Do I have to roll!

amacca

Did a reseed there at the weekend.

Long story short, I couldn't get a lad to roll it before this evening. (Talk about things not going to plan)

Its a fairly hilly field with moory land at the margins and was quite dry (a little dusty in places) before the rain/short torrential downpours we've had today.

Im thinking it might do more harm than good to roll it now, clay on the roller, seed and fertiliser dragged up etc.....would be cambridge rolls.

worried if I let it be rolled it could mess it up, Im thinking the dusty nature of the top surface coupled with the rain should mean there is good seed to soil contact and no need to risk damage with the roller


What do ye think? its not swamped and it was quite dry beforehand but theres after been a good number of showers and a 20 minute sustained downpour.....I used to just shake grass seed by hand with no rolling and it always took.....although presumably with much higher seeding rate

Say my name

I'd say you've probably got a good drop of rain by now. So I'd leave it now till it's greened up and a pick on it and then roll.

amacca

Thank you sort of thought that myself but naturally worried. Might go with a flat roller rather than a Cambridge one at that stage

Dinzee Conlee

Do you need to roll it at all?

If it is hilly, you could do more damage than good dragging a big heavy roller around...

We have hilly ground as well, and any reseeds we did (which wouldn’t be that many to be fair) never got rolled and did ok...

amacca

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Do you need to roll it at all?

If it is hilly, you could do more damage than good dragging a big heavy roller around...

We have hilly ground as well, and any reseeds we did (which wouldn’t be that many to be fair) never got rolled and did ok...

The field is a plateau...flat bit on top of hill (approx 3 acres) slopes down fairly steep in two part s but can travel with a tractor without being too worried elsewhere.

I wouldn't bother if it took well and I thought I'd get away with it .....mostly worried the new grass plants will be easily uprooted when it comes grazing time

blue5000

If the seed has germinated don't roll it.

Donald Trump

Would the rain not be a bit more likely to wash the seed to the top as well if it hadn't been rolled?

Either way, as the fella above says, don't roll it now if it has started germinating. Just look forward to a nice Autumn of picking stones.

amacca

Yer man didn't come today so I reckon That was the last chance for dry conditions before germinating.

It won't be getting a rolling now anyway.

I'll post a picture of it at some stage. It's not bad for surface stone now, I've picked so many times at this stage including after every run of a chain harrow i did