Reseeding and poor land

Conmaicne Mara

just do it wrote: »

Lime. Some points.
Is that note limestone land you have? Also lime at time of reseed is important for neutralising the acid generated by decaying vegetation. If you've it grazed very tight by sheep this will minimise decaying vegetation and you may well get away with 2 bags/ac of ground lime broadcast at same time as seed.

Not on limestone here, granite with some quartz thrown in for variety.

My initial area, where I feed the ewes pre lambing, will be that tightly grazed you could play marbles on it. That was part of the reason I thought of it. The other reason is that I would also have it out of rotation (you know what I mean, I have no fancy rotations yet) at that time to recover so it'd be no immediate loss to the operation in Spring/early Summer.

I had read that about liming to counter act the acid effect of dying plants, also to spread a bag of 0-7-30 per acre with it.

just do it

I know it's still a good bit off but what's your plan of action at this stage?

Conmaicne Mara

Bought some seed last night, lack of sleep impulse buy. Feel free to set me right if I have messed up.

3.4kg Glenveagh
3.4kg Soriento
3.4kg Piccadilly
1.2kg Timothy
0.6kg White clover, can't remember which variety at the moment!

1. Burn off the grass, let sheep into it as the tips are turning purple to graze it down.
2. Spread 3 bags gran lime to the acre (doing two acres) after sheep let out.

(Same day)
3. Spread seed, chain harrow, spread 2 bags 10-10-20 / acre.
4. Roll.

Or should I wait for germination before spreading the fert? It's not sinking in to my head too well

Just want to have the steps clear and right in my head now.

moy83

Will you need to give many runs of the chain harrow to tear up the ground ? If its going to take a few I wouldn't put out the seed until the before the last run of the harrow .

Did you buy the seed on line ? If so where and what much was it ?

Conmaicne Mara

moy83 wrote: »

Will you need to give many runs of the chain harrow to tear up the ground ? If its going to take a few I wouldn't put out the seed until the before the last run of the harrow .

Did you buy the seed on line ? If so where and what much was it ?

I have no idea, never done this before, not even got the harrow yet

I did, seedirect maybe? It was mentioned on one of these threads, cost around €130 inc delivery but I got enough for two acres which is more than listed above.

munkus

Old pastures have a serious root system. We disc harrowed a rough enough field a few years ago that was let out in the 70s when it was bulldozed. Took weeks for the vegetation grass/roots to die down and break up. Weather broke and we had to leave it until the following spring. Well broken up at that stage. Only problem was some native grasses and weeds came back and we should have sprayed again. Few runs of the harrow and it came up fine though. Good field now.

moy83

Will you need to give many runs of the chain harrow to tear up the ground ? If its going to take a few I wouldn't put out the seed until the before the last run of the harrow .

Did you buy the seed on line ? If so where and what much was it ?

Conmaicne Mara

Chain harrow arrived today. First thing the ould fella said, a quad won't pull that! I hope to prove him wrong, it is heavier than I expected, anyway, will give it a lash when everything comes together. Got it from chainharrowsireland, no connection to them but was talking to Paddy there for a fair while Thursday evening, very nice fella.

And yeah, I know it's upside down before some smartarse says

bogman_bass

my brother designed that website

td5man

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Chain harrow arrived today. First thing the ould fella said, a quad won't pull that! I hope to prove him wrong, it is heavier than I expected, anyway, will give it a lash when everything comes together. Got it from chainharrowsireland, no connection to them but was talking to Paddy there for a fair while Thursday evening, very nice fella.

And yeah, I know it's upside down before some smartarse says

Paddy wouldn't be very talkative, hope you didn't mention horses. ☺

Conmaicne Mara

td5man wrote: »

Paddy wouldn't be very talkative, hope you didn't mention horses. ☺

No I couldn't get a word out of him

Horses? Don't think so, they wouldn't be too popular with me :pac: