Planting Oats

[MagicBlade]

Is now a good time to plant oats?

Can you just spread them and expect them to grow?

[Wfalls]

Same

[panhandlehunter]

I typically disc, them spread and drag.

[MagicBlade]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Drycreek3189]

Disc lightly as you can. They don't need to be covered too deeply. Half to 3/4" is about right. If you don't cover at all, birds will have a field day.

[Kurdawg]

i tried the toss and mow this year, covered them pretty good with alot of grass, ill see how their doing this weekend

[HoustonHunter]

I typically disc, them spread and drag.

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I think you'll be fine planting now.

[adam_p]

I planted in mid/late September. Spread them out on bare dirt and dragged a fence panel over them. 2/3 of the plot looked really good last weekend, best where it was shaded and held moisture better. Petered out as you moved out of into direct sunlight. It really lacked rain. I fertilized it last week just before it got a good rain. Deer have been utilizing it for 3 weeks now.

[IvoryRoot]

You should be fine. We use a cultivator and come back behind it with a drill. Never tried any other way. We still have a lot of moisture in the soil though.

[Buck-N-Rut]

Army worms got all of ours already.

[jb1312]

Army worms got the ones that I planted on the last weekend of Sept.

Drilling some more in this weekend.