In the northern US, they plant brassica's late July Early, early August. Down here to get excellent growth on both leaves and bulbs, Early September and pray for rain. BTW, most people don't know this, but brassica's are not supposed to be planted in the same field more than 2 years in a row, due to disease issue's. I think they're mostly talking about pure stands. It's beast to plant straight brassica's on one end of a field and on the other end plant your clover and cereal grains. That way you can plant your brassica's sooner and fertilize them with nitrogen. Next year rotate the brassica's to the opposite end. There's some stuff you sew to kill army worms.

I just got my first T&M plots in. Hopefully I can get some rain this week.

Didn’t get the rain yesterday like i did at home apparently. Everything was dry as a bone today. I need rain at my place bad!

A pic this pm from my truck window. Radishes over boot top high. Deer were absolutely hammering them at dark today

Looks like a 90% chance on Thursday. I sure hope we get it, timing will be just right for me.

CNC when was your plant date for that field. I planted got most of my seed out the day before the hurricane. Also seeded last week and we got a perfect rain on Saturday. Glad we got it as it had not rained since hurricane in the Inverness area.

First try at throw and mow and it’s coming up great. I sprayed mid September and came back and seeded/mowed Oct 5th. We are on timber company land with fairly heavy clay soils. Soil was amended to meet soil test. This field was disced heavily last year. I planted wheat/oats/rye and some crimson clover, this is the best looking field out of 6 total, the other five were planted using traditional tillage. I will be going 100% no till next year.


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I planted mine the day before the hurricane hit....It's up pretty good now. I'll snap another pic in the next few days.

Welcome to the club!...…..

CNC that is crazy that you have that much growth in that time... WOW!!!!!

Tried my first non traditional food plot. I mowed low and slow about three weeks ago. Then drilled. Unfortunately I hate to say it has turned out to be a failed attempt. I fertilized at planting and the grass has come back with a vengeance. The grass is green and growing great but afraid its choking out my winter mix. After looking at it this morning probably going to just cut it under and replant

You should have sprayed first.

Gotta spray if you’re gonna plant that early.

I agree.....should've sprayed.....especially if you had a lot of grasses. Those will bounce back on you until the frost hits.

Good soil conditions allow seedling to jump quickly.....I think the little bit of N I add at planting also helps.

I agree. Lesson learned

Snapped a couple pics this morning of the last week’s growth…..I tried to take a pic from the same spot as the first one.

About a week ago...…..



Today...…...




Here’s the other direction and the rest of the field………All of that straw with eventually just disappear.

Went and checked out my fields today that were planted three weeks ago.

The two fields that were planted last year have some germination even with very little rain.

The new field which has much less thatch is struggling. I hope it won't be a total loss as I could see a good bit of seed sitting on top that hasn't germinated.

Hopefully this rain gets it going. The newest field is worst case scenario being a ridge top and heavy clay with no shade.

The shade lines in the other fields had the best seed germination so far.

Gonna get a good rain in Tupelo Thursday, I’d imagine the northern half of Bama will too.

They're calling for the southern part of the state to also. I hope it holds up