Is it to late

Excuse my totally numpty question, but what does harrowing achieve? And what else do you do with your paddocks?
I have been renting 2 acres for 6 months and have just been offered 3 more next door. I intend to use this for the summer while I rest my field for winter, but it's all a learning curve for me!
 
Our YO harrows to level out and scatter the poos, then rolls then fertilisers, it then rains and bobs your uncle nice paddocks!!
 
Ours were done last week (harrow, seeded and rolled), but I poo picked my boys paddock first - no rain forecast for us in the South East so we're going to have very fat pidgeons :)
 
belle31 said:
Our YO harrows to level out and scatter the poos, then rolls then fertilisers, it then rains and bobs your uncle nice paddocks!!
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brighteyes said:
Nice and full of worm eggs...
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You are supposed to harrow when the weather is warm - the poo is scattered thinly and the heat kills any eggs which it will not if poo is left in big piles.

To answer the question further up - harrowing clears dead "scutchy" grass and gives the roots of the healthy grass air and room to grow - another reason why not to harrow in cold weather as the roots will be exposed to the cold and the grass will die
 
cronkmooar said:
You are supposed to harrow when the weather is warm - the poo is scattered thinly and the heat kills any eggs which it will not if poo is left in big piles.

To answer the question further up - harrowing clears dead "scutchy" grass and gives the roots of the healthy grass air and room to grow - another reason why not to harrow in cold weather as the roots will be exposed to the cold and the grass will die
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All our grazing fields are harrowed (farmer owned livery yard) and we do don't have a problem with worm infested horses.
 
This made me lmao - my ex-YO used to much spread all the stable muck over the fields !!! He will harrow them too sometime soon. Good god, glad to be out of that place :D sm x
 
Numpty question: Is there anything extra you should do where the grass has all but disappeared around the gate areas?
 
our ground is now too hard to harrow atm, once we have some rain it will be harrowed to pull out he dead grass and get rid of some of the big lumps of grass and rolled where it needs it.

Rotchana if you want grass there I would put some seed down just before some rain, we tend to reseed patches where we have had gateways in the eleccy fence throughout the winter.

Harrowing and worms, tbh all last summer we didn't get weather hot and (more importantly!) dry enough for this to really work. From a worm point of view I would rather leave the poos as they are as horses will avoid grazing these areas (and their associated worm larvae) anyway.
 
TBH We never poo pick, the fields are harrowed every year and fertilised, they also spread the water from the pond where the muck heap drains to! Is this bad never thought about it really ours are wormed regulary and we have a test done very yr!

Thanks

Liz
 
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