After a summer when I went 12 weeks with very little rain, I decided to re-seed over an acre of my yard. I disked with Jubilee. Raked off the old roots, mostly weed roots. Then I used 30 inch rotor tiller on back of John Deere Lawn tractor. Used 3 ft disk and put groves in dirt. Then used grass seeder to first spread fertilizer and lime before I put the seeds down. I then used home made cultipacker. I seeded on election day in November. Really didn't get the rain needed soon enough to germinate many of the seeds. Come spring however, things looked good. In the summer, not enough rain and all my efforts were for nothing. Spent around $500 and yard is back to where it was before I started. I had no way to irrigate.
One time I did all the above at a different yard, planted on Dec 1. Dec 3 it snowed and I got the best yard ever come spring. That yard would have died had I not been able to irrigate in summer.
I know a man who a plot of alfalfa and another with clover for his deer. He did everything right. Everything looked good until he didn't get the rain when needed. If I remember as a kid, dad would plant alfalfa and wheat as a cover crop with a grain drill alfalfa.
I found that packing seeds in dirt is critical. Don't try putting on top of existing ground without preparing the ground. No irrigation lessens the chance they will make it. I've had no luck planting in late spring or summer. Better chance planting in the Fall. Best ever was planting just before it snowed.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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