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<blockquote data-quote="8 Ace" data-source="post: 7780237" data-attributes="member: 44048"><p>The autumn nitrogen debate is one that goes on and on but my choice is to not put autumn nitrogen on despite agronomic advice to the contrary. There are small plants in the ground and we want them to get strong enough for the winter but we do not want frothy growth. When we have applied nitrogen in the past at this time of the year (or usually earlier) we have ended up with a greener, larger but more frost sensitive crop and it has ultimately been counter productive in my opinion. Again, I am aware that is not mainstream practice how to grow osr. I suspect though with the spiralling cost of nitrogen fewer crops will get any autumn N. </p><p>Just a word on pigeons. 30 years ago we seemed to attract huge flocks of ravenous pigeons onto varieties like Jet Neuf and Bienveue. In the last 15 years, as we have grown mainly hybrids, often the DK varieties pigeon damage has become much less of an issue. We don`t seem to see the huge flocks of wood pigeons any more that were like locusts and I believe the modern hybrids are less palatable. Having said that, slug patrol eventually becomes pigeon patrol and I don`t want temp fate but pigeon damge seems to be much less serious when growing osr than it once was</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="8 Ace, post: 7780237, member: 44048"] The autumn nitrogen debate is one that goes on and on but my choice is to not put autumn nitrogen on despite agronomic advice to the contrary. There are small plants in the ground and we want them to get strong enough for the winter but we do not want frothy growth. When we have applied nitrogen in the past at this time of the year (or usually earlier) we have ended up with a greener, larger but more frost sensitive crop and it has ultimately been counter productive in my opinion. Again, I am aware that is not mainstream practice how to grow osr. I suspect though with the spiralling cost of nitrogen fewer crops will get any autumn N. Just a word on pigeons. 30 years ago we seemed to attract huge flocks of ravenous pigeons onto varieties like Jet Neuf and Bienveue. In the last 15 years, as we have grown mainly hybrids, often the DK varieties pigeon damage has become much less of an issue. We don`t seem to see the huge flocks of wood pigeons any more that were like locusts and I believe the modern hybrids are less palatable. Having said that, slug patrol eventually becomes pigeon patrol and I don`t want temp fate but pigeon damge seems to be much less serious when growing osr than it once was [/QUOTE]
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