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Did a little pasture renovation last weekend
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Wilson" data-source="post: 643984" data-attributes="member: 8362"><p>We have a couple acre area in one pasture that hasn't been worth cutting for hay for the past two years. Lots of white dutch clover and lance leaf ragweed....called gum weed by the locals. But not much height to the tall fescue and what was there was thin. Last summer and fall, we spread a lot of manure on it though. That really got the dutch clover going nuts. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, last Saturday I disked it in two directions, about 2 inches deep. Then drug the 24 foot flex tine harrow over it in two directions. Followed by slinging orchard grass and red clover with a 3 point hitch seeder and a final light harrowing across the slope. The disking made a really nice seedbed but left a lot of the existing sod there for erosion control. I'll wait until the clover has a chance to establish before I put down any fertilizer. Should have probably limed it but the pH was 6.3 so I decided to skip it since there wasn't time to get it applied before I seeded. In the next month or so, I should be able to see what kind of stand I'm going to get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Wilson, post: 643984, member: 8362"] We have a couple acre area in one pasture that hasn't been worth cutting for hay for the past two years. Lots of white dutch clover and lance leaf ragweed....called gum weed by the locals. But not much height to the tall fescue and what was there was thin. Last summer and fall, we spread a lot of manure on it though. That really got the dutch clover going nuts. Anyway, last Saturday I disked it in two directions, about 2 inches deep. Then drug the 24 foot flex tine harrow over it in two directions. Followed by slinging orchard grass and red clover with a 3 point hitch seeder and a final light harrowing across the slope. The disking made a really nice seedbed but left a lot of the existing sod there for erosion control. I'll wait until the clover has a chance to establish before I put down any fertilizer. Should have probably limed it but the pH was 6.3 so I decided to skip it since there wasn't time to get it applied before I seeded. In the next month or so, I should be able to see what kind of stand I'm going to get. [/QUOTE]
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