I ended up working out a deal with a guy on some jiggs tops. I was going to go with Tifton 9 Bahia until I found out how much the seed costs.... The cheapest I could find was $245 for a 40lb bag. The guy I'm gonna get my tops from is gonna sell me more than enough to do 2 acres for $100. He said early to mid may he would start cutting and bailing tops and that whenever he got a big order he'd let me know so he could do mine with it. I had my soil tested and strangely enough it said my PH was good. It came back 5.9. I may still put down a ton of lime when I work the ground up again.
One acre of it I sprayed, disced, and planted rye grass on. The other acre I didn't plan on planting so I didn't do anything to it last fall. Should I only do the 1 acre I prepped this year or can I do a couple round up passes before may to kill everything enough to plant it?
After I spread the tops how deep should I disc them in? I use a 6' adjustable disc and when I'm trying to get everything churned up I offset it and have a 55 gallon drum full of water on it and drop it as deep as it'll go. When I disc the tops should I move the discs straight and take the water off and drop it all the way down? how many passes should I make over the tops with the disc?
Is there any herbicide I could put down to keep the seed bank in the soil from germinating after I spread the and pack in the tops? Or will any of the herbicides that do this interfere with the tops rooting?
My overall plan is to use these two acres that have irrigation to use as a nursery and over time plant the 13 acres in the back with no irrigation instead of spending a lot of money and rolling the dice on getting rain.
One acre of it I sprayed, disced, and planted rye grass on. The other acre I didn't plan on planting so I didn't do anything to it last fall. Should I only do the 1 acre I prepped this year or can I do a couple round up passes before may to kill everything enough to plant it?
After I spread the tops how deep should I disc them in? I use a 6' adjustable disc and when I'm trying to get everything churned up I offset it and have a 55 gallon drum full of water on it and drop it as deep as it'll go. When I disc the tops should I move the discs straight and take the water off and drop it all the way down? how many passes should I make over the tops with the disc?
Is there any herbicide I could put down to keep the seed bank in the soil from germinating after I spread the and pack in the tops? Or will any of the herbicides that do this interfere with the tops rooting?
My overall plan is to use these two acres that have irrigation to use as a nursery and over time plant the 13 acres in the back with no irrigation instead of spending a lot of money and rolling the dice on getting rain.
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