Recent content by ncnat

1/4 - 1/2 inch

I have been planting a mix of WW, oats, radish, turnips, rape and clovers together in one pass with a seed drill in lightly worked ground for 3 years and have never had a bad stand of the turnips, rape and radish. I'm in the piedmont of NC.

I have 80 acres with 10 permanent stands (2 tripods, 3 ladders, 4 lock-ons and 1 ground blind) and 10 more locations that are cleaned up for portable stands or blinds.

My forage beans normally stay green and growing till frost.

When I was spraying I always used creek water and never had an issue with killing what was sprayed. I mixed at 2% back then.

I wouldn't worry about the clover. I planted late last year and thought the clover didn't make it, I was mowing clover by late April.

One option and one that I've used is to add clover at brassica planting, mow through spring and summer. Mowing is a must to keep the brassicas from bolting. Terminate everything in late summer and start over.

How much rain have you had and is it a wet area? The only time my buckwheat has ever yellowed was when it stayed wet for too long.

We like to play in the dirt.

Sharpen mine couple times a year.

I just ordered 20 pounds of seed from Hancock with free shipping.

I've used Georgia Collards before, don't plan on getting any for yourself. The deer in my area area will destroy Georgia Collards and rape.

I used it last year for screening purposes and it did ok for what I wanted. It did not grow as tall as they said it would but that could have been the 70 days without rain. It stood up most of the hunting season and even after it fell it was still tall enough to screen and provide cover for...

I planted LabLab this year for the first time and the deer browsed it but by no means hammered them. I will keep planting it for the simple fact that we went 70 days without rain and you'd have never known looking at the plot.

They seem to be getting hard to buy new. You may be better off buying an old cultivator and use it for the tines/parts.