Best way to spread bermuda seed

[axisfeeder]

How bout this....I proposed to my wife behind a seed spreader in the Back60 here at the ranch!!!

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How many beers did that take?

[unclefish]

Awesome cultipacker Stan. I bought a used one last year that has three 4 foot sections that you can hook together and make a 12 foot swath. Its the best implement i own.

Not sure how much sand to use but the sprigging idea makes alot of sense.

[Stan R]

Awesome cultipacker Stan. I bought a used one last year that has three 4 foot sections that you can hook together and make a 12 foot swath. Its the best implement i own.

Not sure how much sand to use but the sprigging idea makes alot of sense.

I really like that old thing... The bearings ae gone but it keeps going. In fact they were old hard wood bearing..... But to replace those with newer one... The project is on the list...

[txnduckhntr]

ive planted lots of fields like that by dragging a few feed troughs into the center of it and mixing the little seeds in with some "meal" type cattle feed, not cubes. the cattle eat it and waa-laa.....instant fertilizer filled with seed..probably not as efficient as drilling etc, but it worked for me

[Stan R]

What a difference a day make.... I have done research on different seeds etc... decide that was they way to go... but

Did a crash course on coastal tifton 85 today.... So changed in mid stream. The tifton will cost a litte bit more than the seed but pay dividends in future years.

The field is getting sprigged with tifton 85 Friday.. It should rain some and that would be perfect.... I cut back a little and only going to do this to my main pasture.... I have aobut 3 more acres I will get ready and use the cutting off my field to sprigg that.

[Stan R]

Well The people that were going to sprigg called yesterday afternoon.... They said it looks like to rain the next few days and we want to get those spriggs on the ground now. We will be there at Midnight. They asked that I disk the field.

So they showed up about 1 am or so and proceeded to sprig the field. I left at 5:30 to get to work.....

I am too old to pull those all nighters.....

But I now have a planted field of Tifton 85 The rain should make it work just fine.

[Speedgoat]

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[BowtechKiller]

I think you will be happy with the tifton 85. We have been It makes a lot per acre just dont let it get too course

[Stan R]

I was told it need to be mowed a little more often.

If we get the rain cut every 3 weeks.....

[unclefish]

I was told it need to be mowed a little more often.

If we get the rain cut every 3 weeks.....

Are you talking about cutting for hay?

[Jonathan Brady]

No doubt

X2

[Stan R]

Are you talking about cutting for hay?

Is that the same as making hay??

[unclefish]

Is that the same as making hay??

Sure...maybe....I don't know.

I had no idea it grew that fast to cut that often.

[huntresss]

First, buy a bag of seed. You need plenty of liquids, so pick up a pack of beer, too.

When you get home, put the beer in the refrigerator, except for 1 that you are drinking. Get the equipment out of the tool shed. Bang head on low door header. Cuss. Drink a beer to make the head feel better.

Go back into the shed to get the spreader. Remember to duck the door on the way in. Move a bunch of stuff out of the way to find the spreader. Get side tracked with the tool box you found. Oh look! That's that thingamajig that you've been looking for 6 months and finally bought a new one last week! Chuckle at how buying a new thingy is the fastest way to find the one you had lost. Drink some beer and reflect on it for a while.

Walk outside, ducking the door. Look around. Oh! You forgot the spreader! Turn and run back into the shed, slamming the noggin against the door header. Stagger around and bump into the tool box, knocking it on the floor. Too much excitement. Drink a beer to relieve the pain. Grab the spreader and duck the door on your way out.

Open the bag of seed, tear it too far down the side, spilling the seed into a pile. Cuss. Pick up the seed by hand and put into the spreader. Leave a bunch of seed on the ground. Afterall, it is really tiny.

Walk out to the yard with the spreader and pull the lever to release the seed. Cuss. Forgot to reset the lever depth for bermuda seed from the last time you used it to spread dry fertilizer. Reset the lever depth.

Start over, walking thinking about how thirsty you are. Then it hits you. Gotta p! Dance around hoping to make it to the bathroom, but realize you aren't going to make it. The side of the house works, afterall, you are a man, right?

Might as well get another beer. Start walking with the spreader. Go about 200 feet and run out of seed. Go refill the spreader. Go about 200 feet. In no time you use up the whole bag.

Then you realize - you bought enough for 5 acres and you put it all out on your 100' x 60' yard. Cuss. Drink a beer. Put everything up. Sit in a lawn chair while you tell yourself that you will have a great looking yard because you spread it so thick. Then it hits you --- you are going to have to mow it!! Aaaggghhh!!!

Good luck!

There's no doubt you've seeded before!