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southern MN | I am used to planting turnips and clover and alfalfa mix with my oats. I swath and harvest oats, bale straw, and let the covers grow.
With out thinking one year I planted radish instead of turnips. Then I learned after the fact they go to seed when planted early.
The field looked odd, all those flowers and then seed heads poking over the oats.
The plants did go to seed, but they were not dried down when the oats was mature. I swath so made little difference really.
Getting the semi dry radish seed heads to separate from the oats was difficult. Since I feed the oats I ended up didn’t try too hard. More feed.....
Quite a few seeds regrew and did make big tubers.
It was a good year for it - early spring I was planting early and we had some rain after baling the straw off, so they had longer season to grow with the oats, and best chance of catching the combine seeding.
If any of this has any relation to what you are trying, I donno.
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Spring frost seeding radishes into wheat. Any success possible?
