Tillage Radish/Vetch mix??

[Conflats]

Hi guys

Just looking for some information / practical experiences of a tillage radish/ vetch mix. More specifically sowing rate, % of each in the mix etc

Its for a field trail as part of following crop response to residue treatment and various soil health parameters

Thanks in Advance
Conor

 

[Louis Mc]

This sounds interesting. Great to see some trial work on this. We have one year of data 6 weeks away from harvest as we speak. No visual difference to be seen in a crop of spring oats between tillage raddish/vetch/pea and a oil raddish/leafy turnip/berseem clover as a preceding cover crop (drilling straight into with claydon)
Please don't establish the next crop by ploughing or if so only part it as I think you will lose a lot of the benefits of the cover crop.
@phil on here has plenty of experience with tillage raddish and vetch

 

[JNG]

Just up the road from you @Conflats. Have experience with oilseed radish and vetch mixed with other things. Is this an official trial or just something you doing at home?

 

[Conflats]

Guys thanks for response, it's a trial I am conducting as part of my PhD project, so it's going to be tried over 3 years
I was interested in the tillage radish for the big bulbous root on it and the vetch to fix n and see response in following crop.

All work I found over here(very small amount) was done on mustard straights