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Hill seed Mix

  • 29-04-2017 11:23am
    #1
    80sDiesel
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    Was talking to a farmer who planted his very cold exposed site with a special hill seed mixture.
    Anyone know what types of grass it might have?

    A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.



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  • #2
    yosemitesam1
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    80sDiesel wrote: »
    Was talking to a farmer who planted his very cold exposed site with a special hill seed mixture.
    Anyone know what types of grass it might have?

    Meadow fescues and/or timothy


  • #3
    mf240
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    https://www.germinal.com/cmsfiles/Difficult-Soils-2017.pdf


  • #4
    80sDiesel
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    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    Meadow fescues and/or timothy

    Is meadow fescue what they had on unimproved lands to make hay in the old days?

    A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.



  • #5
    yosemitesam1
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    80sDiesel wrote: »
    Is meadow fescue what they had on unimproved lands to make hay in the old days?

    Would have been one of the varieties present (alongside ryegrass), will persist better without constant feeding


  • #6
    Harrier1980
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    Some heavy land mixtures have meadow fescue, Timothy and small amount of creeping red fescue along with dense diploid and tetraploid ryegrass and clover.

    Concept is the fescues keep the sward closed, and they will work with less N than perennial ryegrass


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