visatorro wrote: » Do you roll after? Presume you can't roll with your spikey roller?
Reggie. wrote: » No you use a Cambridge or flat roller. You either roll or throw out parlour washing. It's to guarentee soil contact for the seed. Also protects aganist slugs if they are around. I didn't roll the calf paddocks. Want to see the effect without rolling.
visatorro wrote: » Have a flat roller here.
charolais0153 wrote: » Id be afraid tge ridges would bury the seed to deep on a cambridge. Flat roller is better job
Reggie. wrote: » A seed bed just has to be soild and the ground exposed. If you till the ground like mad All you are left with at times is powdery soil which is poached easily when wet. Most of my work is repairing patchy reseeds or reseeds after the first winter. Poweharrows leave the ground very vulnerable to holding water unless very well rolled numerous times. All the seed needs is soil contact and that's where the roller comes in. Clover is usually sown at 2kg an acre. The clover itself is expensive compared to grass seed so not sure about that but seeding run of harrow is €25 and any preparation runs are €10
TheDoc77 wrote: » I’ve a bit of ground taken on a 5 year lease and am thinking of stitching in some clover and possibly chicory as well, it’s been limed and pk levels are good, do u think it’d be worth doing? Will be grazed by sheep
wrangler wrote: » We did it years ago, it came up well but the sheep sward was just too thick for it, I was block grazing grass early in that year and before i moved on the sheep I spread clover seed and walked it in with the sheep.
farisfat wrote: » Would that work on cow ground with a hybrid grass seed.
blue5000 wrote: » It's not far off, might be a bit light, what speed do you drive at?
MeTheMan wrote: » What is the draw to clover?
charolais0153 wrote: » Draw?
Dunedin wrote: » I have a field that I ploughed last August but weather broke and never got to do to sow it. There are a few tuffs of grass and an dock here and there showing. Would it need spraying again?
Reggie. wrote: » I'd do it for the sake of weeds that may have blown in and you haven't noticed yet
Dunedin wrote: » Would the 6 week post emergence spray not capture that. If I spray now, I’ve another 7-10 days delay and I’m already going to be tight with this bit out of the grazing rotation
Reggie. wrote: » Are you powerharrowing?
Dunedin wrote: » Rotavating. Have my own so will be doing myself
Justjens wrote: » My little set up, taken 2 years ago: There was a savage clover sward in it, so hoping for a repeat. Same paddock yesterday which was even worse than in '16, lost count of the number of runs, just needs a rolling:
Reggie. wrote: » Why are ya reseeding again after 2 years
Justjens wrote: » Sacrifical paddock for the sucklers, looked good in early March with a nice pick but then weather went tits-up and I had to feed a few bales in a feeder. Looks good now tho after a rolling this morning.
