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Winter and Spring Bean Establishment
- Thread starter ajd132
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Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
We use Solo coulters on the sprinter and put them in direct. Works very well.
What is a solo coulter like? I know you can get a bean coulter but we have drilled direct with the normal tines last few years usually into land that has just been carriered, works ok. One thing i noticed when harvesting spring beans is that there is a slot left in the ground where the tine has been.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
It is basically a bean coulter. Imagine your Duett coulter but without the wing underneath, and just a hole directly behind the "knife" tine that dropped seed out directly behind. Pretty much what it is. Goes much deeper than the Duett which I find essential when dealing with crows.
Drilled for the first time with my JD750 this year. Almost all no till apart from shakerating a couple of headlands.
Really pleased with them. I would have liked to have got them a bit deeper at the time but on reflection even the 3.5" I got them worked out fine.
Really pleased with them. I would have liked to have got them a bit deeper at the time but on reflection even the 3.5" I got them worked out fine.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
spring beans planted last year using disc drill notill in mid april once the ground was warm enough
I will be doing the same this year
just because the type of tine /coulter you have works does not mean you have to get it into the field when it is too wet of cold
if planting early gives higher weed burden and then a lower yield is the result
imho at least 50 seeds is needed to get the best yield on my heavy late land
I will be doing the same this year
just because the type of tine /coulter you have works does not mean you have to get it into the field when it is too wet of cold
if planting early gives higher weed burden and then a lower yield is the result
imho at least 50 seeds is needed to get the best yield on my heavy late land
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
if the soil is heavy 2 inches is deep enough but a small area could have rook problem if they are not controlled
but on a bigger block of heavy land the rooks may help with slugs
Same as usual. Get rid of any compaction, then make a hole, pop in seed and cover it up. This for me might be straight in with a home-made cultivator and seeder; move the ground with a big drag then drill with the freeflow. Or it might be plough, cultivate, drill. I don't like to spread springs on and harrow them in.
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Last year I put my beans into over wintered subsoiling.
Broadcast them on - power harrow them in! Worked really well.
Will be trying out the Mzuri this year tho - if it ever stops raining!
Broadcast them on - power harrow them in! Worked really well.
Will be trying out the Mzuri this year tho - if it ever stops raining!
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Don't see why not.
Even if I'm too busy with pigs etc. you are more than welcome to fetch it.