The most famous thistle patch in MN
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SD51555
5 year old buck +
Absolutely. Thistle late like this will flatten with just your shoe.
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Angus 1895
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Why does it need to be flattened?
SD51555
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To let the sunlight in for your new plants coming up, make a duff blanket to get your new stuff germinated in case rain aint coming, and keep the turkeys away.
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SD51555
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I made a quick journey back to the plots to blow leaves off the access trails. Gonna be a crunchy walk in this year if it doesn’t rain.
Anyway, decided to check most famous thistle patch after the throw and roll.
It’s looking real good.
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Way back in this thread, this is the throw and roll result on the patch last year. The cereals came flying thru.
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farmlegend
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SD51555
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farmlegend
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A bit of wheat, rye, boston plantain, endure chicory, yellow blossom sweet clover, balansa. Some surviving medium red beneath the thistle.
Oh - threw 100# pelletized gypsum on it.
It’s a crescent-shaped plot, following along wet woodland on one side and NWSG’s on the other. About 150 yard long and five yards wide. It’s a firearm doe harvest spot, have a ladder stand well above it in elevation.
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SD51555
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Very nice! If u get some follow up pics as it’s growing, please share them!
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farmlegend
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Enthused at this new discovery. Thank you SD!
Q. How do you spread seed over seven foot tall thistle? I tried it two ways and neither was satisfactory for the amount of effort applied. May be a good application for drones.
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farmlegend
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Mowing a 1.3a clover plot presently. Mowed around three canada thistle “thickets”. This stuff isnt as tall as what I was working with yesterday. Worth a thow and roll? Have everything handy to do it. Or leave it for next year?
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SD51555
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Enthused at this new discovery. Thank you SD!
Q. How do you spread seed over seven foot tall thistle? I tried it two ways and neither was satisfactory for the amount of effort applied. May be a good application for drones.
Make a pilot path with your wheeler, but no roller. That’ll get u thru, and then from there, I’d throw big seed by hand into the patch, and then do small seeds with the blower seeder.
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SD51555
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I’d throw and roll it. I’ve got follow up pics of my throw and roll from last weekend, but don’t have enough internet to post a lot of pics yet. I’ll put them up when I get home.
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Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
Haha! I have buddies who refer to the summer buckwheat cultipacked over fall broadcasted seed as the Jeff sturgis throw n roll.
Now we have the summer thistle throw n roll as the “SD thistle throw n roll”
Now we have the summer thistle throw n roll as the “SD thistle throw n roll”
farmlegend
5 year old buck +
I didn't care for that buckwheat roll stuff. The video I saw on it suggested that buckwheat can grow practically everywhere. It doesn't. On my greasy, compacted dirt, buckwheat (I've planted it many times) grows well approximately one year out of three; it doesn't handle wet dirt very well.
Canada thistle, on the other hand, is a superb performer on disturbed ground and manages protracted moisture quite nicely. In addition to producing root structure and biomass that makes buckwheat look like a gnat. And it rolls like a champ! Planning on throwing and rolling on some more tomorrow.
