Recent content by farmlegend

Most of my 15a of plots is clayish loam. Some silt loam. Biggest project is 9a of mostly sandy loam that was highly degraded and compacted as a result of max-tillage rowcropping; I’m in year four of the reclamation. My tractor is a JD 990, 41hp, 4WD with loaded R1 tires. Hopefully it can...

Depends on circumstance and what sort of vegetation you’re dealing with. With the frequency of these August-September-October dry spells in recent years, I’m getting a bad attitude toward the investment in these fall planted plots. This time I’m not going to bother with another seed dump...

Tend to agree. Even with a good chunk of mowed residue, I’m thinking a good two rain events within 10 days of planting, minimum, maybe more if it’s hot and sunny the rest of the time. This is shaping up as two consecutive years of miserable throw-and-mow August-Septembers in my neighborhood...

FWIW where I live, TWC is no better than the others.

Whenever I see some know-it-all comment "be sure to plant your seed just ahead of a good rain" I know the author is a know-nothing blowhard. When I completed 9 acres of throw & mow on Sunday, our forecast called for 70% likelihood of rain on Tuesday. Within hours, they adjusted it down to 5%...

Thank you CnC and all others that have participated in this wonderful thread. Completed 9a of “throw and mow” Sunday afternoon. Cereal rye, a small bit of leftover wheat and oats, some chicory, plantain, YBSC, balansa, crimson clover, and a bunch of leftover oddball seeds to clear out the barn...

The dude I bought it from, whom used to rebuild cultipackers, put that on there as a surprise. It has been a username of mine on various outdoor forums since the year 2000.

Absolutely noticeable with summertime clover. Go through a dry spell and the deer are eating somewhere else, and right after a good gullywasher and they’re all over the clover once again.

Developing new method for seeding deeper into thistle patches; I use my barrel spreader to cast seed 8-10 feet into the edge of the thistle patch, and my buddy follows up behind me with the 4’ packer. Then follow up with the next “row”. Requires two guys to do it efficiently. Good workout for...

Very nice. Here's to some good growing weather. Very arid around me, all the isolated showers have skipped by. I seem to be running August-September dry spells in recent years.

You ID'd some important characteristics. One of the reasons I love alice white is it not only frostseeds wonderfully, but it remains green and desired by deer all winter long at my place, as in serious digging through the snow desired.

Same. Have included berseem a few times and it barely made an appearance. I consider berseem seed to be no more useful than grains of sand in the clover seed mix. In 26 years of growing clover, my favorites are alice white, medium red, and alsike. Giving "incompletes" to balansa and YBSC...

I didn't care for that buckwheat roll stuff. The video I saw on it suggested that buckwheat can grow practically everywhere. It doesn't. On my greasy, compacted dirt, buckwheat (I've planted it many times) grows well approximately one year out of three; it doesn't handle wet dirt very well...

Mowing a 1.3a clover plot presently. Mowed around three canada thistle “thickets”. This stuff isnt as tall as what I was working with yesterday. Worth a thow and roll? Have everything handy to do it. Or leave it for next year?

Enthused at this new discovery. Thank you SD! Q. How do you spread seed over seven foot tall thistle? I tried it two ways and neither was satisfactory for the amount of effort applied. May be a good application for drones.😎