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Flamin10 Reg. Nov 2008	Posted 2017-12-14 5:03 PM Subject: BUrning and spreading/planting?
Extreme Veteran Posts: 338 Location: NE TX	Wanting to burn off some weeds and stuff in my pasture and plant/spread Bermuda seed. When would you recommend? After this winter/spring I’ll do pre-emergent to keep stuff away but there’s some really bad over grown areas that have been ignored for at least 3 years.
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uno-dos-tres! Reg. Jul 2004	Posted 2017-12-15 6:05 PM Subject: RE: BUrning and spreading/planting?
Expert Posts: 4766 Location: Bandera, TX	Talk to your extension agent for the county you live in. Then contact your county fire marshal. You need to have a plan and team in place 15 days ahead of time. We burn in mid to late Feb. the humidity is low and the winds are right. We can't have any stock in that particular pasture so there's plenty of fuel load for the fire to do its thing. You need to plan ahead and have enough grazing acres in another location to subsitute your loss of grazing till the pasture is ready for stock.
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BARRELHORSE USA Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2017-12-16 9:42 PM Subject: RE: BUrning and spreading/planting?
	Flamin10 - 2017-12-14 5:03 PM Wanting to burn off some weeds and stuff in my pasture and plant/spread Bermuda seed. When would you recommend? After this winter/spring I’ll do pre-emergent to keep stuff away but there’s some really bad over grown areas that have been ignored for at least 3 years. In North East Texas there is no reason to burn ... you will activate a lot of weed seeds that lie dormant unless they are heated by fire. Brush hogging is your best thing to do. Let the waste lie out and become mulch to better your soil. Weeds sprout and grow their roots from December thru early spring .... so spray your weed killer in early March before your spring grass shows it's ugly face. If you don't believe the weed sprouting ... start looking hard at the very surface of the ground ... there are little green leaves lying flat against the ground growing roots and ready to grow a stem when ground heats up to over 50* in May. If you can over graze the spring grass do so or brush hog it in late April and then IMMEDIATELY spread your Bermuda grass seed and DO NOT FERTILIZE AT THIS TIME. You can add several hundreds of pounds of sand to your whirly bird spreader to get a better and wider coverage with your tiny Bermuda grass seed. Let the rain wash and cover your Bermuda seed and any other rooted Bermuda you have. Bermuda grass seed only need 1/8 to 1/4 inch coverage to take root. Spring grass automatically dies around May 15th just like oats and wheat does ... if it is thick and tall .. mow it down close to the ground so it does not shade your seed sprouts and smother them out .. The ground has started to heat up to 50* which wakes up your Bermuda grass seed so be ready to fertilize the 3rd-4th weeks of May to feed the Bermuda grass and NOT the spring grass that will choke out your Bermuda grass seedlings if you fertilize when you spread your seed. Evidently your pasture has lacked care in the past and has a lot of weeds ... so be ready to brush hog or weed spray again in June ... you do not want sharp mower blades ... you will want dull blades to bust up the weed stalk and kill it ... sharp blades tick off the weeds and they grow even faster for revenge .... lol Keep in mind the weeds in the past have sucked all the nutrients out of your soil ... so load up with triple 21 or triple 25 fertilizer to refuel your soil at 150-200 lbs/acre. Ignore your county agents ... they are bookworms and label readers that sit at desks all the time ... just think ... if they were as smart as some people think ... they would be very successful farmers and ranchers rather than desk sitters ... lol GOOD LUCK ... always kill your weeds since they use 10x the nutrients and water as grass does
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Flamin10 Reg. Nov 2008	Posted 2017-12-17 3:29 PM Subject: RE: BUrning and spreading/planting?
Extreme Veteran Posts: 338 Location: NE TX	I’m part of my local volunteer fire department and we have some new guys fresh out of the academy that want to “play”. I have gates that can close and block off the areas I want to burn. All of that isn’t an issue. What is an issue is I don’t have a tractor nor the ability to get one to brush hog so it’s either burn and spray what comes back or pull it all by hand. I have tried with my riding mower but it’s broken twice and chain saw and clippers are taking too long. Like I said it’s been over grown for at LEAST 3 years. The weeds are at least 4-6ft tall.
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BARRELHORSE USA Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2017-12-20 12:54 AM Subject: RE: BUrning and spreading/planting?
	Flamin10 - 2017-12-17 3:29 PM I’m part of my local volunteer fire department and we have some new guys fresh out of the academy that want to “play”. I have gates that can close and block off the areas I want to burn. All of that isn’t an issue. What is an issue is I don’t have a tractor nor the ability to get one to brush hog so it’s either burn and spray what comes back or pull it all by hand. I have tried with my riding mower but it’s broken twice and chain saw and clippers are taking too long. Like I said it’s been over grown for at LEAST 3 years. The weeds are at least 4-6ft tall. Since you are hooked up with some local pyromaniacs ... BURN BABY BURN ... lol What do you have 1-2-3 acres? If so, you can buy a small weed spray rig and a whirly bird or drop fertilizer spreader to take excellent care just pulling them with your lawnmower. or an ATV .. Just make sure you wash your lawnmower down ... both will create rust or discoloration if left on your mower. When applying ... run a crisscross pattern ... north and south ... then east and west to prevent any missed areas ... 2,4-D Amine is a good weed killer .. just add a squirt of dawn dish soap for a surfactant .. (helps keep spray on leaves)
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