Repairing poached land

kfk

Other than ploughing and reseeding, what is the best way to repair poached land. Some fields were badly poached last year and as a result are still very soft compared to unpoached land. I was thinking of rolling and then using a subsoiler afterwards. Any thoughts

Timmaay

Supposedly rolling poached land isn't the way to go, it will compact it too much, using a ring roller is meant to be much more effective. Subsoiling should help for definite, once you have the right sort of soiltype. But yep, I have one paddock that is very badly poached, it sort of became a sacrificial paddock. I really should have tried to sort it out before now, as all of the ground is very hard now (we have had little or no rain here in Wicklow over the last few weeks).

An alternative being advertised are theses: http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/harrows/4673573 . They seem cheap enough, I have no idea if they are any use to be honest, maybe someone else has used them?

kfk

Timmaay wrote: »

Supposedly rolling poached land isn't the way to go, it will compact it too much, using a ring roller is meant to be much more effective. Subsoiling should help for definite, once you have the right sort of soiltype. But yep, I have one paddock that is very badly poached, it sort of became a sacrificial paddock. I really should have tried to sort it out before now, as all of the ground is very hard now (we have had little or no rain here in Wicklow over the last few weeks).

An alternative being advertised are theses: http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/harrows/4673573 . They seem cheap enough, I have no idea if they are any use to be honest, maybe someone else has used them?

I rolled one paddock in March and as you say, it seems too compacted and is probably softer that the paddocks that have not been rolled. Might try to pick up a cheap subsoiler to see if that helps. I have a power harrow. Might go over a paddock with it and then throw out some seed. Only ever used it after ploughing. Would it work on unploughed land?