Another throw and mow ?

Drycreek

Drycreek

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Guys, I have two plots with IC peas that are still going strong. I would say the peas average 18" tall at minimum. They're still green, and the deer are still eating them. I'm planning a throw and mow, (with wheat), in about two/three weeks. Is that gonna be too much thatch ? Do I need to mow close or mow 8"/10" off the ground. My first attempt at throw and mow. Thanks !
 
That won't be too much thatch. I usually mow pretty low but there's no certain height is has to be mowed at....just try to evenly distribute the thatch and get a good covering across the seed.
 
I mowed as low as the rotary cutter would allow without hitting the ground or the front edges digging in, about 4".
 
Thanks guys, gonna see in a couple weeks . If the seed doesn't germinate, I'll still have time to plant the conventional way, but I really want this to work.
 
A little late now and certainly Crimson & Camo has the most experience with this, but the year I had a great crop of copweas (only one year, before deer ate them all), I broadcast wheat into the standing cowpeas and just let the deer eat away at them. When the first frost hit, it killed the cowpeas and left the wheat.

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image.jpeg Well, throw and mow only works here if you're a hog. I visited my place Sunday and saw the hogs had been snuffling all over the plots. Brought my tractor back from another place today and took a closer look. I couldn't find a single seed in the one plot that I looked closely at. Nothing but semi-dried pea vines. So, I lightly disced and planted again and cultipacked the heck out of it. I left my sweaty t-shirt hanging on the exclusion cage hoping to keep them at bay, and believe me, it was plenty sweaty after tearing pea vines out from my disc blades and axles !:mad:
 
image.jpeg Re-seeded the other plot the conventional way, but first, got rid of the dang pea vines. I borrowed a rake from a friend of mine and made short work of that. Disced lightly, seeded, dragged and cultipacked. I didn't get a pic of the finished plot, but it looks just like this except it has stripes in it:). Through until spring !
 
image.jpeg image.jpeg After discing lightly, re-seeding, dragging, and cultipacking, I finally wound up with a crop ! The top pic is a plot planted the conventional way the first time. The bottom pic is a re-do. I got a little over an inch of rain just a few days after planting the last one.
 
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