Grass Growth is Phenomenal

Dampintheattic

With the past five days rain, in the west at least, grass has literally exploded out of the ground. Can't remember ever before seeing such a growth spurt.

One particularly dry field, baled on June 20, and fertilized again for grazing barely moved until this period of rain. Walking through it this morning, I was amazed at the turnaround in four days.:D

whelan1

yes, a happy post from dampintheattic.... yipee

iverjohnston

All we need is one from Bob, and the summer is officially a gud-un!

Dampintheattic

whelan1 wrote: »

yes, a happy post from dampintheattic.... yipee

Think I might have a barbeque, and a few bevvies:cool:

iverjohnston

Carefull now, down with that sort of thing!:D

bob charles

iverjohnston wrote: »

All we need is one from Bob, and the summer is officially a gud-un!

I was chuffed until this blasted rain that many of yous were on your hands and knees saying decades of the rosary for came along. The "im alright Jack" attitude

Sam Kade

A bit of useless information Bob Charles was once called Flurry Knox

just do it

Sam Kade wrote: »

A bit of useless information Bob Charles was once called Flurry Knox

The messer in the boards farming discussion group

bob charles

Sam Kade wrote: »

A bit of useless information Bob Charles was once called Flurry Knox

I have being called many is the name especially beginning with F and K

pg141

A sure it was a grand auld summer all the same :rolleyes:

bbam

The big danger is how long this "great rain" will stay..
recently our weather has a tendancy to get "locked in over us". A few weeks of rain now would more than undo to good the brief dry spell did..

I don't trust this rain, like a bad house guest - comes when uninvited, stays way too long, and then you spend ages tidying up after it !

stanflt

Dampintheattic wrote: »

With the past five days rain, in the west at least, grass has literally exploded out of the ground. Can't remember ever before seeing such a growth spurt.

One particularly dry field, baled on June 20, and fertilized again for grazing barely moved until this period of rain. Walking through it this morning, I was amazed at the turnaround in four days.:D

What was the growth rate for the last four days?

Surely if cut on 20 June it should be grazed already

Is it headed out badly

jomoloney

walked the driest fields to day some of which burned badly, still too dry to spread fertilizer on

PatQfarmer

jomoloney wrote: »

walked the driest fields to day some of which burned badly, still too dry to spread fertilizer on

Me too. Will wait for a bit more "softening" in Tipp.

whelan1

have drainage guys in at the minute , they have another crew working in meath and they had to pull out from the meath site yesterday as it was so wet, still working away here. Yesterday a lorry was actually able to travel across a field to dump a load of drainage stones , 2 months ago this would have been impossible

tabby aspreme

We have 20mm of rain so far this week , 6 mm of that fell in 15 minutes at lunchtime so I went out with the spade and dug a bit to see how far down the rain got, top 10 mm of clay is damp and under that its very dry like powder.

paddysdream

Very little rain here in the sunny south east. Grass completely stopped. My fields are like the Sahara at the moment. It will take more than a nights rain to get it going again this year.Hear a lot of suckler men around here starting to drop in bales to cows ,even a few on supposedly heavy land.

Don't live a million miles from the Carlow dairyman featured at the back of the Farmers Journal this week and you should see how bare that is.In fairness he had cows out in Jan . The man scanning the last of my ewe lambs(24th Jan. I think) asked me was he taking the p**s as he passed there on his way to me and along with maybe 80 cows he had a sprinkler spreading dirty water/washings on the paddocks the same day and not so much as a dirty mark on the grass.

Horses for courses I suppose.

1chippy

Grass growth is nil around here. at a discussion group we were told to go out with nitrogen even if we thought it was too dry. only exception to the rule was if there was a deluge coming which would wash the fertilizer away before it got a chance.

reilig

tabby aspreme wrote: »

We have 20mm of rain so far this week , 6 mm of that fell in 15 minutes at lunchtime so I went out with the spade and dug a bit to see how far down the rain got, top 10 mm of clay is damp and under that its very dry like powder.

Ground gone too yet to mole plough here. 4 wheels on tractor just spin in some places and in some of the wetter places you can see the water splash up around the cutting disc as it cuts the sod. Either way it just makes a mess.

Would ye be interested in buying a few thousand gallons of water?

whelan1

lads that are draining for me have a mole plough that also puts drainage stone down, they where at it today, wheels where spinning a bit in downpour this evening but was fine before that

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

lads that are draining for me have a mole plough that also puts drainage stone down, they where at it today, wheels where spinning a bit in downpour this evening but was fine before that

Gravel mole! Have used one building a football pitch. Awful expensive yoke to be using on farmland. Savage for drainage though.

whelan1

reilig wrote: »

Gravel mole! Have used one building a football pitch. Awful expensive yoke to be using on farmland. Savage for drainage though.

ye . hope it works

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

ye . hope it works

It certainly will!! Have seen first hand what it can do for wet ground! You'll be crying out for rain during the next dry spell

mf240

reilig wrote: »

Gravel mole! Have used one building a football pitch. Awful expensive yoke to be using on farmland. Savage for drainage though.

Is it expensive to hire or does it use a lot of chippings. Surely it would be cheaper than a digger and seperate stone cart?

freedominacup

1chippy wrote: »

Grass growth is nil around here. at a discussion group we were told to go out with nitrogen even if we thought it was too dry. only exception to the rule was if there was a deluge coming which would wash the fertilizer away before it got a chance.

They told us by text on 9/07 not to spread as too dry, then a week later put out 15 units. Mine is still in bag only enough rain to f' things up after falling here so far.Pig slurry spread a week ago still on ground yesterday.

whelan1

mf240 wrote: »

Is it expensive to hire or does it use a lot of chippings. Surely it would be cheaper than a digger and seperate stone cart?

dunno i am not paying for it...this is fixing up where the gas pipeline went through my farm

reilig

mf240 wrote: »

Is it expensive to hire or does it use a lot of chippings. Surely it would be cheaper than a digger and seperate stone cart?

Expensive to hire plus on the football pitches that we were doing it was costing about 3k per acre in stone. You'd get away with less for farmland, but you are still looking at 1500 to 2k per acre for stone alone.

Viewtodiefor

freedominacup wrote: »

They told us by text on 9/07 not to spread as too dry, then a week later put out 15 units. Mine is still in bag only enough rain to f' things up after falling here so far.Pig slurry spread a week ago still on ground yesterday.

Got some out last Saturday and Monday , definitely can see it making a difference now as we didn't get the Huge downpours that fell elsewhere, need more rain though

delaval

Back from hols today. Expecting huge growth since rain!!
Last week was 22

whelan1

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Got some out last Saturday and Monday , definitely can see it making a difference now as we didn't get the Huge downpours that fell elsewhere, need more rain though

better out than in , i always say:D

kowtow

reilig wrote: »

Would ye be interested in buying a few thousand gallons of water?

Would it be the terrible dangerous Irish water that makes bogs of fields and floods the roads and the basements?

Or the new German troika water which they are putting in the meters. That stuff must be special with the price they want for it..