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PSQ

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Elgar with buckwheat and berseem clover all at 5kgs. Direct drilled 9th August. No insecticides Apart from a dose of slug pellets.
What did you use in the way of autumn Pre-em / early post-em herbicides (if any) to avoid killing off the buckwheat and berseem clover?
 

ajd132

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Suffolk
What did you use in the way of autumn Pre-em / early post-em herbicides (if any) to avoid killing off the buckwheat and berseem clover?
All it had was a graminicde for vols followed by Astro kerb in November. Buckwheat was dead by then but it killed the clover. We think the clover released about 20kgs of N to the crop.
 

Acke

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Sweden Enköping
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DD in SB stubbel with a Avatar !
 

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Spring rape coming along ok in North Warwickshire. Some just germinated some coming into flower could be interesting.
 

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thorpe

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our best piece of rape is next to the yard i dont know if its historic muck but it does look good on the year, guess it might do a ton the rest well it looks crap that might do 1.5 ton! who knows with rape?
 

teslacoils

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Lincolnshire
Elgar with buckwheat and berseem clover all at 5kgs. Direct drilled 9th August. No insecticides Apart from a dose of slug pellets.

Any view on the buckwheat / clover aiding in the establishment then? Did they seperate in the hopper or did you apply the non-osr seperatly? Will you use the same mix this August?
 

ajd132

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Suffolk
Any view on the buckwheat / clover aiding in the establishment then? Did they seperate in the hopper or did you apply the non-osr seperatly? Will you use the same mix this August?
I don’t think they aided establishment, drilled it early into moisture and it grew (I lost some to slugs but that was my fault not getting pellets on quick enough).
I got it pre mixed by my seed supplier will do the same this year. I have a sealed hopper so didn’t seperate.
 

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