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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Chiles" data-source="post: 7400335" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Define consistent. Obviously Lupin yield can vary with the weather, just the same as every other agricultural crop. I’ve grown them for years and would like to think we’ve been successful, and to be completely fair the soil type I grow them on would be described as far from ideal as it’s heavy. They definitely won’t grow in very alkaline soils. On the plus side if you can get them in decent conditions and the weather plays ball for a decent pre em to work then there’s not much to do with them once they’ve established until harvest. Key to establishment is waiting until soil temperature is high enough so the emerge quickly and preserving the moisture in the seedbed. It pays to keep an eye on them whilst emerging and keep on top of any slug and pigeon pressure, the latter until the plants have true ( palmate) leaves. If you’re not successful with your pre em there are still some reasonable herbicides you can use. They don’t normally need a fungicide. Harvest in a normal year is third week in August for blue and second week in September for whites. The whites will out yield blues but the blues pip whites if harvest date is important to you, bear also in mind that harvest date might be important now we can’t use Reglone. I’ve had blues that I reckon I could have got away without desiccating but I wouldn’t want to guarantee it. There are alternatives to Reglone that can be used. Once dry harvesting is easy, they don’t shatter like peas or beans, I’ve never known them go flat and the stalks razor up to dust. Worth growing if only for the following crop of wheat, they do wonders for soil structure, fix N and exude citrates from their roots to make P available to the following crop.</p><p>They’re not easy to market unless you’re growing them for seed. If you want to feed your own, or neighbours, animals they’re probably worth twice ( in feed value not financial ) as peas or beans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Chiles, post: 7400335, member: 1233"] Define consistent. Obviously Lupin yield can vary with the weather, just the same as every other agricultural crop. I’ve grown them for years and would like to think we’ve been successful, and to be completely fair the soil type I grow them on would be described as far from ideal as it’s heavy. They definitely won’t grow in very alkaline soils. On the plus side if you can get them in decent conditions and the weather plays ball for a decent pre em to work then there’s not much to do with them once they’ve established until harvest. Key to establishment is waiting until soil temperature is high enough so the emerge quickly and preserving the moisture in the seedbed. It pays to keep an eye on them whilst emerging and keep on top of any slug and pigeon pressure, the latter until the plants have true ( palmate) leaves. If you’re not successful with your pre em there are still some reasonable herbicides you can use. They don’t normally need a fungicide. Harvest in a normal year is third week in August for blue and second week in September for whites. The whites will out yield blues but the blues pip whites if harvest date is important to you, bear also in mind that harvest date might be important now we can’t use Reglone. I’ve had blues that I reckon I could have got away without desiccating but I wouldn’t want to guarantee it. There are alternatives to Reglone that can be used. Once dry harvesting is easy, they don’t shatter like peas or beans, I’ve never known them go flat and the stalks razor up to dust. Worth growing if only for the following crop of wheat, they do wonders for soil structure, fix N and exude citrates from their roots to make P available to the following crop. They’re not easy to market unless you’re growing them for seed. If you want to feed your own, or neighbours, animals they’re probably worth twice ( in feed value not financial ) as peas or beans. [/QUOTE]
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