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Repairing damaged swards

  • 06-03-2014 10:25am
    #1
    keep going
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    Walked all the land this week and there is a good bit of swards damaged after the winter/autumn.we suffered big time from salt burn and the top of thee ground has a kind of a skin on it from all the heavy rain.also in one block I got caught grazing fery heavy covers in poor conditions.swards are very open and alot of bare earth between plants and dosent look like tillering will make for it.so im loohking at ways of spruceing up these fields as there is no problem with scutch or weeds and the land is rented for between 1 and 4 years and has allbeen reseeded in the last 3 to 5 year's..so the different methods im considering are 1slurry seeding2einbock or chain harrow and rolling3spread hayseed before grazing and let cows walk it in (used in nz a good bit and heard about another fella that does it here).given the time frame with rented ground and the fact there is still a good shot of rye grass in the fields I'm not looking at a full reseed.ps I understand the secret to alot of these regimes is the grazing after wards


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  • #2
    mf240
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    Chain harrow and rolling will help a lot. I done it last spring on a two year old reseed that was very badly poached in 2012. A good compound fert would help it too, and if you thought it was necessary you could mix some grass seed in with the fert.


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    49801
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    mf240 wrote: »
    Chain harrow and rolling will help a lot. I done it last spring on a two year old reseed that was very badly poached in 2012. A good compound fert would help it too, and if you thought it was necessary you could mix some grass seed in with the fert.

    Sounds good.
    In a similar situation as the OP with a thin Sward that was reseeded last year.
    Got quite a doing by frit fly :mad: too.


  • #4
    keep going
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    mf240 wrote: »
    Chain harrow and rolling will help a lot. I done it last spring on a two year old reseed that was very badly poached in 2012. A good compound fert would help it too, and if you thought it was necessary you could mix some grass seed in with the fert.

    Thinking of getting one of those trailed chain harrows and throwing it behind the fert spinner, I can always shift with the loader


  • #5
    Zr105
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    keep going wrote: »
    Thinking of getting one of those trailed chain harrows and throwing it behind the fert spinner, I can always shift with the loader

    Id say go for the mounted... It may seem a pain having to do it as a separate pass but the novelty of unhooking and lifting the trailed type through every gap gets old very quick.. Not to mention they can be buggers for rolling up on themselves...

    The mounted also have the advantage of the leveling bars up front so any reavy lumps can get knocked down by them


  • #6
    JHolland88
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    Scatter some seed and a heavy coat of slurry??


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    Miname
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    Zr105 wrote: »
    Id say go for the mounted... It may seem a pain having to do it as a separate pass but the novelty of unhooking and lifting the trailed type through every gap gets old very quick.. Not to mention they can be buggers for rolling up on themselves...

    The mounted also have the advantage of the leveling bars up front so any reavy lumps can get knocked down by them
    I would be more likely to go with the trailed, strap on a railway sleeper and away you go. cheaper too!


  • #8
    Greengrass1
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    Hoping to buy an einbock here this year. Will get Local lad to disc the ground for reseeding and and go with einbock. Seen it in friends farm. Super job altogether. And ye can also reseed with the einbock its self


  • #9
    Zr105
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Hoping to buy an einbock here this year. Will get Local lad to disc the ground for reseeding and and go with einbock. Seen it in friends farm. Super job altogether. And ye can also reseed with the einbock its self

    Got an einbock to sow grass seed here this year(full reseed) and would have to say it was a great job alright!


  • #10
    Greengrass1
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    Zr105 wrote: »
    Got an einbock to sow grass seed here this year(full reseed) and would have to say it was a great job alright!

    Seen one in the IFJ with a Fiona sower on the top of it. Pricey but would last a lifetime


  • #11
    JHolland88
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    We used a 3m Amazone power harrow with an Airseeder on ploughed ground and disked ground it was a fantastic job!


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