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Subject: Re: [OM] Help an ignorant urbanite [was And a couple more - Bales]
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:09:11 -0500
We discovered something this summer that kills nutsedge - what we call nut
grass.  Before, we had tried to pull every plant but that just seems to
make it spread faster! Then I read that you could get horticultural
molasses, dilute it, and spray it on each plant.  After a few applications,
the nut grass began to die off.  I've still got plenty of molasses to use
next year, too.  Read about it here:
http://www.dirtdoctor.com/Nutgrass-Control-with-Molasses_vq3266.htm

Tina


On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hmmm.  You got the way-more-better job.  Nice shot.  :-)
>
> ps:  I used to use straw as a cover for newly seeded grass.  I don't do
> it anymore since I have realized that the local straw is also full of
> the local farmer's yellow nutsedge seed.  Yellow nutsedge used to be
> just a southern weed but has worked its way north.  I call it one of the
> world's worst weeds.
>
> My back yard became infested with it when I had part of the yard
> re-seeded and the guy that did the work used lots of bales of hay to
> cover the seed.  After that the reseeded area was chock full of yellow
> nutsedge.  I've been trying for 5 years to get rid of it.  So far I
> think I've gotten about 90% of it.  There are very few chemicals that
> will kill it (as a lawn weed), they are expensive and are well less than
> 100% effective.  Moral of the story:  If you're planting grass find
> something other than straw to cover the germinating seed.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 12/8/2013 4:32 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > With our very small farm here (64 acres) in York, SC, we raise hay on
> three
> > different pastures.  Another farmer comes with the equipment to cut,
> stir,
> > and bale the hay twice a year.  We split the bales with him.  Last year
> we
> > baled just over 600 square bales, twice a year.  He uses his hay to feed
> > his horses.  We store ours in the barn until the horse owners around here
> > run out of their own hay and then Tom sells it on Craig's List for about
> $5
> > a bale.  Our hay is all organic and has never been sprayed.  We have no
> > foxtails, which horse people hate.  The horses seem to like our hay.  Tom
> > usually sells all but a few bales which I use in the chicken house and
> > garden.  We don't have any straw so I don't know about that except that
> > they sell it at Lowes for mulch maybe?  The fields need bushhogging right
> > now - lots of broadleaf weeds - but Tom has to work on the tractor first.
> >
> > To transfer this thread to photography, here is my take on the hay
> harvest.
> >   I drive the truck while the guys load the hay:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/135404269
> >
> > C&C greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/7/2013 4:39 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> My BIL's cattle operation goes through two to three rounds per day
> >>> plus additional feed. His goal is to always have a full year of
> >>> carryover. Last year, we had the drought and the year before, Texas
> >>> did. Between hay sales to Texas and last year's drought, most Iowa
> >>> operations fully depleted their carryover reserves and had to resort
> >>> to other sources.
> >>
> >> U to here in this pp, we are talking straw, correct?
> >>
> >>> It got a little tricky around here and hay thefts were a daily
> >> occurrence.
> >>
> >> Hay, or straw, or both?
> >>
> >> Partially Enlightened Moose
> >>
> >> --
> >> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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