Vetch-oat mixture - a universal option

A proven grass mixture is used to provide livestock with green fodder, hay preparation and as a siderata. Vetch-oat mixture is widely used in the rotation of many farms in the country. An excellent tandem of leguminous and cereal plants gives an excellent result for any of its uses.

Siderat

Vetch-oat mixture works well as siderat - plants that quickly form a green mass. They help the soil to recover, working as an environmentally friendly natural fertilizer.

They are sown in two ways:

• Before planting the cultivated crop. Early spring planting allows solving two problems: provides soil with nutrients and does not allow weeds to grow. For a couple of weeks before planting the main crop, the siderat is completely mowed, crushed and immediately buried in the ground. To speed up the decomposition process watered.
• After harvesting. If possible, it is better to bring the plants to the flowering state. During this period, they have the largest number of growth stimulants, nutrients. They quickly decompose, enriching the soil. You can not allow the formation of coarse stems - they are badly rotted and become a source of fungal and viral diseases.

For gardening areas or vegetable gardens, the most suitable is the vetch-oat mixture. The seeding rate is 350-400 grams per 1 hundred parts (70% of the wiki seeds by 30% oat seed). According to their nutritional qualities, such a siderate can be compared with the introduction of up to 35 tons of manure per 1 ha into the soil.

Terms of sowing and harvesting

Vetch-oat mixture can be sown in autumn, spring and summer. Sow to a depth of 2 to 5 cm, with a gap between the rows of 8-12 cm already on the 6th day there are shoots. Special care is not required. Plants calmly tolerate drought, lack of light (can grow in the shade), withstand frosts up to 7 ⁰ С.

A month later, you can mow down for embedding in the soil, and over the summer it can be done twice. If the mixture is grown on hay, then wait for the beginning of the formation of beans, for silage - for their mass formation, for green mass - the beginning of flowering. When grown on seeds, a separate harvesting method is used, waiting for the ripening and ripening of the beans on the middle and lower parts of the plants.

Green food

The planned production and rational use of green forage in the pasture period is called a green conveyor. Its effectiveness directly depends on the selection of crops.

Oats - one of the most common forage crops. This is the best partner for sowing with leguminous plants. The vetch-oat mixture in the conditions of the middle belt and the Non-Black Earth region is of greatest importance in the turnover of the green conveyor.

After a month or two, the herbage can already be fed. The difference in the timing of sowing at different sites in two to three weeks makes it possible to use the feeding areas more rationally. For a season of such terms can be from two to five, depending on the natural and climatic zone.

Longevity of pasture use directly depends on the correct selection of the sown grass. Grass mixtures of legumes and cereals use nutrients and soil moisture more fully. This is due to the fact that the root systems (friable and rod) are located evenly in different horizons. This is a vetch-oat mixture. Seeding rate per 1 hectare is 180 kg of seeds, oats account for 80 kg, and for vetch - 100 kg. Excess green mass is used for harvesting silage or hay.

Benefits

In addition, the combination of wiki and oats can be grown almost throughout the country, this mixture has other advantages:

• Well eaten by animals. One cow per day absorbs up to 50 kg of green mass, and in the period of oat and vetch ovulation, up to 65 kg.
• Rapidly grows after podkashivaniya or bleeding. For a pasture period, one plot can be sown up to five times.
• Has a high yield. The yield of green mass can be up to 180 c / ha, hay - 50 c / ha.
• It protects the soil. Improves its structure, protects from washing and weathering, destroys weeds.