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King City, Mo | Got an interesting experiment going on my organic acres.
Broadcasted and harrowed in oats, turnips and buckwheat in early March.
Got a good stand of oats and turnips. Buckwheat just wasn't in the cards this year so glad I added the turnips.
Was a "let's add in turnips as they are cheap and lots of seeds per lb" idea.
Well they will grow in the spring and we are having fall like weather which they seem to be enjoying.
Plan is to drill 150k of clear hiliumn food grade beans in strait away.
Then drill 150k in at an angle.
Finally get the brushcutter out when beans are 2-3 weeks planted and clip the field just above the beans hoping the oats are flowering so they will die when cut. Figured the buckwheat would of been dead anyway by then. Prob should of put more planning in on the turnips but it's a learning process.
So will chopping the tops kill the turnips?
Pics taken after lunch today.
Or do I get a rotary hoe in after I brush cut?
Or idea C?
If all grows up in a mess well just bale it.
Edited by lawfarms 4/30/2016 18:18
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Terminating turnips and oats with brushcutter?
