My caged tea weed is 3-4 ft tall now. The short basket is 4ft tall for reference. It shows the potential of the plant. It may even grow taller than that with more nitrogen. If you look in the background you�ll see that I�m also mowing the field as we speak. I left a little strip down the middle for Otis to hunt around. Several little rabbits came out of the field as I was mowing. I may go ahead and mow the rest this afternoon when it cools off. Most of the vegetation is around knee high and very thick. The ragweed in the field was getting waist high or better.
I wasn�t going to try and double crop it this year as dry as we've been but we�ve finally gotten some substantial rain over the last few days and it looks like we may have more on the way. I figured it would be a good time to mow since the plants will recover quickly now with the good moisture. All the stems you see are ragweed that should put back out some tender growth for the next 6-8 weeks until I get ready to plant my fall plot. This should also make the regrowth much more manageable. I may even try to strictly broadcast and spray this time since my soil surface is in good shape.
An example of the biomass I�m putting down��
