Just read in WhiteTail News from the WhiteTail Institute (www.whitetailinstitute.com) that if you repeatedly disk a plot in 2-week intervals all through the year, you will reduce total weed seeds by 80%. This process brings seeds to germination, they grow, then are disked under, and the process repeats. Each disk cycle kills thousands of plants, never to regerminate. Over a year, that top layer is depleted. It makes sense if you think about it. And it works better overall than using herbicides because they only work on the plants they touch.
I'm figuring an acre of land has literally billions of weed seeds in the upper 8" of soil. Amazing.
On another note, the buckwheat is 12-15" in places, and the deer are finally taking to it, mowing portions here and there. I'm glad about that, and that means good nutrition and better deer. Slowly my 3 acre goal is coming into focus.
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