Cover Crops 3.0

[WestCorkBoy]

It was some left over from last year.

Summer cover
Mustard 2.5
Tillage radish 3
Phacelia 1
Buckwheat 6
12.5kg/Ha
2 Ha pack


Winter Cover
Tillage Radish 4
Phacelia 2
Buckwheat 4
Linseed 2
Balansa clover 0.5
12.5kg/Ha
2 Ha pack

Where are you buying that?

 

[Blackwater boy]

The dairymans direct drill

 

[Masseyrk662]

Can’t remember if I asked this before or not but does anyone graze sheep on tillage raddish, one field I cannot subsoil due to badly placed water pipes 30 years ago could do with a bit of light compaction removal

 

[Ugo Schtiglitz]

Can’t remember if I asked this before or not but does anyone graze sheep on tillage raddish, one field I cannot subsoil due to badly placed water pipes 30 years ago could do with a bit of light compaction removal

Yah, they eat it here anyway

 

[Hardysplicer]

Where are you buying that?

A reputable source that right @Bog Man

 

[Bog Man]

A reputable source that right @Bog Man

Only the Best and delivered in a plain white van.
Unlike the time during the Recession we bought furniture in Brown Thomas and gave the driver wrong directions so he had to go around the parish asking for directions to our house.

 

[nashmach]

The dairymans direct drill View attachment 81022 View attachment 81023 View attachment 81024

Is that just one run of the Vibroflex? Or is it done with a Carrier or similar?

 

[Blackwater boy]

Is that just one run of the Vibroflex? Or is it done with a Carrier or similar?

A light run At about 10k With the grubber, worked fine the last 4 years

 

[Blackwater boy]

Expert level stuff

 

[Bog Man]

My second best Cover Crop.

 

[nashmach]

View attachment 81299
Expert level stuff

You'll be wearing sandals next....

 

[Masseyrk662]

In with the pig slurry again before the tillage radish

 

[Blackwater boy]

In with the pig slurry again before the tillage radish

Is it just straight radish your putting in

 

[Masseyrk662]

Is it just straight radish your putting in

Was going to mix in rape

 

[Masseyrk662]

Done the same setup as @Blackwater boy today, one bag to the acre of 24-2.5-10 along with tillage radish, stubble turnip and rape, it’s a savage dry day here but ground is very wet since yesterday, rest of week is promissed even worse so I just said I’d throw it out to hell, hopefully it grows

 

[Blackwater boy]

Done the same setup as @Blackwater boy today, one bag to the acre of 24-2.5-10 along with tillage radish, stubble turnip and rape, it’s a savage dry day here but ground is very wet since yesterday, rest of week is promissed even worse so I just said I’d throw it out to hell, hopefully it grows

I sowed some more cover crops and fodder rape in anothe field the same way last Friday abc never go it rolled but it will be fine with all the rain once slugs don’t take it

 

[Blackwater boy]

Anyone else have cover crops gone from slugs?

 

[no name]

The only diet my slugs have at the moment is a combination of loose straw and bale's of straw

 

[Masseyrk662]

What’s the best thing to put in this late in yer opinions ?

 

[Sheebadog]

What’s the best thing to put in this late in yer opinions ?

Clover and vetch.

 

[Masseyrk662]

Rape, radish and turnips now sown 3 weeks with the fertiliser spreader that time, never got to roll it but looks okayish

 

[Bog Man]

Cover crop after the Oats.
mustard ,Tillage radish ,phacelia ,Buckwheats.

 

[KTM 450]

That’s a massive crop @Bog Man , I planted mine on 11th August after Winter barley and it’s similar to Masseys photos above. I am surprised as growing conditions should be good, good heat and plenty(too fekin much) moisture.

 

[Bog Man]

Getting a bit of depth in a few weeks. I might spray it off next week and sow before the rain starts again.



The oats are able to kill off the cover crop

 

[Masseyrk662]

Raddish roots approx 4 inches deep. “There’s no piece of steel on this planet that can do the tilling that a cover crop can “