serf
Member
- Location
- warwickshire
How long is this mix meant to last
Stubble Turnips
- Thread starter Derrick Hughes
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
It's coming up to 4 years here
But I would say 3
Don't put more than 6 kg of Tertraploid Grass in it so it don't smother the bottom out
- Location
- Cheshire
Last time I grew turnips at home the sawfly absolutely annihilated them. Good job I’d sown FR in with it as the turnips hardly recovered but the FR was back up and knee high by grazing time. Definitely satisfying spraying the little barstewards
They are absolute killers, flea beetles are just funny by comparison
- Location
- Ceredigion
I've got some Hobson Rape Seed coming
Going to put 2 acres in along side the others
Just hope we get some hard frosts to test them
Going to put 2 acres in along side the others
Just hope we get some hard frosts to test them
It will cope with the frost ok got to -12 here last year but the beast from the east is another matter
- Location
- Ceredigion
4 weeks on Ringo Rape ahead of everything ATM
Firtilzer due to go on this week
Firtilzer due to go on this week
- Location
- Ceredigion
Hobson going in today along side it
Be interesting to see how the both compare
Be interesting to see how the both compare
- Location
- North wales
Did you apply fert after sowing to?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Not put any on yet , was waiting to see how it germinated first and adjust firtilzer according,
I learn that from Tom Brook Farm Australia
He puts firtilzer on according to how the crop is looking when it gets going
3 cwt acre Tripple 16 going on then maybe a top up of nitrogen in a Months time
- Location
- Ceredigion
Nice bit of overseeding
2cd cut today
2cd cut today
- Location
- Ceredigion
Don't know if I've done right but I mowed this yesterday, clover overseed 4 weeks on , it was oveshaded by grass , will have to see
- Location
- Ceredigion
Ignore the weeds but one of these has been sown with Perennial Ryegrass and the other Nitrogen Coated Perennial Ryegrass
No Nitrogen applied in the seedbed
NorthumbrianFarmer
Member
- Location
- northumberland
How many times can you graze it a year without killing it off? Ever tried cutting it and then feeding it to lambs houses inside?
- Location
- Ceredigion
I graze mine all winter with lambs From September on
It gets cut for silage 3 times in the summer here but I have more grass in mine . Won't produce much over the winter though
Chicory grows like mad in the Summer though, you need to keep on Top of it at this time of the year or it will run to head
Don't see why you can't cut and feed
- Location
- somerset
quite like some of it bolting, since l was told it was a way of transferring minerals, from deep down to surface, they get left in the topsoil, as the stem is absorbed into the topsoil.
Docks are deep rooted as well, and hopefully, the same applies to them, giving me some sort of excuse for having them.....................
One big positive about growing the herbs, our dairy cows will eat all the green leaf's of the docks, just leave the stalk standing, if really young, they will graze it right down. Been told as well, fresh dock leaf's are 25% protein.
Now if only the guv would let them be included in GS4 ......................
high plains drifter
Member
What are these little fellas on my crop?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Sawfly larvae. They will strip the field within days so need insecticide, this afternoon
- Location
- Ceredigion
As above Sawflly
Locusts,
As above get them sprayed
Locusts,
As above get them sprayed
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
What happens if he’s organic??