Producer Murray Gomm
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Hi Louis, I hear you have some success with using livestock to sow seeds. keen to hear about that. Did you use sheep or cattle and what time of the year? I have a small vineyard in Albany and keen to dry seed in late summer when there is a bit of bale soil around and get the sheep in after we pick which is March. We usually have…
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G’day Louis, Kate Tarrant mentioned you have had some luck with using stock to trample in seed rather than cultivate. I was thinking of dry seeding some vineyard inter rows in February when there are a few bare spots. Cant get the sheep in until mid March after the fruit is picked.
Keen to get any advice from you and hear…
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a year agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures a year agoI’m happy to see chicory and plantain coming thru my vine inter row cover crop after sheep have grazed the crop down. Looking forward to them both being actively feeding microbes during summer also. the cover crop (Goodies Farm mix plus linseed, chicory, plantain and primrose) were sown mid April. I felt a bit guilty cultivating thin strips with…
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That sounds like a great mix of species Murray.
We dry seed the inter rows in late summer, when all the weeds are dead, to avoid tilling.
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Murray,
We converted a small rotary hoe to a strip seeder with tyre drags behind. Seemed to work quite well. I’ll try get a video of it for you.
Dean
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