I'm going with a slightly different mixture this summer. I need to be able to spray the plots with grass-killer in July to fight off the massive foxtail invasion I get every late summer. Because of that, I can't use any type of sorghum (it's in the grass family). So this year, it's forage soybeans, cowpeas, buckwheat, and sunflowers. The sunflowers are in the mix just to give the forage soybeans something to climb on, but I suspect the deer will eat them up pretty fast. We shall see.
We have done it multiple ways with success but normally we spray then as the standing vegetation starts to die sow then mow. Try to time before a rain.
I broadcast seed, mow, then spray. I see some spray first, wait for the standing plants to die, then seed and mow. The major problem with that is IF the standing plants are tall/thick, the spray doesn't get down to ground-hugging weeds/grasses. On the flip side, if you broadcast, mow, and then spray, the thatch can cover weeds/grasses and they don't get sprayed. However, I've not found that to be too much of a problem. I get a very good kill even though there is thatch on the ground.
Yup, a 2001 model. It's been hit by a train, rolled over more than 20 times, been sunk in creeks, broken through the ice of a pond, sunk in swamps, and had trees fall on it. Days existed where I put more than 80 miles of hard offroad work on it. Crazy thing is, it was still ticking along strong until the engine just froze up.
I use a bushhog simply because it lays the mulch down nicely, but I've never tried a flail mower.
I was killing everything, so I used glysophate. However, once the plants get up, I'll go back over the plot with Clethodim to kill the grasses that will inevitably germinate and take over. I really don't have too much problem with leafy weeds, just grasses (foxtail and fescue).
Clethodim and Butyrac. Mostly Clethodim, but spraying too far into summer could be bad. Depending on the weeds. We are thinking a light dose of Clethodim in the next 2 weeks depending on weather/temps and see what happens. This fall, adding more clover to it and spraying with both once the rains come
I hit my clover with cleth 10 days ago , looks great. I almost want to mow high just to get rid of the dead tops of the grass. My grass got knee high bc of flat tire , rain, then worried about fawns.
Naw that Clethodim will do its works. It will lay over within a week or two.
Probably, but I bought mine off the internet.
