Fishbonker
Life Member
JNRBRONC won a bag of Bucks and Bosses at a recent QDMA meeting. I shamed him into giving the bag to me. The bag is supposed to cover ½ acre. The plot I wanna plant is 200X60 feet, give or take a few feet. The plot is currently in, what I think is, Brome grass. I burned it off a few weeks ago and the weather turned very cold freezing the sprouted Brome. My plan was to burn it off, let it grow for a couple of weeks, nuke it with glyphosate and about two weeks later plow, disc, harrow, broadcast and drag. Now I think it is too late to nuke it and wait for the glyphosate to do its thing before I turn the soil. So now what I’m thinking of doin is just cut out the nuke step, turn and finish the soil, broadcast and drag.
I don’t think for a minute that the plot will be Brome, or any other grass, free. I assume I’ll be spraying something to control the grass.
So my questions are these:
1: Would it be better to wait till next year after I nuke the plot this fall and then plant it next spring?
2: If I plant it yet this spring what herbicide would work best to control grasses and broadleaves?
3: The contents of the mix are listed below. Seems kinda clover heavy to me. Yes or No?
4: If I mix in some wild flowers what herbicide should I use so I don’t kill them?
5: Would you mold board plow and disc or just disc? I’m concerned with turning over more weed seeds to germinate but I got a plow and what good is a tool left in the box?
Anyway, thanks for any info.
The ‘Bonker
Tecomate Bucks and Bosses
16% Zapican White Clover
15% Madrid Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
15% Naomi Wooly Pod Vetch
7% La Ninia Chichory
7% Tripoli White Clover
7% Huia White Clover
7% Start Red Clover
5% Norcen Birdsfoot Trefoil
3% Facon Chicory
0.1% Other Crop Seed
0.5% Inert Matter
0.03% Weed Seed
19% Coating Material
I don’t think for a minute that the plot will be Brome, or any other grass, free. I assume I’ll be spraying something to control the grass.
So my questions are these:
1: Would it be better to wait till next year after I nuke the plot this fall and then plant it next spring?
2: If I plant it yet this spring what herbicide would work best to control grasses and broadleaves?
3: The contents of the mix are listed below. Seems kinda clover heavy to me. Yes or No?
4: If I mix in some wild flowers what herbicide should I use so I don’t kill them?
5: Would you mold board plow and disc or just disc? I’m concerned with turning over more weed seeds to germinate but I got a plow and what good is a tool left in the box?
Anyway, thanks for any info.
The ‘Bonker
Tecomate Bucks and Bosses
16% Zapican White Clover
15% Madrid Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
15% Naomi Wooly Pod Vetch
7% La Ninia Chichory
7% Tripoli White Clover
7% Huia White Clover
7% Start Red Clover
5% Norcen Birdsfoot Trefoil
3% Facon Chicory
0.1% Other Crop Seed
0.5% Inert Matter
0.03% Weed Seed
19% Coating Material