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Final Assessment and Seeding Plan

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She's Tired of picking up rocks! So we put this little tractor to work!

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What happens here

After the bulk of the rock clearing is complete, the farmer observes the significantly improved terrain, noting its transformation from a rough, 'moon-like' surface to a much smoother one. He indicates that some larger rocks will still need to be hand-picked. He plans to continue raking for another estimated four hours to ensure thorough clearing. The next step will be to spread a seed mix including fescue, annual rye grass, and millet. Millet is specifically chosen for its heat and drought tolerance, which will provide necessary shade for the perennial fescue during the dry summer months, allowing it to establish and eventually take over the pasture.

Goal: Prepare the land for new grass growth and ensure long-term pasture health.

Tools and materials

  • Annual Rye Grass Seed — Providing quick ground cover and erosion control
  • Fescue Grass Seed — Establishing perennial pasture grass
  • Millet Seed — Acting as a heat and drought-tolerant shade crop for fescue

What they say

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alright guys you can see right there the sun's going down on Appalachia and I got my best good helper here with me with big smiles on all the way up here did you park this right here yeah so guys you can see we've taken all the rocks and debris and there's still a few rocks out here we'll have to handpick some of these well we're gonna go back and forth with the rake it's probably gonna take me another 4 hours tomorrow I've been out here for about three hours now but you can see it went from the surface of the Moon all rough and rocky to smooth and nice and you can see one of the piles I pulled it up here on top of this pile just to park and stuff what we'll do after this is we'll come in and we'll spread some seed so this little landscape rake and little Reiki Bobby on the back there makes an awesome seed bed so I'll come up here and I'll spread some grass seed down some fescue and some annual rye grass and a little bit of millet millet takes better in the dry time of year it's the wet time of year now but it's going to be in the dry time probably June July so when you're spreading seed in the springtime or the summer time you need to put down something that is heat and drought tolerant if we put the millet down the millet will take and it will shade the fescue the perennial grass and the perennial grass will take back over cool awesome stuff guys so it did a great job SuperDuper happy still got a lot more work to do but look at that awesome just groomed out beautiful guys want to thank you a whole lot for joining me here on the Stoney Ridge farm channel hope you enjoyed some of this footage enjoyed the music in the fellowship we'll see you guys next time on the Stoney Ridge all right

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