Girls love tractors!  I spent a good part of the day on Saturday working with the tractor and our new disk harrow.  The plan is to get the back half of the middle pasture seeded and growing.  I looked and researched a good grass for this part of Texas and for our somewhat unpredictable periods of extreme heat and extreme drought.  What I have come up with is this:

The information I found says that this improved forage-type bermudagrass is a warm season perennial adapted across the southern 1/3 of the U.S. from California to Virginia.  Cheyenne II can be used for both grazing and hay production throughout the spring and summer months.  It establishes rapidly and provides cover in 45 to 60 days under desirable growing conditions.  It is extremely drought and cold tolerant.

Here’s the part of our back pasture that we’re working on:  this is the first part of the disking, next we will be adding alpaca compost, then redisking.  When we spread the seed we will also be putting down a good nitrogen fertilizer to promote growth.  I am hoping that this work all pays off.  We will have to depend on irrigating since the rain is so unpredictible.  But I hope that in about six weeks I’ll have some pretty little green blades of grass to report to you.  Looks pretty dry and dull now,  but give me some time…..

Our lovely Kubota tractor and new disk harrow.