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Quality for Professionals
16 Cropping tips for using the GS 300 M1/ GS 600 M1
Seedbed preparation is always required before reseeding. With the grassland harrow
GS 300 M1 / GS 600 M1, this procedure is optimally accomplished with 4 tine rows.
With its thorough and effective mode of action, the GS 300 M1 / GS 600 M1 can be
optimally integrated in your overall management concept.
The goal of your concept will be to improve yields and to increase the valuable grasses.
Other effects of tilling your fields with the GS 300 M1 / GS 600 M1, such as
Soil aeration,
Regulation of the water balance,
Incorporation of the seed and
Promoting tillering
make a significant contribution to the formation of good crops.
The success of weed control without chemicals and high yields, however, depend very
strongly on you, as you will be required to closely observe the processes in your soil.
Reseeding of grassland is theoretically possible during the entire frost- and snow-free
period. Gaps in the crops should already be reseeded in the spring to prevent weed
competition. As a matter of principle, you should reseed more frequently and therefore
work less aggressively and reduce the seed quantity.
Reseeding can be performed in the spring as soon as the soil has warmed up a little.
The soil must have good trafficability, i.e. the seed should not be "smeared in" in any
case.
Reseeding in the spring has the advantage that the spring humidity and the disturbed
soil can be used as a seedbed. However, despite good germination, the grass can dry
out during a summer drought, and the pressure of the old sod is greater in the spring
due to the stronger growth spurt.
The optimal strength and depth setting, forward speed and the adjustment of the tines
and seeding rate must be set with your understanding of the correlations between the
soil properties and weather conditions, which can vary greatly in different regions.
