Howdy, folks. We're getting about 13 acres at the top of our lot stumped and graded this month. Eventually, with luck, we'll get a house built in the middle of this part of our land. This is in southern NH.
I'll need to seed it right after the grading and I have some questions about that. Eventually, about 40 % of this area will be fenced pasture for our Highland cattle pasture ornaments, maybe a couple of donkeys or whatever else comes down the pike. The rest of the area will just be field that I expect to bushhog. We're not thinking of hayfields.
1) What to seed it with? The contractor mentioned he's had good luck with a "conservation mix" as a starter for freshly cleared land.
2) How best to seed it? Broadcast seeder from the back of my Kubota L3130? Or use a seed drill or overseeder implement (if I can find one to rent)?
3) Does it have to be covered after seeding? If so, with what? We hate the idea of throwing hay over it, because where we live now we got bedstraw as a result of a contractor covering our leach field with after seeding. Nothing eats that bedstraw and it is prolific and invasive.
thanks, bws
I'll need to seed it right after the grading and I have some questions about that. Eventually, about 40 % of this area will be fenced pasture for our Highland cattle pasture ornaments, maybe a couple of donkeys or whatever else comes down the pike. The rest of the area will just be field that I expect to bushhog. We're not thinking of hayfields.
1) What to seed it with? The contractor mentioned he's had good luck with a "conservation mix" as a starter for freshly cleared land.
2) How best to seed it? Broadcast seeder from the back of my Kubota L3130? Or use a seed drill or overseeder implement (if I can find one to rent)?
3) Does it have to be covered after seeding? If so, with what? We hate the idea of throwing hay over it, because where we live now we got bedstraw as a result of a contractor covering our leach field with after seeding. Nothing eats that bedstraw and it is prolific and invasive.
thanks, bws