Reseeding Thread 2014

td5man

Greengrass1 wrote: »

I'm very happy with the grass I sowed this spring that had those first two and tyrella in.
Ye I'd use it. Should be as good

I sowed that mix with tyrella instead of the clanrye, very happy with it.

Greengrass1

td5man wrote: »

I sowed that mix with tyrella instead of the clanrye, very happy with it.

Ye I've grazed mine every two weeks since sowing.
Going to sow more of it

razor8

Will be overseeding next week, anyone recommend a good mixture for sheep pasture, went with a Kilkenny mix last year from mcguinness's and happy enough but wondering if anything else out there

just do it

just do it wrote: »

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It's filling out alright, but with a lot of weed!



so it got post-emergence 6d ago, oversown last night and a bag of 10-10-20.

Will graze in 5 days

just do it

But it's not all bad

I said

just do it wrote: »

But it's not all bad

Fair play lovely looking job

just do it

just do it wrote: »

Pictures from a reseed that was broadcast on June 3rd.









This field was last reseeded when farm machinery was fuelled by hay and not diesel! A lot of weed and not productive. Has gotten lime, slurry and fertiliser and soil indices are good so time for a reseed.

Sprayed it off with gallup, grazed it 5 days later. Chain harrowed x3, 13kg seed/ac spread in 2 passes with wagtail, 10-10-20 x2/ac, 1,500gl slurry. Patchy growth is my fault as I overestimated spread width. Also my first pass with seed got wet and made a balls out of spreading it.

Any suggestions as to fixing the patchiness? I'm thinking post-emergence spray now and graze as soon after that as I can. Then spread seed where it's bare, fertilise and bale it 6-7 weeks later.

Went with my plan and it's working out :




Closed now for a quick cut of silage in 3-4 weeks.