{"id":2788,"date":"2013-02-28T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2013-02-28T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:42:37","slug":"frost-seeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/2013\/02\/28\/frost-seeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost seeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frost seeding can be a good option in Northeastern hopyards.\u00a0 Establishing a solid intercrop can help keep down weedy species, and in the case of legumes, can add fertility to your soil.\u00a0 Frost seeding should occur\u00a0 in the early spring when the ground freezes at night and thaws during the day.\u00a0 While frost seeding can be done over a thin layer of snow, it is best to seed it into a field where you can see bare soil to ensure good seed-to-soil contact.\u00a0 The freeze-thaw cycle will cause the seed to fall into the cracks in the soil and germinate.\u00a0 If there is rapid snow melt, however, it can wash the seed right off of the field.\u00a0 Red and white clovers will work best in your hopyard as they germinate quickly and at cool temperatures.\u00a0 They should be seeded at 2-4 lbs\/acre.<\/p>\n<p>Our very own Dr. Heather Darby wrote an article about frost seeding into hay and pasture land, and the principles are very similar for implementing in a hopyard.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/cropsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/frostseeding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">To read the full article, please click here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frost seeding can be a good option in Northeastern hopyards.\u00a0 Establishing a solid intercrop can help keep down weedy species, and in the case of legumes, can add fertility to your soil.\u00a0 Frost seeding should occur\u00a0 in the early spring when the ground freezes at night and thaws during the day.\u00a0 While frost seeding can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/2013\/02\/28\/frost-seeding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frost seeding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45539,36684,36695,36689,36704,36708,36709,15888,551,36680],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-frost-seeding","tag-hop","tag-hop-pests","tag-hops","tag-hopyard","tag-ipm","tag-pest-management","tag-uvm-extension","tag-vermont","tag-whats-hoppening","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"hoppenin","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/author\/hoppenin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}