I'm throw and mowing my sunn hemp and peas tomorrow. Will be disking up a field to plant corn too. I just can't let the corn sit on top.

I'm gonna check on my fields tomorrow. I'm guessing that they are still too wet to get into with a tractor, though.

Its very tempting to go ahead and plant now with this increased chance of rain next week�� but I think I�m going to stick to the original plan and wait another 1-2 weeks before doing any throwin and mowin. A lot of hairy vetch is still blooming and I want it to reseed itself. I also want to let the rye really brown down this year before I make the switch. I think it will mow much easier that way. Hopefully we will see another flurry of rain toward the end of the month.

Purple blooms of hairy vetch.......

Cereal rye is going brown nearly overnight����

Still pretty wet, but was able to bushhog my plots today. I got lucky because I wouldn't have been able to after this upcoming rain.

Using cereal rye in the garden����

Where is this upcoming rain you speak of?

I'm torn here. Ground isn't working up worth a flip. It's too dry. Do I throw and mow on the left and compare to disk and cultipack? Ground on left is rolling and rocky. What to do. What to do.

Go ahead and add some milo into the throw and mow mix as well. It's cheap and does well with this method.

I got a pile of grain sorghum seed. Thinking that and sunflowers together. I'm planting corn into my worked up ground. Then sunn hemp and peas going on my back 6 acres over the hill.

I like the idea of having diverse mixes. That left hand side looks thin enough that I think you could just broadcast seed into it and then cultipack. If it were really thick thatch then you might smother out the seedlings but I think that shorter thatch would work well that way. What do you think?

It's waist high volunteer wheat I burned down last week. It's not super thick. I'm going to seed then try to pack. If that doesn't look good I'll bushog then pack. Gonna try it without bush hoggin first.

I put in my plots at the house yesterday. They were chest high with rye and waist high with arrowleaf and crimson clover. Spread sunn hemp/buckwheat/ and some IC cowpeas and mowed over the top. Got a little rain over night, more arriving Friday.

What? No pics!! .......Sounds like you had plenty of thatch this round. Did you have any trouble getting the hay to spread fairly evenly?

I got some pics, i'll post them in your thread on QDMA.

Instead of dragging out the final weeks of the fall mix.....these last couple weeks of hot dry weather have brought the whole test field to abrupt halt within just a few days. Everything is pretty much toast now with the exception of a few hairy vetch plants still hanging on. The clover is going semi-dormant and the turnips are either doing the same or just terminating. In any case, I'm looking very good for planting next week. I went ahead and spot sprayed a few stray spurge nettle plants and a little around the edge of the field to minimize encroachment.

I'm going with a mix of milo, cowpeas, and buckwheat. I threw out some milo seed a couple weeks ago but with this dry spell we went through I think I may go ahead and put out a few more lbs/ac next week with the peas and buckwheat. I may regret that later. Too much milo and all you will have is milo.

One more pic of the field terminating naturally before we mow it down. That�s durana clover you see in the understory going semi-dormant. It will return later on��A good window of opportunity now to establish my summer plants. No major spraying needed...just some minor spot spraying with a back pack sprayer.

Checked my test plot today and spread one bag of 13-13-13. We had one bag left over from last fall.

Looks like a fine stand of buckwheat. Good job Bambam.

Nice job bambam......