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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:55:06 +0100

Any grain or seed that we lay on top of the soil here can be forgotten about Debbie. Birds and rodents will have the lot. I remember planting over 6 thousand peas and see just one plant come up quickly to be destroyed when a rodent noticed the oversight and went for the pea still attached to the young plant.
We pre- sprout most of our crops in seed trays in the green house these days and plant out well established seedlings. One advantage of this is that you can clean up a plot with the hoe and immediately plant after.
 
However, it is possible to sow in the open and then cover oat seed with compost, straw, wood shavings or even black plastic (the last one you need to remove quickly once germination gets going.)
john
 
 
 
 

I am wanting to plant some oats as a crop? to make hay for my animals next year. The barley is all gone already:( They said I HAVE to till and cover the seed, that it cannot lay on top like rye. I really hate this as that will bring a boat load of goat weed later in the year, really not nice. What are your opinions if you have any:)?  thank you, Deb



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