My “Happy Accident” plot!

[Westwind]

Yo Westwind -

In your pics at post #30, you showed a ton of peas in your field. You said driving the planter didn't knock back the peas as much as you thought. What seeding rate did you use for getting such a great pea plot?? How deep did you plant them?? We tried peas a couple times at camp, but didn't have much success. I'm wondering what we did wrong.

They stood back up after a few days! Laid down so nice, completely covered the ground but the dang things wouldn't give up! I might do that again. I bet had I waited until they were mature or closer to it they would have terminated. The seed mix was 50 pounds oats, 50 pounds rye grain and 50 pounds of winter peas per acre. I was also dropping radish clover and turnip seed through the small box, they grew fair. I’m not sure why the peas did so good, they didn’t winter kill and then they just went gonzo. My seeder is a Woods PSS82 and I set the disk gang straight or almost straight so some hit the furrow and got buried and some didn’t.

ETA- I just corrected the above. I thought I was doing more tilling back then but apparently I was setting the discs straight for less soil disturbance. My biggest burned up bare ground failures were when I set the disk gangs agrressive and tilled the green into the soil. I gotta remember to never do that again.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

They stood back up after a few days! Laid down so nice, completely covered the ground but the dang things wouldn't give up! I might do that again. I bet had I waited until they were mature or closer to it they would have terminated. The seed mix was 50 pounds oats, 50 pounds rye grain and 50 pounds of winter peas per acre. I was also dropping radish clover and turnip seed through the small box, they grew fair. I’m not sure why the peas did so good, they didn’t winter kill and then they just went gonzo. My seeder is a Woods PSS82 and I set the disk gang straight or almost straight so some hit the furrow and got buried and some didn’t.

ETA- I just corrected the above. I thought I was doing more tilling back then but apparently I was setting the discs straight for less soil disturbance. My biggest burned up bare ground failures were when I set the disk gangs agrressive and tilled the green into the soil. I gotta remember to never do that again.

I'm jealous! That Woods seeder is awesome I bet. They are made right down the road from me.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

They stood back up after a few days! Laid down so nice, completely covered the ground but the dang things wouldn't give up! I might do that again. I bet had I waited until they were mature or closer to it they would have terminated. The seed mix was 50 pounds oats, 50 pounds rye grain and 50 pounds of winter peas per acre. I was also dropping radish clover and turnip seed through the small box, they grew fair. I’m not sure why the peas did so good, they didn’t winter kill and then they just went gonzo. My seeder is a Woods PSS82 and I set the disk gang straight or almost straight so some hit the furrow and got buried and some didn’t.

ETA- I just corrected the above. I thought I was doing more tilling back then but apparently I was setting the discs straight for less soil disturbance. My biggest burned up bare ground failures were when I set the disk gangs agrressive and tilled the green into the soil. I gotta remember to never do that again.

What time of year did you seed that mix??

 

[Westwind]

What time of year did you seed that mix?

Right after Labor Day!

Have had some great rain here. Pretty excited to see this years plots.