Summer No-till Plot - Buckwheat & Sunn Hemp

[yoderjac]

Want was your seeding rate?

For the buckwheat and sunn hemp it was 20-25 lbs acre each.

 

[Brian]

Thanks, that’s useful information- I understand that the one downside to Sunn Hemp is that it is slow to establish and buckwheat sounds like a good companion planting.

 

[yoderjac]

I would not say sunn hemp is slow to establish, but it is certainly slower than buckwheat like most crops. If you look at the pictures back from the beginning of the thread, you can see how the buckwheat grows first but the sunn hemp eventually dominates. They work well together as sunn hemp is a legume fixing N into the soil.

 

[yoderjac]

Looks like the plot is getting some daylight use:

 

[yoderjac]

15 this evening...All bald.

 

[yoderjac]

The buckwheat is sensitive to cold and will soon die off when we get a cold night making room for the fall plant. Deer use has been heavy as the previous videos show. We got rain last night and you can see the fall plant coming in through the buckwheat.

 

[Flatiron75]

Here is some updated pics 200 pounds rye 5 each of ysc med red Alfalfa balsana and chickory curious if anyone knows what those green clumps are ty

Clumps are wood sorrel / oxalis. Tough, resilient weed. Spot spray to kill it. It makes vertically-growing seed pods that resemble small green beans. The leaves shed sprays without surfactant - so use a surfactant to make the spray stick to the leaves. Probably take several sprays over a week or 2 to kill it. We have it in wife's flower beds = PITA to get rid of.

 

[victory]

Curious on what a fair price for these two items would be? 4 foot biologic disc and 44 inch acre ease finish mower

 

[yoderjac]

Curious on what a fair price for these two items would be? 4 foot biologic disc and 44 inch acre ease finish mower

I think fair is what a seller is willing to sell for and a buyer is willing to pay. The only data point I can provide is a new disc we bought a few years ago. Disc

Our primary use is for firebreak maintenance, so we got the ETA-XD-BFDH-20-20-N model which is about 800 lbs. It works pretty well for firebreaks. I have used it for min-till but had to set it as straight as possible or it would disc too much.