smokedtires
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I'm think I can get a disk harrow and york rack to turn and smooth over my farm land for lawn behind my JD 20hp diesel. What do you think?
farm field to lawn question...
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smokedtires said:
Bushhog it then burn it. It'll be much nicer. The clumps will burn away if it was allowed to overgrow for some years.
Roundup will take care of that. If I was to go that route, though, I'd wait unil late August to undertake this. I have seen people have really good results reseeding around Labor Day and I've seen people have terrible results seeding in the spring. If you can water, it probably makes no difference.
Loogie
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I'm doing the same thing with out an acre of old soybean field that is presently a dandelion/clover farm. Roundup in early Sept followed by some box blade'n, harley rake'n and then I'm going to run a slicer/overseeder over it. Should be a fun fall!
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smokedtires
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Harvster said:
Yup, that sounds like what I have going on, except we need to throw in the thousand bumps we drive over when mowing down all that stuff.
I kinda like the idea of turning the soil and throwing down the grass seed in the fall, I'll just have to keep up on the mowing inorder to be able to turn it over at that time.
Thanks all.
rickmacheske
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I've tried the conversion on my lot. It didn't work out too well. I'm now in the process of using the tiller on the entire lot and picking the rocks out. I'm going to till a second time after adding a lot of organic matter. I hope it works this time.
Loogie
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Can you describe your process last time. What was the condition of the field and what steps did you take to try to make a yard of it? Hopefully we can learn from your experience.
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smokedtires
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I agree, that would be great to hear. Thanks.
rickmacheske
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The area around my house is right on the edge of where the field met the forest originally. The house was built and the dirt/rock from digging the basement was used quite a bit in my front yard. There were also sections where it was field but mostly scraped down. The builder didn't do much. He used a rock hound to remove some of the surface rock (only 1/4" down from what I see) and then seeded. Since then I've been battling rocks at the surface and spotty grass at best. Last year I tried to reseed an area with little success. I used a landscape rake to remove the rock and grass from an area. It looked like decent dirt (mostly clay) left. I applied seed and straw in the fall. This year you can see that some came up, some didn't. After inspecting it, it's obvious that the area where I moved a lot of loose dirt is doing acceptably well but the area where I scaped and have only about 1/2" of loose dirt is not working. I've also put in a vegetable garden in the field. I did this by tilling down to 8". This area looks great.
This year I'm going to try a larger area by tilling down to 8", removing as much rock as I can with a landscape rake and flattening with a drag. I'm going to add as much organic matter as I can get my hands on. I'm also going to put in a sprinkler system.
I definitely learned that I need to loosen the dirt down to a fairly deep level to get the grass growing well.
Just my $0.02
This year I'm going to try a larger area by tilling down to 8", removing as much rock as I can with a landscape rake and flattening with a drag. I'm going to add as much organic matter as I can get my hands on. I'm also going to put in a sprinkler system.
I definitely learned that I need to loosen the dirt down to a fairly deep level to get the grass growing well.
Just my $0.02