Recommendation for planting

[ETNyates]

Newly acquired land and I am looking for some recommendations on planting. We have hardwood bottoms and pine ridges with old logging roads running down two ridges. I would like to plant something fairly cheap and easy in the middle of those roads, probably a 15-20 foot wide by 200 yards long, for summer and then some radishes, rape, and turnips for fall. Would a good clover mix be my best bet for spring/summer or is something else better for that kind of planting?


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[Bucket]

I would wait to plant clover in the fall along with the others you mentioned. If you want to get something down in the spring I would recommend buckwheat to help build the soil some before then.

 

[ETNyates]

I thought buckwheat would wilt and die in our climate over the summer? I think it would be a great option other than that, and maybe I'm wrong.


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[Bucket]

It has about a 60 day lifespan, and you will get a little new growth from the seed it creates. It would be tough to get much of a summer plot established on those ridge top plots. In my experience they just don't hold moisture.

 

[chebuck]

If your planning on traveling these roads. I would not plant radishes. It will till the ground and make is soft. Probably rut it up if you drove down them in the spring

 

[ETNyates]

Ok thanks, won't be traveling the road where the plots are planted on anything other than foot.


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[Fearless]

Durrana Clover