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 sorely disappointed. It's a rocky field so I can't get a disk on it except in a couple of spots so I decided to try t and m. I spread WR and some brassica. Literally the only places it germinated was in the few strips where I disked. I had plenty of rain after I spread the seed and decent cover. But my original puzzlement remains. How will it ever germinate without that soil contact?