Just about to start with the pasture in a few wks hopefully and I am using my neighbors field , or part of it and they used to every so often have someone come till it up with a tractor just to keep it from growing up with trees and stuff. As I can remember, last summer it was grown up but I forgot what it was with as my part of my land was grown up with small pines and stuff and I couldnt even see over there into the field that good. Now since October 2010 I have been working over there alot and my area is ready to go with the exception of 1 giant pile of trees to burn and one smallish one followed by another one even smaller. I will burn those hopefully next week.
The other part of my land is starting to grow grass. In the field it looks like greyish weed, like tall straws about 1-2 ft and I am wondering if it will turn to green grass or what?
Weed won't turn into grass unfortunately!! Depending on exactly what it is, I would slash it all and re-seed, to give some grass a chance to come up and push out the weed.
There are herbicides that kill everything but grass. My land is swampy and grows everything well and fast. I occasionally spray my fields to kill weeds and brush. Follow the directions carefully and keep livestock off of sprayed area for the required time. I also have a couple of goats they eat a lot of weeds and shrubberies.
Can you mow it? The old dead grass will not grow again, just new stuff will grow up underneath it. If you mow it the new grass will get more sun and grow faster, and the clippings will help fertilize it as they rot. My pasture is the same- hasn't been used for 2-3 years and I plan to mow it as soon as it dries up enough.
Can you mow it? The old dead grass will not grow again, just new stuff will grow up underneath it. If you mow it the new grass will get more sun and grow faster, and the clippings will help fertilize it as they rot. My pasture is the same- hasn't been used for 2-3 years and I plan to mow it as soon as it dries up enough.
^^^ Exactly. Besides if you put horses in a pasture with weeds & grass they'll eventually end up killing/weakening the grass and the weeds will take over. Pasture management isn't as easy as it sounds sometimes.
Mowed today and it looks much much better. I talked to this old man who has tractor and has messed with fields and stuff all his life. He also does work for people and plant grass and stuff. He told me I could mowe it then get some weed and feed, fertilizer, or something else he named. I will get some weed and feed or weed and seed this wknd
in the field as I was mowing I saw where some spots had nice grass patches so I'm confident the grass will come up and catch very well. I wonder though when I throw the grass seeds, will some of the seeds possibly get caught up in the cut up brushes of weed and not drop fully to the ground?
I guess thats possible but i guess as it rains and the rain hits it , it will push thru and eventually catch. I know though even the areas of grass that are there now, even without throwing down weed and feed it should catch fine with just whats there now.
what type of weed and feed should I buy for the pasture?
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