Food Plots
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Last year I put in several small plots. Mostly winter rye because it is so easy, cheap and not fussy. I figured it would be good for conditioning my soil. ( which is pretty acidic and lacking in nutrients)
It came up well and attracted quite a few deer. I just finished putting in a 1/4 acre big buck clover. Lots of lime and some 6:24:24. Hopefully it does well. Way too much rain right now though.
So much rain in fact that I can't even get on a couple of my small plots. I turned them up, got burried and had to bucket myself out of the muck. lol
If we don't get some dry weather, I will probably just broadcast some winter rye into the muck. It will grow.
It came up well and attracted quite a few deer. I just finished putting in a 1/4 acre big buck clover. Lots of lime and some 6:24:24. Hopefully it does well. Way too much rain right now though.
So much rain in fact that I can't even get on a couple of my small plots. I turned them up, got burried and had to bucket myself out of the muck. lol
If we don't get some dry weather, I will probably just broadcast some winter rye into the muck. It will grow.
I've used Austrian Winter Peas and oats before, but not sure how they'd do in your climate. The deer love both of those. I used the food plots to attract the deer to my cctv camera area and to distract them from how badly they wanted to jump the fence into the garden and it worked. If you use the oats, plant them thick, they aren't going to get a chance to grow much anyway.
Been my whole summer project!
I put in 2 major food plots this year, a 2 acre bean and forbes (i.e. weeds because my spraying failed) that I just seeded mixture of brassica, winter wheat, and turnips into. Contiguous to that to that is 3 acres of standing ag beans that will be left separated by a grass myscanthus screen, as we as my small new orchard with clover planted around it .
Then in the bottom ground I have another 1.5 acre food plot that was supposed to be half clover and sorghum, but largely failed due to drought, and half brassica and turnip, along with some kale and rape. We'll see how that does, I'm praying for rain for the seed to germinate nicely. Got it in this weekend, supposed to rain tomorrow.
Grass screen along the ag beans, first year, likely wont be enough to screen this year.
This is my weedy bean field, deer are loving it. Some cover as they graze
This is part of that top bean field along the trees that just didn't do well, so this is brassica and winter weed seeded over top. To the right you can see the fledgling orchard and the overgrown clover, need to by a atv mower next year to keep the weeds down better. My new tower blind will be placed in this corner.
Blind I built, grass screen coming up nicely around it. In front is sprayed down and now seeded with brassica/rape/turnip/kale
I put in 2 major food plots this year, a 2 acre bean and forbes (i.e. weeds because my spraying failed) that I just seeded mixture of brassica, winter wheat, and turnips into. Contiguous to that to that is 3 acres of standing ag beans that will be left separated by a grass myscanthus screen, as we as my small new orchard with clover planted around it .
Then in the bottom ground I have another 1.5 acre food plot that was supposed to be half clover and sorghum, but largely failed due to drought, and half brassica and turnip, along with some kale and rape. We'll see how that does, I'm praying for rain for the seed to germinate nicely. Got it in this weekend, supposed to rain tomorrow.
Grass screen along the ag beans, first year, likely wont be enough to screen this year.
This is my weedy bean field, deer are loving it. Some cover as they graze
This is part of that top bean field along the trees that just didn't do well, so this is brassica and winter weed seeded over top. To the right you can see the fledgling orchard and the overgrown clover, need to by a atv mower next year to keep the weeds down better. My new tower blind will be placed in this corner.
Blind I built, grass screen coming up nicely around it. In front is sprayed down and now seeded with brassica/rape/turnip/kale
Those are some pretty significant fields @Entropyfx. What equipment do you use ?
I have a New Holland compact tractor that does all my work. I bought it with Ag tires and it tore the hell out of my lawn snowblowing in early winter. I switched to turf tires and figured that I would get chains if necessary........its necessary. I have been able to stick that thing in the middle of summer LOL. In the mud, those things are as useful as tits on a boar.
I'm running a 60" King Kutter tiller and bushhog. I don't have a cultipacker so I either use my lawn roller or the turf tires depending on location.
I have a New Holland compact tractor that does all my work. I bought it with Ag tires and it tore the hell out of my lawn snowblowing in early winter. I switched to turf tires and figured that I would get chains if necessary........its necessary. I have been able to stick that thing in the middle of summer LOL. In the mud, those things are as useful as tits on a boar.
I'm running a 60" King Kutter tiller and bushhog. I don't have a cultipacker so I either use my lawn roller or the turf tires depending on location.
Ha, I did this super primitive this year, sxs, sprayer, hand seeder.
Neighbor planted the ag beans. I did mine with a pull behind atv no till drill, designed more for native grass seeding but I got it to work ok for beans, I wanted them spaced more apart then ag beans to seed.
My first buy next year is a atv mower, unless I pull the trigger on a tractor. I hate to buy a tractor without a building up there to store it.
Neighbor planted the ag beans. I did mine with a pull behind atv no till drill, designed more for native grass seeding but I got it to work ok for beans, I wanted them spaced more apart then ag beans to seed.
My first buy next year is a atv mower, unless I pull the trigger on a tractor. I hate to buy a tractor without a building up there to store it.