April 16th,afternoon

Well as the last posts show the crop of wheat has emerged the clover has been spread on ansd rolled in.
We now move onto the nutritional bit, the first application is; 4 litres/ha of rootboost and 1litre/ha of manganese.
This was applied 16/4/2010.

Rolling April 16th morning.

Rolling rolling rolling , etc... we spread the trefoil yesterday on to the loose seedbed created by the drill , well actually the the soil in between the drills is firm/moist with loose soil on top , so hopefully the seed will be pressed into the ground by the rolls and this will create an ideal situation for germination . Obviously with row spacing at 25cm there is plenty of room for clover between the rows and hopefully not be too shaded out later in the season.
I am also hoping the trefoil will be competitive with some weeds. (discuss)
Your tractor driver of the day is Paul who will later be the sprayer operator.
The wheat is looking well and what has suprised me is the number of worm castings in the seed rows , it seems they have taken the easy route and follwed the seed rows.

Clover sowing 15th April

Ok here we go with a little step outside the norm , we sowed Yellow Trefoil at 8kg/ha,using an old Nodet spreader fetched out from the back of the barn . It was suprisingly accurate , but a bit disconcerting working things out at ounces to the pint for calibration factors .
Hopefully the trefoil will give a little N this year but mostly its for year 2 , as i was explaining to father its not about being organic but trying something different , i originally said new but he said we did this back in the 50s, so nothings new is it.

Emergence

Well we have emergence , its been through for about a week now , but i have waited for now to take some photos.
Its looking good , i must admit i was a bit worried with regards to soil throw and burying seed too deep , but most is coming so fingers crossed, not exactly technical agronomy .
So we will wait for abit longer before we apply first dressing of root boost and manganese and also spreading on the clover but more about that in the future