It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve shared progress on the pasture. Now that the pasture fence is almost complete, it’s starting to look a little more like pasture and less like a random patch of weeds.

Starting To Fill In

It’s getting easier to spot the clover and the alfalfa. The various grasses are filling in.

Clover, Alfalfa, and Grasses

If you consider its only rained two or three times since the pasture was seeded it doesn’t look too bad.

Volunteer Corn Growing In The Pasture

One problem with working with an old corn field is all of the corn that was missed during last year’s harvest. Some of the stray ears of corn were covered with enough dirt to cause the kernels to sprout. The result – random spots of volunteer corn throughout the pasture. There’s an easy fix to this. Now that the corn is past 4 leaves tall a simple pass over with the mower should kill it.