Frost seed reed canary grass.

[Rgv3180]

Have a bunch of bottom ground with lots of canary grass. River bottom that floods. Works great in summer for grazing.
Have areas that are weak in canary grass. I have tried drilling, but I think the stuff is very touchy about getting too deep.
Anyone ever try and frost seed in late feb,early March like we do clover?

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Try letting it go to seed then mowing it with a bush hog just before a rain. Might help, I don't know really, all of my canary grass is volunteer.

 

[M & P]

Frost seeding won't work at all with reeds Canary grass neither will no tilling directly into sod. The only way I have found to start Reed's canary grass from seed is to eliminate all competition (Roundup). Reed's is extremely slow to germinate and to start growing the first 6 months after that it will outgrow just about anything.

 

[M & P]

You might be better off with nitrogen and frequent grazing, as it seems to spread more that way.

 

[Rgv3180]

I agree with the grazing.
We rotational graze this stuff and it grows like crazy all summer.
Like it r not the Johnson grass comes on strong in summer and we keep it grazed before heading out.
All the fescue pastures On high ground support our calves from fall calving
, and with the grain they do very well on it.
These fields have 75 percent reeds, just would like to fill in.