[Homestead] How's your garden?

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Thu Apr 30 23:21:29 EDT 2009


WOW!


One year, I bought about 5 pounds, I think, and scattered it over the 
existing pasture grass...not much happened, but then it was over seeding 
grass, thinly scattered over 7 acres, and there was not much topsoil for 
new growth and seeding at that time.  Oh, and I have never limed the 
field, either.  Thanks for the lesson on how to do it right.

Bev

Robert Walton wrote:

>> BTW, Rob, that clover is beautiful.  If I might ask, how large is the
>> field, how much did you plant, where did you get the seed, and how much
>> did it cost?  Tilled? Disked? Hand broadcast? Drilled?
> 
> Here is what I did. It's about an acre and 1/3 or so.
> 
> For first crop after plowing it up and disking it off, broadcast oats
> and crimson clover March 2008 and disked it in. For no lime and no
> fertilizer, it grew OK. Clover bloomed. Oats made oats.
> 
> Goats ate that off. I ended up pasturing the field off to them last
> summer. Because of the drought, I didn't bother to plant another cover
> crop.
> 
> It was limed in August 2008
> 
> Come fall and rains, I decided to disk it up and plant back to a
> winter cover crop. Luckily, I noticed that there was a good growth of
> clover in the field. I decided to just leave it and see what happened.
> Fenced goats out.
> 
> Clover grew all winter very slowly. Grew like crazy come spring.
> 
> I think I put down 15# of clover seed the first planting. What you saw
> in the pictures is what came back from seed. Should make a nice plow
> down. I do believe that the lime helped a lot. Field was at ph of 5.4
> 3 years ago before it was tilled. Haven't tested it this year.
> 
> Rob - Va
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