Cornflowers

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I tried to grow cornflowers, direct drilling them into winter barley stubble with chopped straw. A big mistake, the mat of straw acted as a mulch and killed all the cornflowers and all other seedlings as well.
Only a few cornflowers grew were the drill double tilled the ground on the overlap at the top and bottom headlands.

 

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The big machines are busy and not near by so a bit smaller but none the less still effective.

 

[kverneland es 80]

fab example ,haven't seen one in years ,known as a fiddle down around here

 

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A patchwork field because of the mistakes.

Marjoram and Trefoil in a 6M margin by the school.

Winter cornflowers and poppies in a band.

 

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Resowed cornflowers in the centre of the field with the fiddle and rolled it in.

 

[guest 1]

The big machines are busy and not near by so a bit smaller but none the less still effective.
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There's one the very same as that at home, I sowed numerous lawns with it and it would still get use sowing grass seeds in poached sections of fields after a few belts of the chain harrow.

 

[nashmach]

Is this new rotation for that field gone?!!

Cornflowers following poppies!

 

[nashmach]

Winter wheat in 11/12, followed by WOSR (complete failure allowing poppies flourish and http://www.wildflowers.ie/ bought the seed) in 12/13, followed by Winter Barley in 13/14, followed by Poppies (deliberately grown this time) in 14/15, followed by Winter Barley in 15/16, followed by my attempts to grow cornflowers this year

There won't be many able to beat that for diversity!

The Gordon roller is a lovely roller too.

 

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The first of the Autumn sown Cornflowers are just coming into flower.

 

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@CORK
Is this what I fear it is?

 

[ithastopay]

Japanese knotweed?

 

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Japanese knotweed?

Sorry, not the broad leaf weeds, they are poppies, it is the grass weed I wanted to identify.

 

[ithastopay]

Sorry, not the broad leaf weeds, they are poppies, it is the grass weed I wanted to identify.[/QUOTE

No need to be, I'll just have to buy myself a mars bar..

 

[Blackwater boy]

@CORK
Is this what I fear it is?
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Oh Shite......

 

[Bog Man]

We may put a ring of steel around Ballon . How do you call out the FCA .

 

[Cork]

We may put a ring of steel around Ballon . How do you call out the FCA .

I see why you think it might be Blackgrass but to be honest I'm not convinced it is. Granted it has lots of space but it looks a bit strong to be that weed. Any blackgrass I've come across (Ive seen 3 Irish cases) also seems to be more slender and more well tillered than that.

It's hard to get exact scale looking at the picture. A proper diagnosis by a local professional would be advisable. Sooner rather than later before @Bog Man calls in a drone strike.

 

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I see why you think it might be Blackgrass but to be honest I'm not convinced it is. Granted it has lots of space but it looks a bit strong to be that weed. Any blackgrass I've come across (Ive seen 3 Irish cases) also seems to be more slender and more well tillered than that.

It's hard to get exact scale looking at the picture. A proper diagnosis by a local professional would be advisable. Sooner rather than later before @Bog Man calls in a drone strike.

It looks too robust and short to me.
I will rogue and the field is going to get a graminicide.

 

[Cork]

It looks too robust and short to me.
I will rogue and the field is going to get a graminicide.

Also, just thinking that any BG that I've seen wouldn't have been eared out by now.

 

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Also, just thinking that any BG that I've seen wouldn't have been eared out by now.

It came in a grass seed mix from a few years ago.

 

[Blackwater boy]

It looks too robust and short to me.
I will rogue and the field is going to get a graminicide.

Would the lack of competition around it not have an impact on its height?
Any chance it's some sort of wild grass along the lines of a cocks foot or Timothy or some sort?

 

[Cork]

are there many plants of it there? If wild flowers were planted then it could have come with them.

 

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are there many plants of it there? If wild flowers were planted then it could have come with them.

I only found one, wild flower seed per se was not sown. I sowed Cornflowers but mixed it with old grass seed I had left lying around, the Cornflowers were grown from a few hand picked plants so I doubt it was in them. Either way I will hand rogue that plant and the field will be sprayed.

 

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Would the lack of competition around it not have an impact on its height?
Any chance it's some sort of wild grass along the lines of a cocks foot or Timothy or some sort?

Think it might be meadow foxtail.

 

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Sprayed the field with a graminicide and rogued the plant.

 

[Cork]

Sprayed the field with a graminicide and rogued the plant.
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keep an eye on the activity of the graminicide. If it is Blackgrass then there's also a chance that it's resistant to fops and dims....