jall25 Posted July 26, 2022 Report Share Posted July 26, 2022 Next year maybe have a look at Chicory Jim - yes the deer love it - but it has tap roots and for these drier times is doing us proud up here regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted July 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2022 On 26/07/2022 at 11:29, TIGHTCHOKE said: Oh Jim, you really must prioritise better! Hope your back settles down Mate. Thanks Dave, just about tolerable now (never been good since mid-teens, just have a high pain threshold!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted July 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2022 On 27/07/2022 at 00:44, jall25 said: Next year maybe have a look at Chicory Jim - yes the deer love it - but it has tap roots and for these drier times is doing us proud up here regards The meadow adjacent to one of my covers was drilled a few years ago with a mix of stuff (supposedly "sheep superfood") which has a fairly high amount of chicory in it, mixed with plantain, clover and a couple of different grasses. After being allowed to grow, the chicory, although it looks dense from a distance, when you get in there it's quite sparse. Annoyingly the plantain holds dew on its leaves and gets your trousers soaking wet walking through it on a September morning but none of it works as a holding or flushing cover for the birds. They just don't like being in it. I have to trample a path down by foot or with the car to provide a passage across it from pen to cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted July 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) By bizarre coincidence as I came by this morning I noticed the chicory has burst into flower today! This is how the mix looks, it will not really get much more dense than this except the low lying plantain that soaks your feet and trouser legs! Edited July 31, 2022 by Jim Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jall25 Posted August 1, 2022 Report Share Posted August 1, 2022 Be good for bugs and stuff that will ! The chicory will thicken up - some of mine from last year is 5 ft tall too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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