Post by Bob on Dec 2, 2021 11:45:14 GMT -6
Lots of fancy buzzwords out there lately. Grain cropping, cover cropping, relay cropping etc. I'm creating another: Pre-cropping
I'm looking to speed along the humification of my clay glob I'm now growing upon. I'm also always looking for tonnage rule breakers. Enter this stuff.
It takes upwards of 90 days to get a seed head, but I've gotta mow everything off on August first to make way for barley and wheat. I know I will get 50-90 frost free days after August 1st, so it may make it, it may not (seed heads that is). If it doesn't, I suspect the deer will come back late and take the foliage. Given I've got a tight window to deliver the barley and wheat crop, and other things, I can't adjust the mow-date to accomodate anything else.
What I'm intending to try is planting the Sorghum around June 15th, and mow it all off August 1st anyway when the rest goes in, and see if I can't get to a shorter plant that still heads out and will stand in the snow.
I'm looking to speed along the humification of my clay glob I'm now growing upon. I'm also always looking for tonnage rule breakers. Enter this stuff.
It takes upwards of 90 days to get a seed head, but I've gotta mow everything off on August first to make way for barley and wheat. I know I will get 50-90 frost free days after August 1st, so it may make it, it may not (seed heads that is). If it doesn't, I suspect the deer will come back late and take the foliage. Given I've got a tight window to deliver the barley and wheat crop, and other things, I can't adjust the mow-date to accomodate anything else.
What I'm intending to try is planting the Sorghum around June 15th, and mow it all off August 1st anyway when the rest goes in, and see if I can't get to a shorter plant that still heads out and will stand in the snow.
