dry cracked field with no grass - anyone else?!

[cob&onion]

My grass is STILL NoT GROWING
Its really dry, hard and cracking. Some bits are very bare.
Its good for my big fat cob but no good for the section D who needs to put on weight
Am considering moving them for a few months but then it puts an extra 10 mins on my journey, no walking and will be much harder to tend to with my 5 month baby as they will be kept on top of a steep hill where you would seriously struggle to get a buggy up, he's too heavy to carry far!
Grrrrr
Seems all we get here is rock solid cracking dusty ground or soggy sloppy clay
Its the winter that did it. I have 2 cobs on 3.5 acres.

Anyone else?
Were in south shropshire.

 

[touchstone]

I've got loads of grass at the moment, the only really bare bit is the track I set up where the sun has burned it off, there are still green shoots appearing though. The rest of the field is fine and I've had to borrow some sheep to keep it down.

 

[Christmas Crumpet]

Am in Dorset but sounds like we have the same type of ground... we're in the Blackmore Vale which is boggy clay in winter and then suddenly goes rock hard within a day or two.

Our grass only really started growing last week and is now shooting up. We did have to fertilise the fields which we did when we knew it was going to rain and that seems to have sorted them out. However, we are inundated with buttercups and lots of weeds too. We reseeded gateways etc but they aren't coming back as well as we'd like.

 

[cob&onion]

However, we are inundated with buttercups

Same here!! normally the buttercups come at the start of may, they disappear by mid june then the clover and nice grass comes through. Everything seems to be so behind this year.

 

[Kallibear]

Ditto. I've started manually watering mine. What we really need is a good downpour. Who'd have though we'd be saying that after last year!

 

[Sprout]

Ground is starting to get a little hard, but we have way too much grass at the moment as I am trying to keep their waistlines trim and avoid lami for the little cushings pony!

 

[putasocinit]

Cant you just supplement with a haynet tiwce a day, you wouldnt want the sec to go the other way of being too fat

 

[BBH]

I have the other problem in that I have far too much grass for my little Sec A fattie. I'm constantly having to find 'bald gaps' for him to slim off.

Far easier to manage big horses me thinks.

 

[Mince Pie]

I'm quite lucky in that my new yard has fields like football pitches, although having said that my lad is a fatty so will have to watch his weight now!

 

[Fools Motto]

Got too much grass, and 2 fat ponios. They have been strip grazed since beginning of April, and so far haven't moved the fence once. Luckily got a herd of cows to graze any other grass first, but even without fertilising it, it is growing like weeds... and yes, got buttercups too!