Tillage Radishes

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[@kolapyellow7631]

Will try this radishes for my clay soil in the garden bed.

[@johac7637]

I do it in Arizona, it works, but for Mr it's a cool weather crop ( Nov-May) I plant it with buckwheat, Austrian winter peas, and regular grocery store dried peas.
It has improved my organic matter, and fertility, I don't get enough cold to kill those plants, so I mow, lightly til, then heat loving crops.

[@BrandonTran]

I love the strategy. I’d love to do this to my lawn but it would be hard to not cut for a couple months

[@Groucho_Marxist_ASMR]

I tried broadcasting tillage radish into my lawn and got nothing. I did a blend of about 40 different seeds and the only thing that came up was sorghum and a little bit of buckwheat.

[@jasonmcmillan6598]

shame the Extension Service is still wrong about animal compaction. The most important factor in compaction is the amount of time spent in a given area- not the amount of weight.

[@raurkegoose5233]

Exactly. The problem is that extension folks, scientists, etc are about 2 decades behind the times.

[@tiredowalkin]

Thank God there are experts out there, interesting

[@zefrum3]

no Im prety sure compaction is really a matter of a significant force over an area, eg pressure. The dweling time cant be that much of an issue. But i would venture to guess that wheeled vehicles can compact even more by causing shear forces in he soil; where cattle wouldnt.

[@KCSnuff]

True. But this is an excellent way to help repair the damage when it's done

[@johac7637]

So your telling me a what called sheep's foot packer used for compaction on road construction are not working, in old times they drove cattle, sheep/goats to do compaction.