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Question for you CNC. I have a new piece of property that I have not sprayed but did recently bush hog. Would a be pointless to spread the seed or should I actually hire someone to come disk since.

I really dont have enough information to be able to give you an answer on this one.......The reason why is because every spot is gonna be a little different with the variables that are being dealt with......What I can say though is that most fields are likely gonna need to be worked with in some form or fashion for a season or two before you get things working just the way you want.

Sounds good I had it disked last year and it was fine thanks for the info

I watched this video the other day on behavioral psychology……It talked about how our brain divides things up and stores them into groups or boxes…..It used the rainbow as example…..A rainbow is a spectrum of an infinite number of shades of colors but for our sake we divide it into 7 groups and call this range of color orange and these yellow, etc……It talked about how one of the inherent flaws in doing this is that our brain then has trouble in distinguishing how similar two things might be that were on the boundaries of these defined lines……For example there may be two colors that are very, very similar but on either side of our imaginary yellow/orange line and so our brain categorizes them in separate groups and far more differently than they actually are………

I say that because this idea of disking or not is very similar in these regards to me. We have drawn a line in the sand in our minds and fail to see that in many situations what could be done is not that far apart……Here’s an example of what I mean by this……..Just because you take a disk out there doesn’t mean that you have to till it down to nothing but bare exposed soil……..It’s not an all or nothing decision of the yellow box or orange box…..There’s the option of running the disk over it enough to just lightly churn everything up a little if that is what someone wishes to do…….

That’s one of the things I like about the Firminator. I can adjust the disk so I lightly disturb the soil but still leave a good bit of residue on the surface. Planted in some loamy soil last weekend with 2 passes. First to spread fertilizer and another to plant grains/cultipack. Spread clover and let the rain work it in. If rain is not forecast I drag with chain link or run just the cultipacker after spreading small seeds.

Still have the option of disking if needed

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This is day 6 now and she is going green........

Here's a pretty good podcast from Mossy Oak talking a little about planting with these type methods as well as others...... There's still a fair amount of BS here and there but it just is what it is at the moment......These guys are still some of my favorites

https://mossyoakgamekeeper.com/podcasts/ep53-a-food-plot-roundtable-discussion/

I guess you gotta call it something but the problem with having all of these “methods” is that people lose focus on the underlying principles……They get hung up on things like whether this guy uses buckwheat with “his method”….. and this guy uses soybeans with “his method”…….etc………It ought to just be called “planting”.

The clover is coming in THICK……..Crimson clover is so easy to grow that it leaves me scratching my head as to how we can overcomplicate “clover” so much……The one possible negative here is that there’s so much crimson coming up between the volunteer seed and what I added to it that I’m afraid it may outcompete the white clover seedlings…….I may have actually been better off in this situation to not have added any more crimson to it and only threw in the white……That would have cut costs even more too…..This is one of the reasons I made a couple smaller plantings of pure white without any crimson.

Ok, I’m going to ask a question, how do you spray then spread seed if vegetation is neck high? Not looking for a three page lecture.

I havent sprayed in years now but if you do want to spray and you're having that issue then try mowing one time during June.......This is what I have started doing to help keep the vegetation more manageable.......You can also spray after you mow even though some folks will say you cant do that.......or you can lay it down in a mat and spray it.......

But how do seed in that tall stuff

In the past I've just ran through it with my seeder making a little bit narrower passes than what you might usually and everything worked out fine.......This year I mowed first and then spread the seed and it seemed to work out just as well.......

I guess my process that I'm doing has gotten whittled down to mow and spread seed in October........mow in June.........That's pretty well the extent of it now.

Did you spray it before mowing?

This is the first year I didn’t spray at all. So far so good.