Time to take it to another level.
Never seen anything like this years covers. Sunflowers and clover are growing for sport all over the place. Tramlines, headlands everything coming perfectly. Usually these fair weather feckers don’t play ball all. Think we can get to maybe 15 species if we put a bit more effort in next year.
Thinking of taking out barley volunteers in a few place where we are going in with a second winter barley, wheat or winter oats. One reason the thick mat of barley behind combine won’t be nice for any of the above to prosper in and 2 there’s plenty of virus on volunteers. Other option is to round up all off in about 2/3 weeks and let it all die away but I’d rather just kill the barley and let the green goodness go on for longer.
With all this diversity in the mix I can’t see how any single soil bourne disease will thrive. Legumes, brassiae, grasses, whatever the hell linseed, sunflower and phacelia are will I’m betting confuse the soil into thinking all is well
Never seen anything like this years covers. Sunflowers and clover are growing for sport all over the place. Tramlines, headlands everything coming perfectly. Usually these fair weather feckers don’t play ball all. Think we can get to maybe 15 species if we put a bit more effort in next year.
Thinking of taking out barley volunteers in a few place where we are going in with a second winter barley, wheat or winter oats. One reason the thick mat of barley behind combine won’t be nice for any of the above to prosper in and 2 there’s plenty of virus on volunteers. Other option is to round up all off in about 2/3 weeks and let it all die away but I’d rather just kill the barley and let the green goodness go on for longer.
With all this diversity in the mix I can’t see how any single soil bourne disease will thrive. Legumes, brassiae, grasses, whatever the hell linseed, sunflower and phacelia are will I’m betting confuse the soil into thinking all is well
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