I bought aberace clover seed before Christmas @ €7.20/kg. I was asking here at the time if it would be safe to buy and store it. It wasn't delivered until mid january but came at that price. I made a plan for this year back last september and thankfully i bought all the seed i need in december. Aberace has gone to €12.30 since the mss scheme was announced but there's still some types of clover seed available at under €10/kg.
the more grant you got the higher the price the less you get
It was €8.20 per kg up to when they announced the mss scheme. Then they put 50% on it to bring it to the €12.30 that it is now.
No it was good advice. Clover seed shouldn't be buried.
You could always get a contractor with a barrow.....
Just in my reseed today aswell coming along nicely seeing the clover popping up too. Thought by chat the clover wouldn’t come up for a good while?
Once soil temps are right and there's moisture, clover will come up very fast.
It definitely came fast i sowed 2.5 bags/acre on Saturday and there was the odd shoot coming up.. went in today and was amazed how quickly it progressed on.
Do you think something like this would be better or have you got something else in mind
Yes, some type of tine harrow but I have a budget that won't stretch to a new one. Exploring options at the moment.Do you think something like this would be better or have you got something else in mind
I have a Kockerling tine harrow that hasn't been used in about 5 years that might suit you! Mainly used for an equine arena when it came here but not used at all anymore.
I have another option in the pipeline but if it doesn't work out in the next week I'll come back to you!
Place I bought grass seed off finally got back to me regarding the black seeds.. they are dormant chickory seeds apparently.
Used Gallup here worked just fine didn’t work on thistles near the wire tho maybe roundup would have worked better idk.
No difference imo at this time of year. At the shoulders of the year I think the dear roundup has better penetrant but now with heat in the day should be no difference
Spread dung on mine here be good for p&k was advised on here aswell as grass seed man to sow circa 2-3 bags fert/acre think it was something with high K?🤔 not to sure about the slurry I didn’t go on mine with slurry think there is something about slurry reducing clover quantity but maybe that is high volumes.
We’d normally put out 2-3 bags of 10:10:20 ahead of any reseed, normally aim for the full 3 but it sometimes get reduced a bit to get acreage to match to a big bag, so say if it was 8 acres we’d just go with 1 ton rather than looking for 4 small bags aswell. Unless we’ve somewhere else handy that could do with a bit And get 1.5ton
