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Murray Gomm posted an update in the group
a year agoPerennial & Biodiverse Pastures I’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 a rotary hoe to put the seed in, So when there is some bare soil, February or March I plan to coat seeds with liquid biostimulants, then clay, compost and wood ash mixed with water to create seed bombs to protect the seeds from ants and birds and avoid the need to cultivate. Was thinking (like you Kate) of using sheep to trample uncoated seeds into the ground also. Has anyone else had any experience with this?
Joanna Wren and Mark Tupman6 Comments-
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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Thanks Mark, Ill be be bringing the dry seeding forward definitely! And hope to see a bit of primrose popping up at some stage.
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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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Thanks Dean, that looks like a great little unit
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Looks good Murray, I know @louis-verheggen uses his livestock to help seed his pastures, might be worth having a chat with him.
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Thanks Kate, I will follow up with him. Was just chatting to a broadacre farmer who dry seeds in late summer when there are a few bare patches here and there. Mid April is usually too late here as we usually have germination by then and there isn’t too much bare ground. So, l think I’ll bring the dry seeding forward to February. Grapes are picked by mid March, so I’ll let the sheep (each with four minimal till cultivators) in to trample the seed in.
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