yoderjac
5 year old buck +
Has anyone tried this with a tiller?
I wonder if this has a the same or different effect compared to what I do. Because my clay can crust, I've been running my tiller (with PTO power) but raising it so high it only touches the top inch or less of the soil. This terminates my cover crop including PTT which can be difficult to terminate. I typically do this early before the WR is old enough to crimp properly. It leaves the mulch layer and I usually wait quite a while to plant. By then any crimson clover and WR has bounced back so I have to spray with gly at planting time. This also controls any weeds getting started.
If I were to simply wait until the WR was mature enough to crimp and did the same thing and planted the same day, I wonder if I could skip the gly and get the same results.
I may also try doing a field next spring with the PTO off as shown in the video now that I'm beginning to build OM. It would be interesting to compare the results.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Jack
I wonder if this has a the same or different effect compared to what I do. Because my clay can crust, I've been running my tiller (with PTO power) but raising it so high it only touches the top inch or less of the soil. This terminates my cover crop including PTT which can be difficult to terminate. I typically do this early before the WR is old enough to crimp properly. It leaves the mulch layer and I usually wait quite a while to plant. By then any crimson clover and WR has bounced back so I have to spray with gly at planting time. This also controls any weeds getting started.
If I were to simply wait until the WR was mature enough to crimp and did the same thing and planted the same day, I wonder if I could skip the gly and get the same results.
I may also try doing a field next spring with the PTO off as shown in the video now that I'm beginning to build OM. It would be interesting to compare the results.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Jack