bigbluegrass
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My question is: to seed or not to seed this spring? Let me give you a quick history. I bought this place in 2007, which was a very dry year here. It is 50+ acres total, about 20 acres is cleared. The guy before had 80 horses on here and pretty much grazed everything down to dirt. The next spring I was all fired up to get some seed down. I spent way too much on some high name seed. I put the seed down in the spring and most of it came up. Some grew, most didn't. I needed to let it get established a little more. I ended up with a OK stand, but nothing really great. 2008 and 2009 were descent years, but I think I had too many cows on the land. So I sold off half, of course before the price of cattle went up. Now this past year was really dry from July to November and very hot (not Texas hot, but hot for here). I sold a few more cows, just because. Everything was brown this fall. There doesn't look to be much of anything out there. We have been getting plenty of rain and snow the past few months. The ground is pretty mushy right now. It has been freezing and thawing on a regular basis. I did seed some annual rye last fall, but it didn't even sprout yet. It was just seeded in patches that were pretty bare. So do I start to plan on reseeding everything this spring? Or do I save my money and see what comes up? Seed a small area? Wait a few months and then seed a summer annual if the stand loss is high. The old pasture was a mix of about everything. I had a nice bit of white clover in there. Is it dead? There was some red clover as well. I will know what survived in a few months for sure, but I am trying to start planning what my next step should be. Should I have new seeds in the ground before I will know what all survived? Any ideas?