Is it too late to sow stubble turnips?

[Selectamatic]

Hello,

Usually by this time they have been in the ground for about a month, but time has got away from me this year!

I usually sow some stubble turnips, rape, kale. Lambs graze them over winter.

If it is too late, could I sow anything else there instead...?

 

[4course]

Hello,

Usually by this time they have been in the ground for about a month, but time has got away from me this year!

I usually sow some stubble turnips, rape, kale. Lambs graze them over winter.

If it is too late, could I sow anything else there instead...?

if its any help we sew some forage rape and mustard middle and end of august hardly any sign of it until monday after some decent rain. Now all over the field and romping away as are the new grass leys which I feared had failed in parts

 

[som farmer]

we have sown hybrid forage rape up to end sept, gets going, but then stops growth, and then in march starts again, really trying to put up a seed head, but does give some welcome green feed late winter/early spring. And our reseeds are going great guns as well.

 

[Spud]

How soon do you want to start grazing them? I'd say its getting late enough, but as @4course , we have cover crops that have been in the ground 2-3 weeks that are very slow out the blocks to say the least. I'd sow the best field and call it done.
Heres mine a week ago, sown last few days of August iirc

 

[Brisel]

@Kevtherev @Great In Grass

I'd say it's too late for turnips but Tyfon or forage rape would be worth considering. You have lost the best of the summer growing season so keep it cheap and don't expect big bulky crops in 6 weeks.

Westerwolds?

 

[som farmer]

How soon do you want to start grazing them? I'd say its getting late enough, but as @4course , we have cover crops that have been in the ground 2-3 weeks that are very slow out the blocks to say the least. I'd sow the best field and call it done.
Heres mine a week ago, sown last few days of August iirc

our forage rape, sown 18 august, is now 12 inches, and going great guns, the game cover, sown 2 sept, is only 2/3 inches, but going well. Just goes to show, the earlier the better !

 

[shakerator]

Too late now for winter grazing surely

 

[Chae1]

our forage rape, sown 18 august, is now 12 inches, and going great guns, the game cover, sown 2 sept, is only 2/3 inches, but going well. Just goes to show, the earlier the better !

I put some in mid August lucky if its 3 inches. Been really slow. 30 acre in different fields/farms. Disappointed. Won't be worth strip grazing just let the cows loose on it.

 

[Hilly]

I put some stubble turnips in end August don’t think they going to come to much to be honest, three weeks after the field was ploughed due to bloody rain if I had got em in when I wanted would have been a lot better .

 

[Boydvalley]

Too late. You don’t get enough leaf to make enough use of the short days.

 

[DRC]

Worst looking stubble turnips we’ve had here.
Forget sowing them now

 

[HarryB97]

Probably be better off with a ryegrass or westerwolds, could chuck a few turnips etc in as an experiment then ull no in the future if it's worth drilling them late. Depending what crop the field was in previosuly you could fertilise the volunteers as well then when they're grazed off tip fodder beet on the ground?

 

[Bogweevil]

Forage rye? I would say mid_September is cut off but mild winter, western region...

 

[4course]

@Kevtherev @Great In Grass

I'd say it's too late for turnips but Tyfon or forage rape would be worth considering. You have lost the best of the summer growing season so keep it cheap and don't expect big bulky crops in 6 weeks.

Westerwolds?

westerwolds are good for grass tonnage but a bugger to kill in a following arable crop ive found, so dont let them seed

 

[som farmer]

with forage rape we use redstart, was talked into trying spitfire, redstart here is a damn site better than spitfire, its more aggressive, and once it's got its roots down, grows like hell, spitfire, really not impressed

 

[neilo]

Hello,

Usually by this time they have been in the ground for about a month, but time has got away from me this year!

I usually sow some stubble turnips, rape, kale. Lambs graze them over winter.

If it is too late, could I sow anything else there instead...?

It rather depends on what type of winter we get. I DD’ed some stubble turnips after late Spring Barley last year, in the first week of October. I would rather something was growing in that soil, rather than leaving it as bare stubble all winter, and figured an early Spring bite would be handy. With the winter we had, there was a big crop there by early March, to the extent that I had to take the hoggets off in April and top the remainder.
If it had been a cold, wet winter, the result would have been rather different.

 

[sherg]

I chucked some on with a bit of fert the other day i doubt it'll come to much but it would just be handy to have something there by the end of march next year, to be honest the stuff sown 6 weeks ago is looking pretty ordinary this year

 

[DRC]

I chucked some on with a bit of fert the other day i doubt it'll come to much but it would just be handy to have something there by the end of march next year, to be honest the stuff sown 6 weeks ago is looking pretty ordinary this year

Can the seed loose vigour if over yeared?
Just wondering if we had our seed from the same place .

 

[Brisel]

Most oilseed seeds are over yeared. The harvest of the seed is too close to the sowing date to get it tested and certified in time.

Having seen how persistent oilseed rape seed is in the soil, I doubt it loses much vigour if kept well in a shed.

 

[sherg]

Can the seed loose vigour if over yeared?
Just wondering if we had our seed from the same place .

Hadnt really thought about that, my brother had his from the same place and his isnt romping away either