Recent content by Ben Glantz

I would think you could do it as soon as the leaves start to turn down and the ground starts to get some sunlight. Are you corn rows spaced pretty close? I have seen picutres of corn fields that had been broadcasted with winter rye and it had a nice green carpet on the ground.

I have about a 1/4 acre clover plot that is aging. It has weeds popping up around the edges and working their way in. This plot is right next to the farmers field and he has decided to go organic. I have broadcast some rye in the plot to add some extra food and also still help building the soil...

I like to add some WR to my clover to help build the soil and also give the deer a little more to eat in the fall and winter. The WR will grow up in the spring and head out in summer. You can mow it down it will naturally fall over in August. The turkeys and birds eat a lot of the seed heads and...

I am in south central Wisconsin, Columbia county. It seems my clover never does much when I plant it in the fall but goes like gang busters in the following spring and summer. I am working with about 3 acres, a vast majority of that is sandy soil, alomost to the point of a sand box in places. I...

I would plant it and roll it/ run it over with your ATV if you ground is uneven and you don't have a lot of thatch on the ground. I picked up a couple extra bags of WR to broadcast next week.

Is it real viney? It looks similar to the weeds in my clover plot. I was thinking my weeds were morning glory or something similar. I hit the plot with Butryac in late April. It killed about half of the weeds growing. However the half it didn't kill made them take off like gang busters. I ended...

I have found that if nots real shaded, my clover does well on the borders. Maybe you could try putting clover in that 8-10 feet that borders the trees?

Yep, my winter rye is being consumed by turkeys and sand hills as fast as I put it down. I am now going to wait to bow opener weekend to put down the last couple bags of rye(5 days of rain forecasted starting Sunday). I planted 2 plots of brassicas in the middle of July and they are doing very...

I use a leaf blower most of the time. It seems after the snow melts and a few good dry days, I can get enough leaves up to see the dirt again. I always try to get the leaves off in late February or mid March. Even if the leaves are a bit wet, the leaf blower gets them up and moves them around...

I have 2 plots in the woods. I go into each plot in late Feb or early march(after the snow has melted) and use my leaf blower and rake to remove the leaves. Most years I will also frost seed at that time because we will get freezing nights with thawing days. I had to redo a plot this year due to...

I am spreading my 3rd layer of oats and rye this coming weekend into my brassica plots, clover plots and my LC mix plots. Depending on how things are growing, I am intending to spread 150lbs of WR and 50lbs of oats. These total about 3 acres. So far I've put down approx. 250lbs of WR, 100lbs of...

I did a throw and roll with sun flowers, millet sorghum last year. The deer left them along and they did pretty good. Then the tweetie birds and turkeys found the plot. The heads were cleared of any seed in about 2 weeks. This year I had left over sun flower seed that I threw into a july...

It sounds like each time you disk you are getting into the seed bank and bringing up more seeds. Maybe try mowing it, then spraying, waiting a month, spray again and then do a throw and roll? You should have good thatch with the all of the dead plant matter and if you do the trow and roll, you...

That is awesome, thank you for the step by step/ week by week photos!

Here is a pic of the wooded plot where I spread the seed, mowed, sprayed and then rolled. The plot had been a clover plot that was taken over by morning glory, ferns and some grasses. I planted the plot on 8/12 and this picture is from 8/19. You can see the weeds are dead/dying and you can see...