Got an old pasture i want to get prepped for planting a dove field this spring. Not sure what i will plant yet, but just for getting the ground prepped wanted to see what some of you more experienced guys would do.
The pasture was old fescue matted, pain the ass to disc, shit... i sprayed areas of it with glypho and that did a decent enough job, but it would come right back. took it up a notch back in the fall and hit it hard with imazipyr (sp?) and that killed it deader than all hell. I havent tried to disc it again yet but it seems to have dried up pretty good to where i could likely get to the soil.
The question becomes - should i go to the time and effort to get the area burned? only talking 7-8 acres here, so if i do it through the SC forestry commission they are charging me a flat $500 to burn it.. .not sure i want to get that much money into it. Guess the trade off is time it will take to disc through all the dead grass and weeds.
May not be enough info to go on, but would you go to the expense of burning it? or just take to it with the disk and try to get to dirt by disking it over and over again until it gets turned over pretty good? If i dont burn am i going to be faced with more/less weed problems after i get it turned?
Any advice is appreciated. New at this and small time weekender, so learning as i go.
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