I planted roughly 2 acres with power plant last week. I'm going to look at it in the AM to see how its doing

On Iron Clay peas, does anyone do the inoculant? Seed selling websites act like it's super important, but it sounds like a pain.

I do. It’s not that much so why chance it. I use S type on beans and EL type on peas, Alyceclover and Jointvetch.

I bought them at the feed and seed here in Moundville. It was $35/50lb bag.

If the plot hasn't recently been planted with peas or soybeans I inoculate the seeds, you get more bang for your buck. As far as the whole process goes, it's just one more step to do it right. I put peas/beans,in a wash tub, add just enough water to moisten seeds, add inoculant, stir to mix and cover seeds, let it dry then mix seeds with fertilizer and plant

I just pour a coke on the seed and add inoculant, sticks bettern water.

I’ve done that before too but now just mix some sugar in a bottled water. Doesn’t take much liquid to get it to stick.

We are planting some Corn and also trying out some WMS Pea Patch blend this year.

I planted 50# of sunflowers and cow peas last week. Didn't think about inoculant. I would like to plant two to three more areas but time is a factor for me this time of year. Bigger equipment and implements means less time in the seat. I just broad casted them this time and disced in. Now I need some rain.

Why?

Prepped fields several weeks ago. Planting this weekend. Fields are varying combinations of iron clay pea and/or vetch plus sunflower or sunn hemp as ladder structure.

Going to try my first plot this year. Marked off a 1 acre spot in the rear of my property. Going to try some turnip, clover, and rape.

I’d wait until fall to plant that mix

ok - great, thanks for the tip.

Yes, plant those in the fall. You might want to look into adding some chicory to that mix because it will be attractive to the deer during the fall, but also will be something they can eat next summer.

About half my plots for the winter are planted in the summer. Hard to beat a corn field about Jan. Plant big enough and I have yet to not have corn into Feb.

I planted an acre of chufa last weekend. Going to try to plant about 6 acres over the next couple of weeks with combination of forage beans, sunn hemp, and sunflower.