Roundup before ploughing

razor8

I sprayed a field for reseeding with roundup biactive the other day, lots of thistles and some heavy rushes. How long would I need to leave it before I plough? its 4 days on now

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razor8 wrote: »

I sprayed a field for reseeding with roundup biactive the other day, lots of thistles and some heavy rushes. How long would I need to leave it before I plough? its 4 days on now

Most would say leave till he field is brown

However I think 4 days plenty! Craic on with the plough

blue5000

7 days. It goes brown on top before the roots are dead.

newholland mad

7 to 10 days but you can graze it off earlier 4 or5 days iirc handy if theres a bulk on it for direct seeding

razor8

topped the rushes off this evening at ploughmans request, grass is all burned off but rushes only slightly. says maybe thursday when he lands so should be grand by then

just wanted to be sure as this is all new to me, thanks for the replies

just do it

How's you go with the ploughing?

razor8

its ploughed since yesterday, took a few pictures which i will put up. i haven't much topsoil only 2 and half to 3 inchs then into channel. first reseed in 30 years on the farm so be interesting to see how it goes

contractor wont be back until Monday as he's flat to the mat at silage. il be hoping for rain in a week or so!!

agriman27

How deep did ye plough. It's a bad job to turn up much channel in my experience

just do it

razor8 wrote: »

its ploughed since yesterday, took a few pictures which i will put up. i haven't much topsoil only 2 and half to 3 inchs then into channel. first reseed in 30 years on the farm so be interesting to see how it goes

contractor wont be back until Monday as he's flat to the mat at silage. il be hoping for rain in a week or so!!

Good stuff, 6 days later. Are you putting out lime? Especially good where you've a lot of decaying vegetation.. In fact did you soil test?!

Just noticed in the journal some rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday so hopefully it will work out nicely. May you be lucky;)

razor8

agriman27 wrote: »

How deep did ye plough. It's a bad job to turn up much channel in my experience

id say he was ploughing on average 7/8 inches. i asked contractor to keep up if he could but he said he couldnt as the sod wouldnt turn over if he did. he said he would normally be going a lot deeper

neighbour ploughed field next to mine last year and used same contractor and he tells me its similar so if it works out half as good il be delighted, its growing serious grass this year

razor8

just do it wrote: »

Good stuff, 6 days later. Are you putting out lime? Especially good where you've a lot of decaying vegetation.. In fact did you soil test?!

Just noticed in the journal some rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday so hopefully it will work out nicely. May you be lucky;)

field requires 11.25 tonnes of lime to hectare. its a 7 acre field so got a tonne of gran lime today and a tonne 10/10/20

will put out 2 tonne ground lime per acre later on when hopefully grass is established

not a lot of rain in pipeline so unsure whether to hold off or not