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[Bowsnbucks]

The rest of the millet heads filled this week. This is the biggest crop of jap millet I’ve ever had.

The clovers and the rest underneath look great too. I’m getting anxious to roll this, but I have to wait until the weekend after Labor Day.

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All kinds of birds gonna love that millet. Clovers look great too. Why does the soil in the last pic look grayish? The crops seem to be doing great in it.

 

[SD51555]

All kinds of birds gonna love that millet. Clovers look great too. Why does the soil in the last pic look grayish? The crops seem to be doing great in it.

That’s subsoil clay. I had some really big stumps right on the edge of the plot, and the dirt got all mixed up.

Japanese millet has been really good for me on subsoils that end up on top, flax too for that matter. It is six feet tall in the good soil.


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[SD51555]

My yard plot throw and roll 7 days in.

The beans are barely starting to swell.

The trit is germinating.

The good end.

The bad spot. The brome grass and some vining weed don’t allow any good stuff in.

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[Foggy47]

So, show me some trophy deer? Grin. (Not easy to provide such on the tundra….despite the food provided).

 

[SD51555]

So, show me some trophy deer? Grin. (Not easy to provide such on the tundra….despite the food provided).

It's northern mn. There are no trophy deer. Having expectations like that could ruin a guy's experience.

 

[T-Max]

My yard plot throw and roll 7 days in.

The beans are barely starting to swell.

The trit is germinating.

The good end.

The bad spot. The brome grass and some vining weed don’t allow any good stuff in.

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Do you think over time you can sneak in from the edges and overcome it? Or is intervention required?


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[SD51555]

Do you think over time you can sneak in from the edges and overcome it? Or is intervention required?


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I am not sure. The brome doesn’t seem to spread, it’s just that spot. I don’t have any peaceful ideas on how to deal with it at the moment.


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[T-Max]

What about a layer of cardboard with straw mulch? By the time it breaks down enough to plant the brome could be smothered out. Trying to think outside the box like you taught me.


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[SD51555]

What about a layer of cardboard with straw mulch? By the time it breaks down enough to plant the brome could be smothered out. Trying to think outside the box like you taught me.


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You know what, you are spot on. This spot isn't so big that I can't lay down black fabric, now even, and keep it covered until June 1st. The spot won't be so big the biology cannot move back in quickly, and that should help burn out what is there. That is a fantastic idea, and I will likely do that this coming week. then I can plant pumpkins there too.

Proud of you.

 

[T-Max]

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[matinc]

SD please post pics of the rolling. What are you broadcasting underneath?

 

[SD51555]

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[SD51555]

SD please post pics of the rolling. What are you broadcasting underneath?

That was the same video from last week. You saw that one. It got winter trit, grocery store dry beans, and zucchini.


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[SD51555]

Bear hunting has been a bust, so I decided to end my week early and save the PTO for later on. But, before I left, I got some chores done. I needed to get my new plot overseeded with winter trit and Aldi beans and get it rolled. This stuff laid flat flat. I was very impressed.

This one is almost drought proof. Just need to see how the trit and the clovers push through all that duff. I was a little nervous at how thick it was when it laid down. I won't rule out one more seeding of the legumes if they don't push through in a couple weeks.

https://rumble.com/v6ygxrc-throw-and-roll-japanese-millet.html

 

[matinc]

Holy sheep shit SD talk about a thick carpet of extra flat duff. That's incredible. I am curious if it can germinate and make it through the duff. Your sink hole fix was quite interesting. It's amazing how much foliage your soil sends up as the OM rises. It sure gives a person hope and to continue down the throw and roll path.

 

[SD51555]

Holy sheep shit SD talk about a thick carpet of extra flat duff. That's incredible. I am curious if it can germinate and make it through the duff. Your sink hole fix was quite interesting. It's amazing how much foliage your soil sends up as the OM rises. It sure gives a person hope and to continue down the throw and roll path.

I think the trit will sail through it. I'm worried the legumes I put in, in June, might not be there after being under 6' of jap millet for two months. Had I known millet would lay that flat, I'd have waited until now to plant it. The YSC residue stands up so much higher that I think little seeds can't make it to sun.

For me, throw and roll isn't about maximum yields. It's about getting consistent yields, no matter the conditions mother nature throws at us. Once that residue carpet is there, and the perennials are up and running, I don't worry about fertility, rain, weeds, time, chores, equipment, money, foliars, soil tests, etc. The worst of the drought years I had, the mixed perennial plots sailed through and put green in the strike zone.

I've been through that death followed by drought model and it's left me empty handed too many times.

 

[matinc]

SD please explain your thoughts on the ysc residue? I planted ysc this year per your advice.

 

[SD51555]

SD please explain your thoughts on the ysc residue? I planted ysc this year per your advice.

It's fine. It's just more springy after being rolled because it's a wirey residue. The Jap millet pressed flat like hot asphalt. I'd still plant YSC and put in the reseeding clovers and rely on alfalfa and chicory and plantain to endure. Red seems to keep coming back in the YSC. Balansa is the only one that doesn't seem to make it through after the big biomass is laid down. As long as the chicory and alfalfa is there, the rest is just running up the score.

 

[SD51555]

I went out to my tower blind to get chairs out for the other blinds. Got to put eyes on my throw and roll from a month ago. It’s really looking nice. One month to go to build up some more tonnage.

There is a bumper crop of plants plantain this year. It’s a great mid October draw in my area.

Little bit of thistle is a good thing too.

All the grass is cooked and behaving.

I got to see the bur oaks in that plot too. The acorn crop isn’t quite as massive as I thought. The ones up by the cabin had me thinking I had a rail car of acorns on my 40.

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[SD51555]

This is probably the best illustration of what I was after. Whatever grasses I have, they are just done for the year, and all the good stuff pushes right up thru. You can see the edges where I couldn’t reach with the roller.

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