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Post by Freeborn on May 20, 2022 18:29:47 GMT -6
This thread indicates 2021 but I thought I would put this question here. Has anybody in the north started planting beans yet? What are soil temperatures looking like? I was thinking of planting this weekend but with the cold temperatures I am questioning if I should plant this weekend or wait. It is already late in the season but I have had germination problems from soil temperatures in the past. Temps like this explains why allot of farmers in the north don't use no-till. In my situation I have corn stalks and rye on my fields so I am thinking the soil is pretty cold. Can you get early maturing beans? I would wait to plant beans personally. Lows of 33-36 next two mornings Thanks, that’s what I am thinking. I’m going to chop stalks and shallow root-till this weekend. I see next week we have some temps in the 70 so I will plant on memorial weekend. With my soil exposed it should warm up and hopefully these temps in the 30’s go away. I already have my seed so I’ll go with what I have. It might be a cool summer, we’re kind of due for one. I hope we get consistent rain, it sure makes us plotters look good.
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Post by Freeborn on May 20, 2022 18:33:02 GMT -6
Thank you for the link. I see it specifies bare soil temps. I have corn stalks standing and rye planted so I would think my soil temps will be considerably lower than bare soil.
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Post by biglakebass on May 20, 2022 19:54:20 GMT -6
My 2021 fall planted rye is now a foot tall. I planted an acre of clover with oats for cover crop a couple weekends ago. Nice that a bag of oats is now 20 bucks after tax. Oh well. Chose to stay home this weekend with the temps and wind. BLB is a fair weather fisherman now days. Well, and we plan to get a shit ton done at home this weekend because we will be gone the next 4 weekends.
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Post by Freeborn on May 21, 2022 4:09:27 GMT -6
^ Smart thinking, I’m just headed up and I have along a winter coat, long underwear, winter hat and gloves. There is something wrong with this picture.
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Post by leexrayshady on Sept 23, 2022 4:22:29 GMT -6
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 23, 2022 4:35:39 GMT -6
interesting. Will it act as a beneficial snowfence or too close to the driveway?
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 23, 2022 4:36:19 GMT -6
interesting. Will it act as a beneficial snowfence or too close to the driveway? Did it take lots of fertilizer?
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Post by leexrayshady on Sept 23, 2022 5:27:17 GMT -6
I didnt add any fertilizer, however Im sure it got a lot of benefit from when the farmer put his fert down for the corn, The directions that come with the seed sound very similar to when doing brassicas. Art not sure if it will act as a snow fence or not, it is on the south side of the driveway so who knows maybe it will hurt when it comes to snow on the driveway.
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Post by daydreamer on Sept 23, 2022 6:27:43 GMT -6
Holy shit, that looks great. How did you plant?
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Post by leexrayshady on Sept 23, 2022 12:02:27 GMT -6
Holy shit, that looks great. How did you plant? Farmer, worked up the ground then I broadcasted, dragged and cultipack
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Post by leexrayshady on Sept 23, 2022 12:04:02 GMT -6
This was a guy on the Northwoods fb page I'm sure he was from down south somewhere
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Post by honker on Oct 16, 2022 15:28:08 GMT -6
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 16, 2022 16:14:44 GMT -6
That looks great! Is it an acre?
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Post by honker on Oct 16, 2022 20:52:16 GMT -6
That looks great! Is it an acre? Thanks. It’s an acre overall. The brassicas are 2/3 of it and clover/rye is the rest
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 16, 2022 20:56:40 GMT -6
Killer looking spot.... no pun intended.
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