Road bed plot?

I’ve got a road that has some native grasses and small saplings. The road isn’t used at all so I’d like to convert a portion of it into a plot. Most of the road had decent sunlight and it doesn’t appear to be heavily compacted soil.

I don’t have discs or plows and am leaning on seeding winter rye and crimson clover this weekend. I don’t have a soil test either but will probably get one later this year and amend accordingly.

Any body have luck with a conversion of this type?

Just broadcast seeds so they make soil contact and right before a good rain event. You should be good.


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Let in a little sunshine, at least 50%, and clover should do well. Even an atv drag or dragging an old bed spring over it with a little weight on would help getting a little soil loose for the seeds to take ahold. Throwing a little tillage radish seed along with your other stuff might help loosen up the soil.

I have some brassicas mix left. Is it too late to plant that now?

Hit it with roundup. Spread white clover and winter rye right on top, same day if time's an issue. Walk away. Come back later and throw down some pell lime and gypsum and call it good. I don't have the tools to work or even drag a plot. If I can't get it going with a spray, throw, mow, it doesn't happen on my place.

And clover is the best looking thing I've ever grown.