Collecting Grass Seed

[KenB]

Bahia is a different ball game.You'd be a busy sumbuck mowing everytime a seed head came up.And you'd never have any hay or forage.

Amen to that
I just wish I could figure out how to get the bahia in my fertlized hay fields to grow as fast as the bahia that I don't fertlize in the lawn.

The bahia in my yard produces mostly seed heads, and they don't cut worth a darn.

[TexasBred]

Bahia is a different ball game.You'd be a busy sumbuck mowing everytime a seed head came up.And you'd never have any hay or forage.

Amen to that
I just wish I could figure out how to get the bahia in my fertlized hay fields to grow as fast as the bahia that I don't fertlize in the lawn.

The bahia in my yard produces mostly seed heads, and they don't cut worth a darn.

You don't cut bahia...you twist it off....then you go back out tomorrow and twist it off again. All of this is done with the lawn mower. No matter how sharp the blade you still can't cut it....just twist. In the meantime size of the spot of bahia doubles about ever 30 days if not less.

[mermill2]

I have about an acre behind the house, of fescue, clover, and Johnson grass, that I let go to seed. I go over it with a 10 foot brushog, and it piles up on the deck. All the seed, that I need.

[Jogeephus]

I have about an acre behind the house, of fescue, clover, and Johnson grass, that I let go to seed. I go over it with a 10 foot brushog, and it piles up on the deck. All the seed, that I need.

Years ago, a man like you would have been called industrious and thrifty by most folks. I would still extend the compliment to you today as well.

[mermill2]

Jogeephus, Thank you for the compliment.

[dyates]

I have about an acre behind the house, of fescue, clover, and Johnson grass, that I let go to seed. I go over it with a 10 foot brushog, and it piles up on the deck. All the seed, that I need.

Johnson Grass? I've spent a fortune trying to get rid of that stuff. It makes pretty good hay in pure stands if you do it right, but it sure is an invasive pain in the @$$ when you're trying to put up other types of hay. I had to spray my tobacco patch with poast to slow the JG down for the tobacco to get ahead. Still, at harvest time, the field looked as much like a corn field as anything else. Made over 3000 lbs. of tobacco to the acre though.

[mermill2]

I have about an acre behind the house, of fescue, clover, and Johnson grass, that I let go to seed. I go over it with a 10 foot brushog, and it piles up on the deck. All the seed, that I need.

Johnson Grass? I've spent a fortune trying to get rid of that stuff. It makes pretty good hay in pure stands if you do it right, but it sure is an invasive pain in the @$$ when you're trying to put up other types of hay. I had to spray my tobacco patch with poast to slow the JG down for the tobacco to get ahead. Still, at harvest time, the field looked as much like a corn field as anything else. Made over 3000 lbs. of tobacco to the acre though.

I don't grow any crops other than pasture and hay on that particular farm. Fescue, clover, and Johnson grass are the only kinds of grasses, that I grow. If Johnson grass needs to be kept in check, just turn cows in the field they'll keep it controlled.

[hooknline]

Thought this post was worth bring back up

[circlew]

My granddad planted a hay field 25 years ago. He told me he fixed a garbage bag to the front bumper of his truck then drove down the side of the highway. Got all the seed he needed plus a pile of ticks. Also when your cutting hay the canvas on the mower gets covered in seed. We also kept some seed that way.

[JSCATTLE]

I know a older fella that has a wooden box on the front of his four wheeler . It has a piece of old sickle blade nailed to it . He collects seed while he is lookin at his cows . I've cut Bahia and 3 days later it's setting seed . I don't think you can cut it fast enough to stop it from bolting .I seeded 40 acres a couple years ago with Bahia by unrolling hay . I put out 140 rolls that winter and the next spring the pasture was almost solid Bahia by year 2 it was completely covered .