What a shame I can't DD this year's rape in

[Badshot]

Anyone care to guess why? And it's not the number of slugs that are around, even though there are a lot of them about this afternoon.

 

[Clive]

Residual herbicide concerns ? Late Atlantis etc ?

(Nice looking wheat btw !)

 

[Badshot]

Bingo

Late Atlantis and Ally Max

 

[JNG]

Bingo

Late Atlantis and Ally Max

How late is too late? Nice looking wheat BTW?

 

[Clive]

Bingo

Late Atlantis and Ally Max

Another of the many reasons behind my spring break rotation plans !

You will probably get away with the ally but I do worry about late Atlantis / Atlantis in general really !

 

[Clive]

Centium scares me as well !

 

[B&B Pig Man]

Anyone care to guess why? And it's not the number of slugs that are around, even though there are a lot of them about this afternoon.

Arion Subfuscus!
Not just a common Deroceras Reticulatum! You even have posh slugs!

 

[Badshot]

How late is too late? Nice looking wheat BTW?

22nd April, and with very little rain since then I think it's too dodgy so I'll be doing it with my usual opico varidisc/tilth and seeder to move some soil.

Wheat is solstice DD'd into bean stubble on what could only be described as poor soil, some of this has zero indices for phosphate. It's the land where I laid my own drains.

 

[Badshot]

Arion Subfuscus!
Not just a common Deroceras Reticulatum! You even have posh slugs!

Would you like some? I can spare a few I'm sure. would the french go for shelled snails?

 

[B&B Pig Man]

Would you like some? I can spare a few I'm sure. would the french go for shelled snails?

Thanks for the offer - but no thanks!
I'll stick to identifying them from pictures instead!

 

[rob1]

That is a cracking crop what did you drill it with?

 

[Badshot]

That is a cracking crop what did you drill it with?

KV tineseeder, don't think I have any pictures of that particular field while drilling though. 150kg/ha seed and no herbs till the Atlantis.

 

[rob1]

I reckon a trial patch away from prying eyes would be worth it to see the affect of the atlantis

 

[Badshot]

I reckon a trial patch away from prying eyes would be worth it to see the affect of the atlantis

Hmm, Maybe.

 

[Clive]

Why not plant a few seeds just a couple of weeks before harvest by hand on a worst case area like headland overlap

If they grow then you could probably get away DD ? If not cultivate ? (Shallow !!)

 

[Badshot]

Why not plant a few seeds just a couple of weeks before harvest by hand on a worst case area like headland overlap
If they grow then you could probably get away DD ? If not cultivate ? (Shallow !!)

Trouble is it tends to grow then die later on just to make you think it's OK. Could try planting some now on a bare patch that got flooded out I guess, the atlantis went on after it dried up.

 

[Badshot]

Doing the earwash on gallant also dd into bean stubble.

 

[green giant]

Lo

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Doing the earwash on gallant also dd into bean stubble.

Looking good BS !!

 

[Badshot]

Lo
Looking good BS !!

, Ta GG

 

[BSH]

I rather naively applied pacifica in the spring and realised too late that this would probably stuff up my subsequent cc plans. Have belatedly changed plans on other areas and changed planned rotation and made a note to self to try to drill earlier in the autumn and use Atlantis et al in the autumn not the spring in future. Not completely sure sure if this is practical in an autumn like last but am once bitten twice shy.