If you are just beginning the throw n’ mow process then there is a good chance that right now your soil surface looks something like the one pictured below after last fall's tillage……
You can see the difference in this soil surface versus the one I posted in the video. This bare soil surface is not going to give us great germination success with the first crop that we seed on top of it. That being said, the option to plant something this summer is still up to you. If you do….just temper your idea of success and realize upfront that these aren’t ideal throw n mow conditions. My advice for the first summer is to let the cereal grains and clover mature…..mow it down for your first crop of thatch around the end of May…. and then let nature take its course for this summer. If you want to throw something in this summer then buy a cheap bag of milo and add some in before you mow..
In the meantime, go ahead now and get a soil test sent in. Go ahead this summer and begin making the lime amendments as well as the P&K amendments after you mow in May. This initial summer of converting to a throw n’ grow method we are not as much focused on growing “deer food” as we are just focused on growing biomass to feed back to the soil……high volume grass crops.
