[AT] Canola

[CBear81438 at aol.com]

Well most of the weeds do not survie the winter.  I am hoping i can get 
enough of a stand established to allow the sheep to graze the weeds left before 
they get too tough that they will not eat them.  If my fences were sheep proof, I 
would have let them grze the entire summer.  Maybe next year.  There is a lot 
to be said for grzing as a means of weeding.  

As I understand Canola, we plant it now or a little earlier, then it provides 
pasture until about dec 15, then it is grzed down for the winter, and comes 
back in march and will produce a seed crop.    I ran out of Canola because my 
drill will not cut down enough on the seeding rate.  I planted about 2 times 
the amount I needed to.  So I ran out while going around the 6 acre field on the 
hill.  I finished up with Triticale.  If the canola blooms in the spring and 
tghe triticale is still green, it will look like a big eyeball from the air... 
  Hmm, how could we charge admission to this???!!!!


Had I known that I would run out of seed, I would have sowed it a little 
different.  Really hard to plant a microscopic crop seed such as Canola....

Gotta get back on the tractor

Cecil in OKla