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<blockquote data-quote="Stepper" data-source="post: 396533" data-attributes="member: 3398"><p>Gphillips,</p><p></p><p>This is what i would do if i were going to etablish some new grass.</p><p></p><p>1. The first thing would be to take soil samples and go talk with your local extention agent. He can tell you what grass does the best in your area and how much tonage per acre each will produce.(And all the good/bad points each grass has)</p><p></p><p>2. Then as soon as i got my soil samples back and i had decided on which grass i was going to establish. At the end of the summer spray the whole feild with round up and kill all the existing grass out. Then i would take and plow the whole palce up about a foot deep. Then disc it up really good.</p><p></p><p>3. Then i would plant it with sometype of winter grass just to keep from losing the top soil to errosion or wind. You can also use it for early grazing next Spring.</p><p></p><p>4. Then i would do what my soil samples recommended doing. But with your land already being crop land. It probalby wont be much. However if it does need any lime to get the ph level right on it. They tell me it takes about six months for lime to change the ph level. So you would want to get it limed this fall to have it ready to sprig by next Spring.</p><p></p><p>5. So now you have your pasture land all prepared sort of like preparing a garden ready to be planted. It has all the unwanted grass killed out, the ph level is where it needs to be for the type of grass you have decided to establish. </p><p></p><p>6. The next thing to do is to pick the right time to sprig your grass. And on bemuda grass that is a critical time.( Ideal time for your area i would guess would be the last week of April or first of May.) If you sprig to soon and it stays cold and wet on the new sprigs to long they rot. If you sprig to late you miss out on alot of the Spring rain that a newly spriged feild needs to make it.</p><p></p><p>7. Now about 2 weeks before you decide to plant your feild spray it again with round up and kill everything out again. Then just a couple of days before planting time disc it under as deep as you can. Make the whole feild powder. </p><p></p><p>8. Now a cheaper way to plant the feild is to take a utility trailer and let the guy your buying the sprigs off of load them right onto the trailer. And get 4 or 5 people on the trailer, pull onto the feild and let them start scattering the sprigs by hand. Kind of look at it like a checker board pattern but only with 10' x 10' squares on the board. Cover a square, skip a square. This way the skipped squares will grow (or fill in by spreading) This method of planting a feild is called broad casting.</p><p></p><p>9. Now after you get all of the sprigs scattered. Take your disc and go lightly over the feild just enough to lightly cover your sprigs( a couple inches will be fine) Dont burry them deep though.</p><p></p><p>10. If it were me i would not use chicken litter on sprigs that are just tring to get established.( It is to rich and would probably burn the new sprigs up) So use a light application of amonia nitrate ( 150 lbs to the acre) that will put alot of nitrogen in the soil and make the sprigs take root and start putting out runners. Check with your extenison agent to make sure on the amonia nitrate application.</p><p></p><p>11. Last but not least give me a call 2 weeks before deer season and give me a rut report on the deer activity going on near and arround the newly sprigged feild. Then that way i can come watch the feild for the first week of deer season each year and give you pointers on what you need to do to keep the maintance of the feild up for maximum production. And i will need to shoot a few deer(peferribly mature 5 to 8 year old trophy bucks) each year to check their stomach contents to make sure they are not eating to much of the newly established grass. 8)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stepper, post: 396533, member: 3398"] Gphillips, This is what i would do if i were going to etablish some new grass. 1. The first thing would be to take soil samples and go talk with your local extention agent. He can tell you what grass does the best in your area and how much tonage per acre each will produce.(And all the good/bad points each grass has) 2. Then as soon as i got my soil samples back and i had decided on which grass i was going to establish. At the end of the summer spray the whole feild with round up and kill all the existing grass out. Then i would take and plow the whole palce up about a foot deep. Then disc it up really good. 3. Then i would plant it with sometype of winter grass just to keep from losing the top soil to errosion or wind. You can also use it for early grazing next Spring. 4. Then i would do what my soil samples recommended doing. But with your land already being crop land. It probalby wont be much. However if it does need any lime to get the ph level right on it. They tell me it takes about six months for lime to change the ph level. So you would want to get it limed this fall to have it ready to sprig by next Spring. 5. So now you have your pasture land all prepared sort of like preparing a garden ready to be planted. It has all the unwanted grass killed out, the ph level is where it needs to be for the type of grass you have decided to establish. 6. The next thing to do is to pick the right time to sprig your grass. And on bemuda grass that is a critical time.( Ideal time for your area i would guess would be the last week of April or first of May.) If you sprig to soon and it stays cold and wet on the new sprigs to long they rot. If you sprig to late you miss out on alot of the Spring rain that a newly spriged feild needs to make it. 7. Now about 2 weeks before you decide to plant your feild spray it again with round up and kill everything out again. Then just a couple of days before planting time disc it under as deep as you can. Make the whole feild powder. 8. Now a cheaper way to plant the feild is to take a utility trailer and let the guy your buying the sprigs off of load them right onto the trailer. And get 4 or 5 people on the trailer, pull onto the feild and let them start scattering the sprigs by hand. Kind of look at it like a checker board pattern but only with 10' x 10' squares on the board. Cover a square, skip a square. This way the skipped squares will grow (or fill in by spreading) This method of planting a feild is called broad casting. 9. Now after you get all of the sprigs scattered. Take your disc and go lightly over the feild just enough to lightly cover your sprigs( a couple inches will be fine) Dont burry them deep though. 10. If it were me i would not use chicken litter on sprigs that are just tring to get established.( It is to rich and would probably burn the new sprigs up) So use a light application of amonia nitrate ( 150 lbs to the acre) that will put alot of nitrogen in the soil and make the sprigs take root and start putting out runners. Check with your extenison agent to make sure on the amonia nitrate application. 11. Last but not least give me a call 2 weeks before deer season and give me a rut report on the deer activity going on near and arround the newly sprigged feild. Then that way i can come watch the feild for the first week of deer season each year and give you pointers on what you need to do to keep the maintance of the feild up for maximum production. And i will need to shoot a few deer(peferribly mature 5 to 8 year old trophy bucks) each year to check their stomach contents to make sure they are not eating to much of the newly established grass. 8) [/QUOTE]
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