Hey folks I have a bit of a problem. My back yard butts up to a farm field that is owned by my neighborhood, but that only I have access to, and that I control. Due to some changes we made in our neighborhood, the farm field will not be cropped this year (and very likely never cropped again).
I'm looking to plant something in the field that will be easy to take care of and look good, hold down the weeds, and naturalized over time.
I'm thinking of a mixture/combination of alfalfa, Dutch white clover, and grass seeds. The field is roughly 12 acres. It tends to flood in the spring.
My thought was to broadcast seed the field? Will the seed simply wash away? Do I need to use a grain drill to plant the seed to keep it from washing out? Do I just broadcast it and hope for the best, then overseed again in the fall? I was thinking of using a landscape rake to rake the corn stubble out of the field (I don't have a large disk or plow so I figure the rake would be my fastest option)
I don't have any summer photos of the field but I did take a photo of my Snow Trac in the field that gives a decent view of the field. Basically I want to get something other than weeds and corn stubble out there. I will be looking to seed from treeline to treeline . . . so pretty much everything you can see in the photo needs to be planted. For reference, the treeline in the back is about 1000'+ behind the Snow Trac.
Any advice on what to plant and how to plant it would be appreciated.
I'm looking to plant something in the field that will be easy to take care of and look good, hold down the weeds, and naturalized over time.
I'm thinking of a mixture/combination of alfalfa, Dutch white clover, and grass seeds. The field is roughly 12 acres. It tends to flood in the spring.
My thought was to broadcast seed the field? Will the seed simply wash away? Do I need to use a grain drill to plant the seed to keep it from washing out? Do I just broadcast it and hope for the best, then overseed again in the fall? I was thinking of using a landscape rake to rake the corn stubble out of the field (I don't have a large disk or plow so I figure the rake would be my fastest option)
I don't have any summer photos of the field but I did take a photo of my Snow Trac in the field that gives a decent view of the field. Basically I want to get something other than weeds and corn stubble out there. I will be looking to seed from treeline to treeline . . . so pretty much everything you can see in the photo needs to be planted. For reference, the treeline in the back is about 1000'+ behind the Snow Trac.
Any advice on what to plant and how to plant it would be appreciated.