Originally Posted by CNC
Originally Posted by Lockjaw
I am going to go heavy on radish and purple top tunips,



Here’s the problem with radishes and turnips…..Let’s say I would have added a smattering of these brassicas to the mix in my field…..It would have provided a little additional food but by this time in the game my brassicas would already be eaten down like my cereal rye and for the most part that’s that with brassicas……Now, if you say ok I’m gonna increase the amount of brassicas I add into the mix then what will quickly happen is that you’ll end up with nothing but a field of brassicas….and a few lbs of brassicas go a long ways……What you need for brassicas to really shine is somewhere you have a lot of acreage in one spot that can be planted where you can keep the ratio of brassicas in the mix low enough to not choke out your clover and cereal grains but still producing significant tonnage of brassica forage.

Yeah it’ll look like this grin[Linked Image]