Slurry seeding

390kid

Has anyone on here any experience of using this method to bring some life back into old swards or if it's even worth considering? If so any tips or advice

Sam Kade

Are you saying mixing grass seed with slurry when agitating and spreading, it only works with Italian ryegrass.

dohc turbo2

Not well up on it , but a Tegasc lad was telling me once to chain Harrow first them spread the seed , he said it was a larger than normal seed and spread a coat of slurry to keep seed down , I didn't follow up on it after , but remember him saying it

Justjens

Raw slurry is a bit harsh on seed, ideally chain harrow, seed, roll, graze after 3 or 4 weeks and then slurry.

orm0nd

Justjens wrote: »

Raw slurry is a bit harsh on seed, ideally chain harrow, seed, roll, graze after 3 or 4 weeks and then slurry.

yep
Also if you apply slurry on top of seed it attracts the roots up instead of they going down to the soil

croot

I'm going to try this method on two paddocks that are badly poached at the moment


http://m.independent.ie/business/farming/overseeding-is-one-shortterm-option-to-repair-poached-paddocks-29167641.html

390kid

Justjens wrote: »

Raw slurry is a bit harsh on seed, ideally chain harrow, seed, roll, graze after 3 or 4 weeks and then slurry.

Would you be stitching that seed in or spreading on the surface?

9935452

390kid wrote: »

Has anyone on here any experience of using this method to bring some life back into old swards or if it's even worth considering? If so any tips or advice

We did it at one stage and the seeds took fairly well but you need to be putting the slurry out fairly heavy for it to work

Sam Kade

Would it not be better to get a bit of soil on the surface with a power harrow and cover it with soil?

9935452

Sam Kade wrote: »

Would it not be better to get a bit of soil on the surface with a power harrow and cover it with soil?

quicker turnaround with slurry . the old grass is still growing with it.
We did it on a field where there was rocks a few inches down.
Otherwise it would have been ploughed.
Plus it was an experiment for us

Justjens

390kid wrote: »

Would you be stitching that seed in or spreading on the surface?

This is my set up, still a bit sticky in places but great drying today so hopefully get the seed in tomorrow or Friday, just need the wind to die down a bit.

tractorporn

Justjens wrote:

This is my set up, still a bit sticky in places but great drying today so hopefully get the seed in tomorrow or Friday, just need the wind to die down a bit.

Do you find you get a good take on the grass seed with that set up?

Justjens

tractorporn wrote: »

Do you find you get a good take on the grass seed with that set up?

Best success has been in grazing fields, or after silage, essentials are to redden the ground before seeding and then grazing 3 to 4 weeks later with light stock for a short time to give the clover a chance to establish.

keep going

Justjens wrote: »

Best success has been in grazing fields, or after silage, essentials are to redden the ground before seeding and then grazing 3 to 4 weeks later with light stock for a short time to give the clover a chance to establish.

do you use that harrow to get that much earth like in the photo

tractorporn

Justjens wrote:

essentials are to redden the ground before seeding

Excuse my ignorance but please explain redden the ground?

9935452

tractorporn wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance but please explain redden the ground?

essentially bringing up topsoil

tractorporn

9935452 wrote: »

essentially bringing up topsoil

Ah we would say tearing up a good scraw down this neck of the woods.

_Brian

keep going wrote: »

do you use that harrow to get that much earth like in the photo

I was wondering the same.. how many passes with the harrow to open it up like that.. Nice simple overseed system.

tractorporn

_Brian wrote: »

I was wondering the same.. how many passes with the harrow to open it up like that.. Nice simple overseed system.

Lovely simple system, do you give it a light roll after the seed goes out?

Justjens

_Brian wrote: »

I was wondering the same.. how many passes with the harrow to open it up like that.. Nice simple overseed system.

The sucklers helped considerably :eek: then I gave it 4 or 5 runs before seeding, and then a light roll.

Justjens

tractorporn wrote: »

Do you find you get a good take on the grass seed with that set up?

Just to follow on with this......

This was about 4 to 5 weeks ago:





And this was today, the field has had a tight grazing, a topping and a dose of liquid slurry a week ago. This clover cover here is about the average in the field, the barer at the time of seeding the better. Also where there was a good grass cover at time of seeding there is now a noticeable improvement in the amount of clover.

Water John

Nice sward. a lot more use of clovers needed now to keep down fertiliser costs. A few runs of a leveller can also bring up enough soil, wagtail and roll. Little down time.