SEED IN MINERAL

[jd35154]

HAS ANYONE ON THIS BOARD TRIED TO MIX SOME KIND OF SEED IN WITH THIER MINERAL. I HAVE BASICALLY ALL COOL SEASON FESCUE PASTURES AND WOULD LIKE TO ADD SOME WARM SEASON ANNUALS DURING THE SUMMER SLUMP. WOULD THE SEED GERMINATE AND GROW OR WOULD THE LAST OF SOIL CONNECTION CAUSE IT TO WITHER SHORTLY. JUST A THOUGHT, SEEMS LIKE A LOW COST ALTERNATIVE.

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED TO NO-TILL BMR INTO EXISTING GRASS STANDS THAT HAVE BEEN GRAZED INTO THE GROUND. LIMITED SUCCESS, BUT NOT MUCH. SPEND MORE TIME WORRYING ABOUT PRUSSIC ACID. MOST OF MY SOIL IS TOO ROCKY TO TO TILL OR RUN A DRILL OVER. BEEN FROST SEEDING CLOVER FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS WITH SOME SUCCESS, BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO INCREASE MY SUMMER OUTPUT.

THANKS

 

[grannysoo]

Cap key stuck?

I have fed clover seeds in minerals. Looks like it's working for me.

 

[kerley]

Grannysoo, I read your post this morning and it sounds like it might work for me. Do you just mix some seed in the loose mineral tub and let the cows do the rest? Tom :cboy:

 

[dun]

I don;t think the softer seeds of most grasses would pass through intact enough to germinate. Soon would of course, but I don;t think enough would to be beneficial. Clover with it's harder seed coating will. Alfalfa may, but with the propertys that they have of a plant preventing other plants becoming established very close it would seem that it would be a waste of expensive seed.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

i wonder if the salt would destroy alot of the seeds too?

 

[grannysoo]

I have never used soft seeds, but the girls have spread clover all over the place. And yes, just mix a quart or so of them with 50 pounds of minerals and let 'em rip.

 

[dun]

The only problem with feeding the clover seed in the mineral might be if there wasn;t any clover there before. The seed wouldn;t be inoculated so wouldn;t be very effective fixing nitrogen. Another one of those I may be wrong but it seems logical to me.

 

[john250]

I'll bet that you have a huge seedbank of clover. Soiltest, and create an environment to favor clover and forget about buying seed, except if you want a "new" clover variety.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Could put Lespadezzar seed in the mineral its a hard seed.

 

[pdfangus]

I put a lot fo raw horse manure in my vegetable beds this spring and it is mazing the variety of things that are germinating directly out of the horse buscuits.

clover, bermudagrass, weeds, rye grass.

I was hand grazing my mare last might and was suprised at the number of weeds she selected.
Now this was on a grass patch that was mowed with the lawn mower set pretty high about two weeks ago just to top it.

I might give the lespedeza idea a try.

 

[dun]

I put a lot fo raw horse manure in my vegetable beds this spring and it is mazing the variety of things that are germinating directly out of the horse buscuits.

clover, bermudagrass, weeds, rye grass.

I was hand grazing my mare last might and was suprised at the number of weeds she selected.
Now this was on a grass patch that was mowed with the lawn mower set pretty high about two weeks ago just to top it.

I might give the lespedeza idea a try.

You'll get a lot more seeds germinate after going through a horse then you will through a cow. Ruminant stomach vs single stomach. Had a neighbor that fed his show horses a lot of oats. He didn;t have a place to spread the manure so I let him spread it in a couple of back pastures that had poor soil. Ended up with a very nice stand of oats that the cows really enjoyed

 

[pdfangus]

I put a lot fo raw horse manure in my vegetable beds this spring and it is mazing the variety of things that are germinating directly out of the horse buscuits.

clover, bermudagrass, weeds, rye grass.

I was hand grazing my mare last might and was suprised at the number of weeds she selected.
Now this was on a grass patch that was mowed with the lawn mower set pretty high about two weeks ago just to top it.

I might give the lespedeza idea a try.

You'll get a lot more seeds germinate after going through a horse then you will through a cow. Ruminant stomach vs single stomach. Had a neighbor that fed his show horses a lot of oats. He didn;t have a place to spread the manure so I let him spread it in a couple of back pastures that had poor soil. Ended up with a very nice stand of oats that the cows really enjoyed

Only trouble is I have one horse and one mule and two mini donks and they have all adopted the donkey habit of stockpiled crapping. the preferrred place to stockpile is in the stable. I usually compost what I take ou tof the stable which would defeat the purpose of putting seed in.

cows would be much more efficient at distribution while less effecient in processing.