I'm sure there will be some. I'm also hoping 60 days of settling and hoof action will have that duff close enough to the soil that it can germinate and reach down and connect before running out of power.
This is my north plot all mowed up now. It’s a patchwork of saved bur oaks and multiple expansions over the years.
This is the Canada thistle patch I saved. The white pine right behind it is the marker.
The mower roughed things up just enough that it got me to spread a little seed out there to try to use those disturbed spots.
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Thanks guy. I put a little bit of thought into that. when I had the machinery out there, it was hard to resist the urge to just tear everything out and make it a big open square. But I wanted it big but also cozy and eliminate some lines of sight. Those two patches of solid bush are very carefully managed for only desired species and extreme ground density/cover. The rest get extracted with the silky or chainsaw.
If this is what you're talking about, that's a solid patch of canada thistle. I had to move some dirt over there to close up a trench I had made, and it erupted with thistle. That's where I had the guy mowing specifically leave that to showcase my thistle theory, and to finish rehabbing the ground there.
What in the Sam Hill....is a normal person's mind supposed to make out of this word salad? I have not a clue what is being said here. I feel like I'm in advanced biology class here. Anyone else having issues understanding this?Fallow Syndrome: What is it and how do I deal with it?
Fallow syndrome received its name from the dry plains states, where fields routinely benefited from the additional moisture available after a year where the ground was fallowed. Corn sometimes had symptoms of phosphorus deficiency when grown on this previously fallowed ground, thus it received...extension.sdstate.edu
Pay no mind to fertilizer recommendations. It counters the material presented above it. Just need living plants throughout.
From the article, that MF'n MF:
Corn, wheat, and other grass plants receive help taking up phosphorus and other nutrients from associations with beneficial mycorrhiza fungi. These fungi and their host plants form a beneficial relationship with each other. The corn plants provide the mycorrhiza fungi with sugars and the mycorrhiza fungi help the corn plants absorb nutrients such as phosphorus and zinc. These mycorrhiza fungi essentially become an extension of the corn root system. However, without live plant roots during a fallow year, these fungi are depleted over the season and into the following spring, which causes fallow syndrome.
Many crops and weeds form beneficial relationships with mycorrhiza fungi. However, brassica crops and some other crops are not hosts for these fungi. Therefore, if you seeded cover crops or planted crops such as only forage radish, turnips, or sugarbeets on prevent plant acres this year, you will still likely see fallow syndrome symptoms on corn acres next season. Corn will grow out of fallow syndrome symptoms as its root system elongates and becomes larger. However, fields can remain pale and stunted, and some yield will likely be lost.
This very idea is why your pigweed and hawkweed went away after you stopped spraying and tilling. Every time you knocked out your MF with iron or chems, the only plants that could thrive after were those that do so because they don't need MF to get nutrients into themselves. They ran wild because their competition couldn't grow.
