http://www.kws-uk.com/aw/KWS/united-kingdom/Products-TopMenu/Maize/~fnbz/UK-Soil-Temp/
visit this link and put in your postcode. Do it from the armchair !!
visit this link and put in your postcode. Do it from the armchair !!
Maize 2016
- Thread starter jondear
- Start date
- Location
- Wiltshire
David Bright had a truck full of thermometers. Buy a bag of seed and you will get one. My other was from the garden centre about £10 I think.
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For what he charges for game cover seed I'd want a "happy ending" too...
lidle electronic one, £13 ishstubbles still to spray off.....been poor spray days.(few docks -else i would save a cost and time ) - but still seems far too cold here - what/where is the best value (cheap) soil temperature probe ?? - as a matter of interest.
Hmm, just checked garden, surface 18c 2 inches down its 15c
inside wall here 17.5 so lawn is warmer than house
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buffalo_soldier
Member
- Location
- cumbria
Yep, 10 is the target
- Location
- Cornwall.
Unless there is still a chance of night frost once the soil temperature has stabilised at 8dC crack on.
Someone else is growing it for us this year (sorry @Great In Grass )
Bloody good job too this spring is awful
Bloody good job too this spring is awful
- Location
- Cornwall.
If you've got a good deal I don't blame you.Someone else is growing it for us this year (sorry @Great In Grass )
Bloody good job too this spring is awful
It's on much better ground than our place. Should be a good deal if it yields okIf you've got a good deal I don't blame you.
Wilberforce
Member
- Location
- North Shropshire
Miles away here in North Shropshire. Was drying nicely until Easter, since then getting steadily wetter. Ground to wet travel on, cold and damp and getting worse. 10 days to a fortnight away at best!
Too wet to even get the muck on yet, as @Wilberforce says, its now wetter than its been all winter( and that's saying something). First priority will be getting a fungicide and some fertiliser on wheat and barley. The maize can wait until the second week of may, as I'm fed up of early drilling, only to see it struggle to get going.
Just over 8 degrees soil temp. so not warming up . still not spread or ploughed nor in any particular hurry either.......with frost (white) for the last 2 nights
- Location
- Norfolk
6.6 deg according to link above. My first ever go at maize. Two weeks away I guess. All mucked chisel ploughed, ploughed pressed and ready to pull down tho.
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- Location
- Wiltshire
My own thermometer says 6 degrees. One chap who grows some for me has a field at 8. These cold days and nights I'm in no hurry. Still 70 ac to plough and 20 of that needs the grass off first.
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a neighbour is drilling today underplastic but the wind chill is considerable here today as well
holywell farmer
Member
- Location
- holywell, north wales
going be challenge to plant maize in north wales its chucking it down today !
holywell farmer
Member
- Location
- holywell, north wales
weather will pick up within a week,