Whose been foodploting?

[churly]

This past weekend I did mine up on mid tn. Lease. Planted the biggest variety I have planted in years.

Plot1: antler king honey hole ( daikon radish, several different turnips and tubers, and clover)

Plot2: mix of austrian winter peas, whistler peas, oats, and chickory

Plot3: bean plot ( soys, lablab, ebony, and iron and clay peas)

Plot4: wheat, oats and imperial clover

Plot5: evolved harvest alfamax (alfalfa, chickory, clover)

Plot6: tetraploid rye grass and imerial clover

Dropped about 500 lbs of 13-13-13 and a 1/2 ton of lime ( never enough).

I usually make a mix and make all the plots pretty much the same, but this year I wanted to plant each seed mix in seperate spots and fertilize and lime evenly to see what my deer like durring different times through the season.

Ive had pop up t storms within a few miles everyday since but I dont think I have had a drop. If I dont get some soon, the turkeys will find it and camp on it till they eat a fourtune in seeds.

Any of you guys turning dirt? If so what and where?

 

[churly]

Please put in hunting forum...doah!

 

[derek81]

That sounds impressive. Keep us posted on the results.

 

[volfans]

Where's all the hit listers. I've not seen any trail can pics.

 

[WackemandStackem11]

Finished all of our plots up this past week. It had not rained in 25 days until Sunday morning and it rained 2 inches which made the 9 hour drive home a lot better. The only bad thing was I did find the first dead buck of the summer from ehd.

 

[Justfishin]

I did alot of the same thing curly i wanted to see what they wanted. I planted each plot with the same seeds except one I mixed some.I planted last friday an had one shower yesterday evening.plot 1 was sugar beets,2 was icicle radishes,3 was whitetail institute tall tine tubers,3 was alfalfa, turnips 4 was whitetail institute pure attraction put out 800 lb of 10-10-10 an 6 tons of lime wanted to do more but it got dark

 

[Bprice]

We turned ours over last weekend, and we are planting next weekend. Our soil report came back good, we spread 1 ton of lime this spring, so PH came back good... need to put down about a quarter ton of phosphorus. We'll be putting out a mix of oats, winter peas, turnips, clover, chicory, rye and rape throughout our 4 plots. Looking forward to next weekend.

 

[Bprice]

We planted Chick-Magnet this spring, and the chicory exploded. Clover was so-so. Our herd absolutely tore up the chicory. It grows really well in our area.

 

[churly]

Got .37" of rain last night...perfect!

I wont pull camera cards till the 28th. I saw two "shooter" bucks with my own eyes this weekend. Does were already checking out the plots before we finished disking. Looking forward to another fun season.

 

[SpurHunter]

Ugh, my once beautiful plots I cleared on top of the ridge this past spring, or the nastiest, thickest tangle of crap ive ever seen grow in just a few months. Its amazing what a little sunshine on bare dirt, and a ton of rain all summer long will do to a mans hard work. I think im going to just round-up the whole place and try to get something in the ground late in the season.

 

[humdinger]

The most important thing to do to clover and all perannuals is to keep it mowed. It keeps the weeds out and the plants tender. Especially clover. When it starts to seed (bloom) mow it! I didn't believe it till I tried it.

 

[churly]

SpurHunter - 9/11/2013 12:41 PM

Ugh, my once beautiful plots I cleared on top of the ridge this past spring, or the nastiest, thickest tangle of crap ive ever seen grow in just a few months. Its amazing what a little sunshine on bare dirt, and a ton of rain all summer long will do to a mans hard work. I think im going to just round-up the whole place and try to get something in the ground late in the season.

I know what you mean. My plots were as thick and nasty as ever. I would spray em hard let em die, and try to get some oats, wheat, or Rye in there by mid october and you will be good to go.

We actually had to use a rock rock rake to rake all of the dead grass and briers out of the plots before we disked the plots. I could have filled a barge up with all of the crap we piled up from them plots.

 

[churly]

humdinger - 9/11/2013 1:04 PM

The most important thing to do to clover and all perannuals is to keep it mowed. It keeps the weeds out and the plants tender. Especially clover. When it starts to seed (bloom) mow it! I didn't believe it till I tried it.

Very good point

 

[Justfishin]

the turkey an the deer keep my clover fairly clean an I thinks its more the turkey than the deer

 

[churly]

Here is a pic from yesterday of my #4 plot. Its a mix of wheat, oats, clover, and turnips(dont remember putting turnips in this one, but they are there...lol). Planted second week in september. All the plots look great, but this is the thickest. Watched some young bucks and does tear it up yesterday morning. Bucks are still in bachelor groups but they are laying down tons of rubs and scrapes this past weekend.

 

[SpurHunter]

Jealous. Mine look like dog crap. I think Ill take you up on that trade. LOL

 

[churly]

Lots of folks are having trouble. I got lucky on a few pop up storms that hit the week after planting. That and a bumper acorn crop to keep the young plants from getting overgrazed has really helped. Gonna be fun places to hunt in a few weeks.