I had been growing Stylosanthes Hamata in a small patch in backyard garden. It survived summer and with rain, it established well and there were not much other weeds in that patch. Hence wanted to try rice sowing in that patch, not sure how it will compete with grass. Even after cutting it will come back and rice plants will take more time to come above. The seeds were of Rakthashali and put that in water for 24 hours and sown in the place and cut and mulched the grass.
28-June-2025
Rice seedlings are growing,and stylo mulch gives good weed control. I should have put more seeds, since generally in direct broadcasting, lots of seeds gets lost due to various reasons. Stylo does not grow back very aggressively, hence rice does not have good competition. There is heavy rain now, which may be holding stylo back,typically leguminous species does not like much water, while grass varieties goes unaffected, that is a good combination
07-July-25
So far weed control has been very good, rice seedlings are coming up, some weeds are seen, but not weeded yet.
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