Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

The paddock I'm adding it to already has some good cool season grasses and the Crab Grass is more hot weather. I'll over seed with some clover later on in the fall. The paddock I put the deer plot mix on has come in great on really marginal soil.

 

[Baymule]

What are you using to spread the lime?

We got a total of 3 1/4" of rain. Tornadoes struck San Augustine, south and east of us, About a couple hours away.

 

[greybeard]

The paddock I'm adding it to already has some good cool season grasses and the Crab Grass is more hot weather. I'll over seed with some clover later on in the fall. The paddock I put the deer plot mix on has come in great on really marginal soil.

The last deer plot I put in was mostly Austrian peas, ryegrass, brassica, and oats. Might have had some chicory and soy in there too but it grew really good and stayed green thru the hot spring we had. Did some wheat one year but wasn't impressed with it.

 

[greybeard]

What are you using to spread the lime?

We got a total of 3 1/4" of rain. Tornadoes struck San Augustine, south and east of us, About a couple hours away.

Bryan too.
https://www.click2houston.com/weath...ornado-damage-after-storms-roll-through-texas

We didn't get any weather at all except the temps dropped a little. No rain, no wind.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had a lot of wind (still do) but most of the storms went around us. Nashville and the NFL draft got plenty wet.

I have a pull behind seed broadcast spreader that holds three bags at a time so it's not fast but it works.

 

[Mike CHS]

The last deer plot I put in was mostly Austrian peas, ryegrass, brassica, and oats. Might have had some chicory and soy in there too but it grew really good and stayed green thru the hot spring we had. Did some wheat one year but wasn't impressed with it.

This has pretty much similar but also has a lot of red clover. The sheep don't seem to care for it but the cows do. The sheep would probably like it more if they weren't getting so full of the rye grass in the next paddock over.

 

[Baymule]

Red clover (it's really kinda pinkish) or crimson clover? We have the crimson, it gets tall and thick. It reseeded from last year and we got even more of it. It is a good soil conditioner too.

 

[Mike CHS]

It's Crimson Clover.

 

[greybeard]

I can never get Crimson to grow long enough to go to seed and it barely flowers. The deer keep it eaten down almost to the dirt.

 

[Mike CHS]

I got the lime put down but still need to get another pallet full next week. It's nice and sunny out but the wind is steady at 15 out of the WNW with gusts so it never did warm up above the low 70's.

One of us (probably me) failed to latch the chain on the gate to the dry lot this morning and shortly I came in out of the field to eat lunch, I started hearing lambs yelling outside from a direction I should not be hearing them from. I went out to the back door and all 8 of the ewe lambs are looking in the back storm door from the driveway yelling for me to come out. I walked out and walked them all back down to the pen and gave them some food as a reward and they were happy. They can see us whenever we go in or out that door so at least they knew where to come to find their humans.