spreading beans

[Neddy flanders]

has anyone ever spread beans on top of overwintered ploughing in the spring and then harrowed them in with say a light tractor and KKK?
not sure ill get a drill over the field if I powerharrow or tine it first. very soft in bottom of furrow

 

[teslacoils]

Yup.

Up rates a bit Vs drilled. Levelled it with power Harrow if dry, or couple of times with a KKK. Then charge some pigeon shooters a tenner a day for the easy targets.

 

[farmerm]

Its the 10th March... don't think we have ever managed to drill beans before April here... have a little patience....

 

[teslacoils]

Yes. Was 2009 or 2010. February was full of drying easterlies with frost. Dragged and drilled ploughing valentine's weekend. Then dry all summer. Brown rust in alchemy wheat. Beans cut dry mid August. Nile variety.

 

[yellow belly]

Rooks will murder them
drilled in mid april 2013 yielded well heavy land

 

[rob h]

Best crop we grew.disk and press stubble spin on then disk press and roll did 2 t .also done it with express st.one pass spin on then a second pass did ok

 

[Ivorbiggun]

A few years ago we drilled some early March, it then turned wet and we didn’t get to drill the rest till early April.
Harvested the first week in September with no yield difference in the drilling dates.

 

[Oat]

I have done it before, either via fert spreader or a drill dropping the seed on the surface, and then KKK tined in. It worked well and I got a good crop for low cost