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- Galway Ireland
I’ve bought a 6m grass harrow with apv air seeder and I’m wondering what is best method for stitching in grass,clover,rape etc?? Should I burn off or will bare pasture do? Does it need to be rolled asap?
Trying to go for an option with out discing and power harrowing as I’ve few customers that want to freshen up stoney ground cheaplyIdeally burn off and run something over like a PH or set of discs to get good tilth. If not and you can get seed very cheap then bared off to nothing which would be very hard to do now, far easier to do early March when grass is slower growing so the seed can take hold and not be smothered by the old grass
Yes to the rolling , but hard to comment on the other , every field as to be judged as it is , you will only learn from experience , but u can't overseed into rapidly growing grass and forget rape unless your u burn off , when I sow with a grass harrow I give it a few passes first to find some soil , with the tines set agressive,I’ve bought a 6m grass harrow with apv air seeder and I’m wondering what is best method for stitching in grass,clover,rape etc?? Should I burn off or will bare pasture do? Does it need to be rolled asap?
To be honest I've had 100 % success burning off and seeding on my own farm , seed around 100 acres year , not had a lot of success overseeding,Trying to go for an option with out discing and power harrowing as I’ve few customers that want to freshen up stoney ground cheaply
Burn off 3-4 passes of grass harrow and seed??To be honest I've had 100 % success burning off and seeding on my own farm , seed around 100 acres year , not had a lot of success overseeding,
I’d do 1 light pass with power Harrow regardless of how stoney, I mean PH 2” and fastBurn off 3-4 passes of grass harrow and seed??
I’d do 1 light pass with power Harrow regardless of how stoney, I mean PH 2” and fast
Hard to say without seeing it , but needs to be bare from grass / vegetation before you do anything , which ain't as easy as it sounds as you need grass to take up the spray , spraying before mowing is best way, also be careful if you with rotavator or power Harrow , Yiu will have a lot of loose turf , the tine harrow could drag that and drag the seed with itBurn off 3-4 passes of grass harrow and seed??
I’m trying to avoid power harrowing or discing completely for some of my customers and go for cost effective way to replenish there pastures. Burn off,mow,grass harrow and seed seems to be what I need?Hard to say without seeing it , but needs to be bare from grass / vegetation before you do anything , which ain't as easy as it sounds as you need grass to take up the spray , spraying before mowing is best way, also be careful if you with rotavator or power Harrow , Yiu will have a lot of loose turf , the tine harrow could drag that and drag the seed with it
Weather rules everything , nothing will work if it's to dry , but I would not think mosture is much if a problem where you are , if your burning off it also helps to apply some lime to the surface even if it's just a small amount and as others have said , push the seed rate up , at least with a grass harrow you won't fall into the sin of seeding to deepI’m trying to avoid power harrowing or discing completely for some of my customers and go for cost effective way to replenish there pastures. Burn off,mow,grass harrow and seed seems to be what I need?
Field that had just been left, full of dock and ragwort. Landlord won't allow cultivation so
Flailed off oct 2019
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Power harrowing (very shallow) after first cut (of shite hay) 2020. Broadcast seed (with fert spinner) and rolled. Muck on after.
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July 2021 second cut and the seeds are away well
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Looking very well at the moment, with hardly any fert but I haven't got a current picture