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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1495586" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Over here the recommendation is early spring or early autumn so as it has a chance to get going with least competition from the grasses but I think early autumn is the preferred. I have just put in a small patch of lucerne about 1 ha (2.5 acres) for a similar reason to you. I usually get the cows in to behind the house for calving so like to have a good stock of small square bales plus a few for my wife's horse to keep me in the good books. I had put a small amount mixed in with some Tetila rye previously and it seems to have persisted despite spraying it out several times prior to planting other cereal crops. The area I put the lucerne in has had forage crops continually for 2 years now so weeds (other grasses) would be under control, the lucerne has been in for about 3 weeks now, I did 25kg seed/ha using my old seeder with the tubes from the small seed box just dropping it onto the surface of the broken ground and followed by a rubber tyre roller. I seem to have a good even mat of it covering the ground at the moment though around the edges there seems to be a lot of rye coming through as well. I will not hold back on sprays to control anything unwanted.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1495586, member: 16453"] Over here the recommendation is early spring or early autumn so as it has a chance to get going with least competition from the grasses but I think early autumn is the preferred. I have just put in a small patch of lucerne about 1 ha (2.5 acres) for a similar reason to you. I usually get the cows in to behind the house for calving so like to have a good stock of small square bales plus a few for my wife's horse to keep me in the good books. I had put a small amount mixed in with some Tetila rye previously and it seems to have persisted despite spraying it out several times prior to planting other cereal crops. The area I put the lucerne in has had forage crops continually for 2 years now so weeds (other grasses) would be under control, the lucerne has been in for about 3 weeks now, I did 25kg seed/ha using my old seeder with the tubes from the small seed box just dropping it onto the surface of the broken ground and followed by a rubber tyre roller. I seem to have a good even mat of it covering the ground at the moment though around the edges there seems to be a lot of rye coming through as well. I will not hold back on sprays to control anything unwanted. Ken [/QUOTE]
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