Got 4 acres of fresh plowed pasture to seed, but it's about to hurricane in NC

[ShowroomShine]

Building a house for the wife and I, along with 4 acres of pasture I just cleared and plowed up. This was 2 weeks ago and it's been raining ever since so I can't get into the field to level disc it and seed it. The wife and I were planning to plant fescue rye clover and orchard for the pasture this fall, and let it get established this fall and over the winter so we can put the horses on it next spring.

Now it's still to wet to do anything, and they are talking about Matthew hitting us this weekend.

Do I just go out a broadcast the seed and fert now and hope I can cultipack it before the storm, or wait until after it dries out for a few weeks and risk the weather and ground temp being too cold for fescue and orchard grass?

It may dry enough by the weekend of Oct 21 to plant provided it does not rain anymore, is that too late for fescue and orchard on NC, or would I be wasting time and money?

 

[JMER817]

You won't have very good germination rate if you don't do any additional prep. Wait until it dries. Disc it then run a spiked tooth drag or landscape take to smooth out. Plant seed then roll

 

[newbury]

NOAA's prediction indicate warm for the next couple of months.

 

[ShowroomShine]

You won't have very good germination rate if you don't do any additional prep. Wait until it dries. Disc it then run a spiked tooth drag or landscape take to smooth out. Plant seed then roll

Its been disked within the past 2 weeks, so its prepped, I just wanted to level disc it back out before I seeded. Right now the ground is "fluffy" but has ruts in it from the lime truck.

 

[JMER817]

You want the ground packed down enough so that when you walk on it you leave about a 1/2 inch deep footprint. Leaving it just disked will be too fluffy. Spread the seed and then roll it. I've had best results doing it this way.