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Post by leexrayshady on Mar 4, 2019 22:38:04 GMT -6
anybody heard of this before? overwintering brassica plant  |
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 5, 2019 5:35:00 GMT -6
I have had a few brassica of different types over winter and produce seed the second year. It has never been consistent, but less than 1 or 2 per cent.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 5, 2019 5:42:15 GMT -6
Its a weed to me, just like mustard.
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Post by wiscwhip on Mar 5, 2019 7:32:11 GMT -6
I'd be careful if it drops seed, shit can come back with a vengeance and then you have to spray to kill it, as opposed to just broadcasting oats into a dead brassica plot in the spring, or just top seeding rye in the brassica plot the fall before.
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Post by mnaaron on Mar 7, 2019 19:25:53 GMT -6
I am familiar with it and the professors at the U of M that are working on it. It is part of the Forever Green project at the U. What are your questions? Lots of promise since it can be planted with corn and germinates with full shade and then takes off after corn is harvested.
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Post by Freeborn on Mar 7, 2019 19:35:23 GMT -6
I am familiar with it and the professors at the U of M that are working on it. It is part of the Forever Green project at the U. What are your questions? Lots of promise since it can be planted with corn and germinates with full shade and then takes off after corn is harvested. At what leaf stage can you plant it without reducing yield? Does it germinate well with broadcasting? |
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Post by mnaaron on Mar 7, 2019 19:51:59 GMT -6
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Post by mnaaron on Mar 7, 2019 19:56:03 GMT -6
I am familiar with it and the professors at the U of M that are working on it. It is part of the Forever Green project at the U. What are your questions? Lots of promise since it can be planted with corn and germinates with full shade and then takes off after corn is harvested. At what leaf stage can you plant it without reducing yield? Does it germinate well with broadcasting? Jerry I am not sure if you can broadcast it or not. The profs always talk about drilling it in and it doesn’t have a market yet for farmers so I have listened but not paid close attention to the agronomic’s of it since still hard sell for cover crops. I will ask them next time I see them. |
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Post by mnaaron on Mar 7, 2019 19:59:19 GMT -6
They plant it in spring shortly after planting corn was my impression. I have never heard them talk about wildlife benefits or usage because they are not focused on it. Planted out west quite a bit I know and in Illinois or Indiana.
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