Your per lb price seems reasonable. I always overseeded when I did throw and mow as well. Just the nature of the beast. Is this all going into one 1-acre plot? Don't know anything about vivant. 10 lbs of brassica seems a little high but I'm pretty sure you're in sand country so might not get the best germ, especially with this damn drought we're dealing with.Bought my summer seeds today. Seemed expensive, $93 for an acre. Of course I go heavy as I throw and mow and the thatch will be minimal as the plot is pretty dead due to the drought. Chances of rain 4 of the next 5 days. Soaked the seeds for 6 hours, drained them using landscape fabric, broadcast by hand, then mowed.
The last pic is smoke from fire less than 10 miles from us. Local departments and DNR have been working on it for 3 hours, with 8 houses gone so far. Smoke was blowing directly over us but wind has shifted more to the north now.
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A Microfarm
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Troubles Trees
5 year old buck +
Interesting that you pre-soak the seed, I have read about that somewhere before but never tried it to improve germination rates.
Do you incorporate any sort of inoculates or do you just soak in water?
Do you incorporate any sort of inoculates or do you just soak in water?
Right, definitely not expecting full germination. My seed shop didn't have purple top turnips, just the vivant. It's supposed to have more leaf mass and less bulb growth. A cross between turnip and rape I believe.
I do it with large seeds for the garden, like beans and corn, so thought I'd try it here. I just used water. The clover had innoculant on it, so it made kind of a sludge. Not so easy to spread it as the others
Ok, so I cheated. I spliced a couple of old garden hoses together, replaced an end on another one, and bought a 100' hose. That gave me enough to reach in front of my stand with a tripod sprinkler. So now I've got a 40 x 40 yard spot right in my kill zone that's germinated really well.
That does mean the grass that I didn't spray because it was dead is springing back to life. I think I'll hit it with clethodim tomorrow.
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That does mean the grass that I didn't spray because it was dead is springing back to life. I think I'll hit it with clethodim tomorrow.
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PatinPA
5 year old buck +
I buried one in a compost pile one year. I put half a barrel over it. Mostly to keep something from dragging it off but it also protected it from the sun.Probably should have taken it out of the sun a little earlier so it wasn't bleached so much. But still think it turned out okay.
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Harvested comfrey today. These were root crowns planted this spring when I divided existing mature plants. I chop them off right above ground level. Filled up my 15 gallon drum to make some liquid fertilizer. After filling it with water, and securing the lid, it'll be ready for use in 4 months. I'll either pour about 12 oz around the base of an apple tree when watering, or put 12 oz in a 2 gallon sprayer filled with water and use it as a foliar spray on my vegetables.
The comfrey I had left was added to existing mulch around small apple trees. This particular tree appeared to be dead about a month ago, but came back after giving it about 10 gallons of water a couple of times, along with the liquid fertilizer.
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The comfrey I had left was added to existing mulch around small apple trees. This particular tree appeared to be dead about a month ago, but came back after giving it about 10 gallons of water a couple of times, along with the liquid fertilizer.
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My fall plot is looking pretty good. It doesn't get much use right now as the deer are across the road in a soybean field every night. But I've spotted a couple does out there with their fawns a couple mornings. Some buckwheat has been nipped off.
We had thunderstorms twice this past week, dropping just under an inch each time. Winds were enough to drop a few acorns.
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We had thunderstorms twice this past week, dropping just under an inch each time. Winds were enough to drop a few acorns.
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Sprayed a foliar on my fruit trees and vegetables on Sunday. It contains 3 different products from Advancing Eco Agriculture, which includes calcium, manganese, molybdenum, magnesium, sulfur, boron, and cobalt. Added in some of my own comfrey tea which will provide the NPK along with more micros.
We got 1.6 inches of rain Monday, so the sprinklers will get a couple days of rest
Here are pics of my bush pumpkin bed and watermelon bed. They were supposed to be a bush variety too, but I bought the wrong ones. I had to cut all the watermelon vines that were sprawling outside the bed. Everything is a nice deep green. The wife is canning pickles and tomatoes almost every day, and the peppers are just starting to ripen.
I went to check on my Pristine apple tree as it looked to be the first one ripe. It had a large, perfect apple on it yesterday that was about half yellow. Today it was gone. Those branches just above the 5' cage are not safe! I did pick the first of the Pipestone plums.
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We got 1.6 inches of rain Monday, so the sprinklers will get a couple days of rest
Here are pics of my bush pumpkin bed and watermelon bed. They were supposed to be a bush variety too, but I bought the wrong ones. I had to cut all the watermelon vines that were sprawling outside the bed. Everything is a nice deep green. The wife is canning pickles and tomatoes almost every day, and the peppers are just starting to ripen.
I went to check on my Pristine apple tree as it looked to be the first one ripe. It had a large, perfect apple on it yesterday that was about half yellow. Today it was gone. Those branches just above the 5' cage are not safe! I did pick the first of the Pipestone plums.
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