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Thank you. Clearly not deep enough. Probably just a few inches. It is the lowest I can go with my disc. I have my 3 point on the lowest setting. But your point is interesting. I just hate to spray. Just worry about what it does to the soil and animals etc long term. But clearly this doesn’t...

Hey all…so I have read that one can avoid spraying to kill weeds and grass by discing and doing it again 2 weeks later. In fact it is in the QDMA book on plots. Well I did that with stunning unsuccess and failure. Plowed it up and did so again two weeks later and have barely made a dent...

Wow that is extremely helpful. I will give this a go and thanks so much.

Ohhhh! Gotcha. Thank you for that!

I have not looked into that or considered it yet. I remember taking a stab at throw and mow and I failed miserably but I learned from here that I took a little knowledge and tried to apply it...not good. But I always thought spraying was a key to throw and mow.

Very interesting. And I should have put in my opening question the whole issue of tilling too much and what it does to the soil. I disked yesterday a portion of 3 of my fields. I probably did a total of an acre. I'll re-do it in a couple of weeks to kill what's there which is mostly weeds...

Good questions. I have 4 fields about an acre a piece...I have a tractor, disk, spreader, bush hog, york rake. Right now I have a decent amount of clover growing in each but they now need some work...weeds...and I also want to diversify a bit in terms of what I plant.

Anyone manage their stand without spraying? I hate to use the stuff quite frankly and wonder what it does to the deer and turkey and then me if I eat them. Any non-spray options?

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Thank you all. I'm wondering the same thing about running a rake over it next year. I didn't spray and maybe that makes all the difference but to be honest I don't see why. I mowed after I spread the seed and like I said I had decent coverage and lots of rain. But even as I was spreading the...

I've never understood how throw and mow works when the field is covered with clover, grass, weeds, leaves and other organic material and I'm throwing the seed on that. I tried it for the first time this year and sure enough I went out to that field today for the first time in a month and was...

Thank you both. Letting it stand!

I had some oats that survived the winter strangely enough...I'm in Maine. They grew nicely and have now turned golden. Question is...when should I mow them? I think I've heard that I should do that at some point. I have nice clover growing amongst it as well. Thanks in advance

Is it necessary to spray as part of throw and mow? Could you mow when green and have success?