pershore Egg Plumb, lovely variety, I have planted Walnut tree here (but maybe it will be the following generations who will be harvesting Walnuts!)
I like Purple Pershore myself, or Czar direct from the tree on a warm sunny afternoon - full of warm sweet juice & a soft yielding flesh. Not so keen on being chased by the wasps though! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 

sim2kuk

Member
I may be one of your nearby locals - Crowborough. Happy to come have a look (being a nosy type...) and maybe put forward some ideas. PM me if that could be of use to you, but only if you're within about a 10 mile radius.

Cheers Dudders, I'll give you a PM when I'm in.
 

Hjcarter

Member
Bang in a few rows of fruit trees - apples, plums & pears. You can't beat your own fruit fresh off the tree, especially plums at the peak of ripeness. I always recommend older varieties for best flavour rather than modern ones that have been developed for the supermarkets to look good on the shelves for a week or more.

Cherries are good too, but keeping the birds & blackfly off can be an up hill battle.
That sounds like a plan.

Keep the ménage and three acres to rent out to horsy folks for £100 a week then have an orchard on the other 2 acres. Get a quad with a tow along flail for the orchard grass, do up a £50 trailer off eBay and you're sorted!
 
Location
Suffolk
Where would I find someone to do a Direct Drill?
From an older thread. https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/a-blast-from-the-past-17-the-old-seed-fiddle.120524/

I have bought these as presents for friends and have a GT version for my own use. Way better and focussed than the hassle of getting someone in to mess around with an f-off piece of large machinery on a small plot:(particularly in April which is probably the best time to be seeding but still not good for load bearing. Perhaps I'm lucky to have access to a single rigid harrow to tow behind my little Honda quad but the fiddle and the harrow weighted with a sleeper ratchet strapped on top to disturb the ground before and after seeding has done me proud. Be very aware of seed with clover in.
A still day is best mind!;)
Clover may not be suitable and dominate freshly over seeded grass. Here on our heavy clay it became a major problem but there was a plus in removing it in that it provided a fantastic burst of nitrogen and the less dominant older species of grasses then thrived.
Look at older species mix of grass and certainly no rye.
I'll have to look out my Mr Sutton's display case showing all the old grasses tied in little bundles which I took care to investigate when transforming my place from over cropped and very tired monoculture arable.
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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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