Westerworld

Waternotsoda · 24-02-2020 3:06pm #1

I have a heavily poached field. I was thinking of sowing westerwold, weather permitting the first week of march. Make silage last week of May.

I have not tried this before. Whats the best place to buy seed? Any other advice?

Bass Reeves · 24-02-2020 3:25pm

Waternotsoda wrote: »

I have a heavily poached field. I was thinking of sowing westerwold, weather permitting the first week of march. Make silage last week of May.

I have not tried this before. Whats the best place to buy seed? Any other advice?

Very unlikely you will be able to sow before early/midApril with present weather. Why not reseed

Waternotsoda · 24-02-2020 4:18pm

I don't think I'd get a cut of silage this year if I reseed.

Mooooo · 24-02-2020 4:28pm

Waternotsoda wrote: »

I don't think I'd get a cut of silage this year if I reseed.

Reseed And graze initially and you could cut after that. If you took two cuts after 6 weeks each you would have the same volume and twice the quality as a bulk cut. Key to feed a reseed as well

blue5000 · 24-02-2020 5:03pm

Undersow arable silage and cut it after 12 weeks, you'll have grazing as well after it. Westerwolds is only temporary anyway so you might as well just re-seed it once.

Gods Gift · 24-02-2020 6:48pm

People around here use half ordinary grass seed half westerworlds. So when westerworlds is grew out the other takes over.

But you shouldn’t sow grass seed in a month with a R in it.

Timmaay · 24-02-2020 9:04pm

Used westerwolds as a stopgap here in the maize ground during the drought of 2018, it was actually very slow to strike which was disappointing, you definitely need to leave the seed very close to the surface which I didn't. The sward itself wasn't bad, however if your going to be reseeding anyways I'd just be firing in the normal seed now and be done with it, you'll still get 2 good cuts off it across the summer once your not in a serious drought prone location.

Timmaay · 24-02-2020 9:05pm

Gods Gift wrote: »

People around here use half ordinary grass seed half westerworlds. So when westerworlds is grew out the other takes over.

But you shouldn’t sow grass seed in a month with a R in it.

All depends on location, August reseeds here can be a disaster if there is a late season drought, I much prefer waiting until Sept, and have many very successful October reseeds also!