CNC.... I'm going to throw and mow this season and have a good thatch for covering the seeds. I have one spot that was created by loggers this summer that is about a 1/3 of an acre of dirt. It was there log landing I got the bark and rocks off but have nothing to for thatch. I thought of running the drag over it to soften the top a little and going with small seed-clover,rape,greens and maybe rye. Would hauling a couple of rotten round bales and spreading over it be worth the effort or just see what happens.
If it's been used recently as a logging landing then I'd probably go ahead and break it up again here in the beginning. Once you have it planted though, if you've got an old round bale of hay then it'd be a good idea to scatter it over the top of the seed. If you have enough of hay to make to coatings, then it wouldn't hurt to disk in a little of it. It's likely you've got some pretty good compaction after all the logging equipment.
