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Got one more roll, spray and pray plot done today. It was a nasty jungle of rye and weeds. Not super optimistic on this one, but time will tell. One more to go, then I'm done (hopefully) with plots for the year.
I have 3 bags of triple 18 left, would I be fine using that on the brassicas for a boost? I planted end of June and was figuring on fertilizing end of July.
Trip 18 should be fine, it may be a waste of the other nutrients if your soil doesn't need them, but it shouldn't hurt anything at all. Hopefully your brassicas will catch and scavenge the extra nutrients to be used next spring when they decompose.
Trip 18 should be fine, it may be a waste of the other nutrients if your soil doesn't need them, but it shouldn't hurt anything at all. Hopefully your brassicas will catch and scavenge the extra nutrients to be used next spring when they decompose.
Will you be throwing some rye in there to overseed this fall? If so, the rye will help with scavenging those nutrients as well so they wouldn't all be lost.
You may want to take a page from the dipper playbook and get it down sometime soon so it can add some height to help with deer having to dig through the snow to get it, as opposed to waiting until around Labor Day and getting minimal growth for the short amount of growing days you will have left that far north.
what kind of hand spreader? like a push type lawn broadcast spreader? Or a bag spreader? I use the push type broadcast spreader. I usually hit the brassicas with N when they are 3-6" as long as there is sufficient rain on the way, and i would say that the plants that get trampled end up bouncing back or others fill in. Not sure how much difference an atv/utv/scut with spreader would be? I would generally think that the damage would be minimal.
what kind of hand spreader? like a push type lawn broadcast spreader? Or a bag spreader? I use the push type broadcast spreader. I usually hit the brassicas with N when they are 3-6" as long as there is sufficient rain on the way, and i would say that the plants that get trampled end up bouncing back or others fill in. Not sure how much difference an atv/utv/scut with spreader would be? I would generally think that the damage would be minimal.
Right now I just use the normal bag hand seeder that I seed with. I suppose you could do pretty well with a push type one instead of taking the heavy ATV in the field. Not sure how well Brassicas handle being driven over as I've never done it and thus why I am asking.
I don't have large plots. My largest is an acre. I spread using my Solo spreader. Last year I did my neighbor's 1.5ish acre plot on a hot, humid day. Character building :)
I planted my first brassica plot this weekend, the only thing that I was uncomfortable with was the fact that I couldn't see how the seed was spreading out of my little scott hand seeder. I ended up using way more seed than I was supposed to. Do others just have blind faith that it is spreading out evenly?
I planted my first brassica plot this weekend, the only thing that I was uncomfortable with was the fact that I couldn't see how the seed was spreading out of my little scott hand seeder. I ended up using way more seed than I was supposed to. Do others just have blind faith that it is spreading out evenly?
Solo spreader works great, but if you have deer flies and are spreading soybeans, make sure you close the gate of the spreader before swatting deer fly on your left side.