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Post by Sandbur on Jun 6, 2023 12:56:23 GMT -6
I am surely not firing up a mower for clover until something big changes. Sucks, I have around an acre tilled that never got planted yet..... Turnips, radishes, and rye in about 50 days?
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Post by badgerfowl on Jun 6, 2023 13:10:34 GMT -6
I am surely not firing up a mower for clover until something big changes. Sucks, I have around an acre tilled that never got planted yet..... Turnips, radishes, and rye in about 50 days? I'll probably do my brassicas in about 55-60. Going to Colorado from Aug 5-12 so that kind of screws up my prime brassica window. I'll plant before if it looks like rain is imminent. After if it looks dry.
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 6, 2023 13:20:54 GMT -6
I am surely not firing up a mower for clover until something big changes. Sucks, I have around an acre tilled that never got planted yet..... Turnips, radishes, and rye in about 50 days? Yep!
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Post by smsmith on Jul 7, 2023 12:10:54 GMT -6
I had a bunch of annual grasses and smartweed coming on strong in my north plots. I don't expect a great kill due to the drought, but I hit those plots with cleth and butyrac today. I've always sprayed them separately, because that's what you're supposed to do. We'll find out if it works or not. I also added 3 qts of liquid AMS and 8 oz. of surfactant.
Then, I moved on to my creek plot. That's a plot where I've been running a Fixation/brassica rotation. There's lots of Fixation out there, but there's also a lot of weeds and grasses. I nuked that with 2 qt./acre glyphosate, 3 qts. liquid AMS, and 8 oz. surfactant. I think I'll mow it off in a week or so, then see if the weather pattern has changed any. I'll likely spray it again and then broadcast brassicas and Fixation sometime in late July/early August.
Sure be nice if we'd get a rainy late July/early August...
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Post by smsmith on Jul 7, 2023 19:00:43 GMT -6
I had a bunch of annual grasses and smartweed coming on strong in my north plots. I don't expect a great kill due to the drought, but I hit those plots with cleth and butyrac today. I've always sprayed them separately, because that's what you're supposed to do. We'll find out if it works or not. I also added 3 qts of liquid AMS and 8 oz. of surfactant. Then, I moved on to my creek plot. That's a plot where I've been running a Fixation/brassica rotation. There's lots of Fixation out there, but there's also a lot of weeds and grasses. I nuked that with 2 qt./acre glyphosate, 3 qts. liquid AMS, and 8 oz. surfactant. I think I'll mow it off in a week or so, then see if the weather pattern has changed any. I'll likely spray it again and then broadcast brassicas and Fixation sometime in late July/early August. Sure be nice if we'd get a rainy late July/early August... Got about 6-7 hours without rain for the cleth/butyrac. Cleth is good to go at an hour, but butyrac is listed at 6 hours before a rain. Edit...no big deal. Less than .1" rain isn't going to wash off any herbicides
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Post by daydreamer on Jul 7, 2023 21:11:27 GMT -6
I had a bunch of annual grasses and smartweed coming on strong in my north plots. I don't expect a great kill due to the drought, but I hit those plots with cleth and butyrac today. I've always sprayed them separately, because that's what you're supposed to do. We'll find out if it works or not. I also added 3 qts of liquid AMS and 8 oz. of surfactant. Then, I moved on to my creek plot. That's a plot where I've been running a Fixation/brassica rotation. There's lots of Fixation out there, but there's also a lot of weeds and grasses. I nuked that with 2 qt./acre glyphosate, 3 qts. liquid AMS, and 8 oz. surfactant. I think I'll mow it off in a week or so, then see if the weather pattern has changed any. I'll likely spray it again and then broadcast brassicas and Fixation sometime in late July/early August. Sure be nice if we'd get a rainy late July/early August... Do you hunt over your creek plot? Only asking a you’re kind of pot committed on nuking your plot hoping for rain…
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Post by smsmith on Jul 8, 2023 7:28:22 GMT -6
I had a bunch of annual grasses and smartweed coming on strong in my north plots. I don't expect a great kill due to the drought, but I hit those plots with cleth and butyrac today. I've always sprayed them separately, because that's what you're supposed to do. We'll find out if it works or not. I also added 3 qts of liquid AMS and 8 oz. of surfactant. Then, I moved on to my creek plot. That's a plot where I've been running a Fixation/brassica rotation. There's lots of Fixation out there, but there's also a lot of weeds and grasses. I nuked that with 2 qt./acre glyphosate, 3 qts. liquid AMS, and 8 oz. surfactant. I think I'll mow it off in a week or so, then see if the weather pattern has changed any. I'll likely spray it again and then broadcast brassicas and Fixation sometime in late July/early August. Sure be nice if we'd get a rainy late July/early August... Do you hunt over your creek plot? Only asking a you’re kind of pot committed on nuking your plot hoping for rain… I've got a shot or two over the creek plot, but the blind is on the other side of the creek. I haven't hunted that box blind for a couple years now. Deer will use that spot whether the weeds filll back in or the clover/brassicas do. It's an opening in an otherwise jungle of cover.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 11, 2024 12:55:46 GMT -6
I spread 400 lbs of pell lime with the Solo spreader on about a 1/2 acre plot of weedy clover on the north end of my place today. I had forgotten how much "fun" it is to do that job. I'm getting old
I'll have to go back on this thread a few pages to see, but I if I recall correctly I put a few hundred lbs of gypsum on this same plot not too long ago. Maybe in '22. There shouldn't be any antlers lacking in calcium around here.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 12, 2024 7:38:25 GMT -6
I spread clover and chicory seed into an existing weedy cover plot in Iowa. I think it will help some! Turkeys are in it !
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