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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

I agree that Moon is correct in looking toward pasture. In creating
pasture, does anyone on the list have experience in converting land to
pasture in which brambles have taken hold?

I've plowed up two fields that I'd like to eventually put to pasture.
One is an acre and a half. I planted it to oats and crimson clover.
The other is 3/4 acre. I planted to buckwheat. Both should be ready
for me to disk and reseed to buckwheat and some other stuff this
summer.

I just walked back there this morning and see a lot of brambles coming
up. I'm hoping that whacking them with the disk in a month or so,
again in August and again in Sept/Oct. will make them very weak for
winter.

Brambles come back from the root and plowing and disking just chop up
the roots and make more starts. Hopefully frequently killing them back
will weaken them and they will die in winter.

Any thoughts?

Moon, are those tillable acres full of brambles :>)

Rob - Va