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North Central Illinois | Thanks for all the feedback. I finished it and was going to take a few after pictures, but my phone died on me. I will try to remember to take a few pictures in the morning. Only about 5% of the field had this many weeds. 90% of the field had less than one visible weed per 3 feet of row.
Only the headlands are very cloddy. The bulk of the field worked nicely. Last year I hoed corn about this size, because I was stuck cultivating it too wet and there were small weeds that were in clods pushed into the row so I hoed afterward to dislodge them. I saw no damage of significance from the hoe.
On some weedy stuff, I pulled away from the rows with the lilliston, with the small spiders pushing a bit into the rows last Tuesday, then ran the sweep cultivator Friday and today. I still have some velvet leaf and jimson weed in the rows. Hopefully the weather cooperates and the corn will get enough size on it that I can really push a lot of dirt into the rows to bury the rest of the weeds in a week or so. I have never been around a flamer. Do you use yours much? | |
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Do I cultivate this today?
