Seeding Broam Grass

I"ve had this wrong all these years!

I thought the way to seed Broam was to just stand on the upwind side of the field and drop one single seed.

Wait 30 minutes and the whole damed county would be infested with the stuff. :>)

Allan

I"ve had this wrong all these years!

I thought the way to seed Broam was to just stand on the upwind side of the field and drop one single seed.

Wait 30 minutes and the whole damed county would be infested with the stuff. :>)

Allan

I think its possible to have brome deawned in a hammer mill so it will plant with oats.

Put the oats in the main seed hopper and the alfalfa and other small seeds in the grass seed hopper. Take the grass seed tubes off and let those fall on top the ground, the disk openers will plant them too deep otherwise. The drag chains will bury them enough. A cultipacker behind the drill will help the alfalfa germination.

What is your reason for this mix? Brome, alfalfa, and timothy mature at different times. Mostly alfalfa matures first and the frequent mowings wipe out the brome and timothy. Climax timothy is supposed to mature more timely with alfalfa, but I couldn't tell when I replanted some drowned out alfalfa with it.

I used to plant 16 pounds of alfalfa to the acre for hay production.

Gerald J.

Horses don't need any alfalfa, when I was selling alfalfa hay to horse types, they fed them two flakes a day, then the horses ate the barn and to wooden fences to fill in the bulk they are programmed to need. Horses love alfalfa, if not restricted they will eat it until they explode.

Compared to timothy, brome is tough. And brome is considered an invasive weed some places. It certainly does spread on its own reliably going to seed and not needing burying to sprout.

Gerald J.

Anyhow, I would try to run the small seeds through the grass seeder portion - they need to be shallow & work better this way.

I would mix the fluffy seeds with the oats when in the drill. Perhaps fill in layers, some oats, some grass seed, some oats.... Mix a bit with your hand. Heavy & small seeds like to fall to the bottom as you drive, light & big seeds like to float to the top, so you just need to 'deal' with that. I would not like to put the little round seeds in for that reason.....

As the grass is the point of this field, I would plant pretty shallow - real shallow - with the oats/grass mix, pack it in if you have a packer or harrow it, and should come out pretty good. Has for us.

Typically for such things, one plants a little heavy on the grass seed as placement/ distrabution is not perfect, but it should all come out ok.

Dry enough up there to plant? My oats is up, but man there are water puddles all around, no corn for a while yet. We had 4.8 inches this month.

--->Paul