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Food Plot Discussion
idaho guy:
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--- Quote from: idaho guy on April 13, 2019, 05:53:12 PM ---Tag going to try one for first time. I think I will at least do oats had some growing in the gravel by my barn just from spillage from the horse grain! I think even I can grow oats :chuckle:
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What kind of oats are you guys growing?
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I’m not sure I can get some in bulk down by Worley Idaho i never asked what kind? Didn’t know there was different kinds :chuckle:
KFhunter:
There's lot's of different oats, I forget the type I'm using but I got it locally off craigslist a few years back.
Think I paid about 200/ton seed oat, which is suppose to be cleaner and not full of weed seed.
bearpaw:
Lot of oat varieties, most fit into two categories, grain oats or grazing oats. I've used both I can't tell much difference for wildlife? One of the nice things about oats after you plant them you can use 24d to knock out the broadleaf weeds to clean up your plot for future plantings of something else. I just plowed 7 acres of plots, nothing is growing yet and I have fresh elk and deer tracks! :chuckle:
T-ROY:
i will closing a small piece of land later this week in the deer park area i hope, with 1300 feet of power lines running threw it, and everything else is pretty heavily timbered. there is pretty good grass growing on the power lines already. i want to plant something but feel its to late this year for spring planting? I was going to mow it and triple 16 the heck out of it. from my experience, if you disturber the ground too much you end up with some horrible weed problems, thistles and dandelions seem like there are there just waiting for the chance to take over. can you plant oats in the fall? i have a 4 wheeler and a 6 foot chain harrow to work it with, is there any thing you can plant in the the early fall/late summer that will come before hunting season with out water
jasnt:
--- Quote from: T-ROY on June 05, 2019, 08:14:24 PM ---i will closing a small piece of land later this week in the deer park area i hope, with 1300 feet of power lines running threw it, and everything else is pretty heavily timbered. there is pretty good grass growing on the power lines already. i want to plant something but feel its to late this year for spring planting? I was going to mow it and triple 16 the heck out of it. from my experience, if you disturber the ground too much you end up with some horrible weed problems, thistles and dandelions seem like there are there just waiting for the chance to take over. can you plant oats in the fall? i have a 4 wheeler and a 6 foot chain harrow to work it with, is there any thing you can plant in the the early fall/late summer that will come before hunting season with out water
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my plot is in deer park area. Been going 6 years now. Your dealing with whitetail and they don’t like grass. You want legumes and your not too late. We probably got one more frost coming this week if not one before July. Get that area killed off and then get it cleared best you can. Your probably low in nitrogen and a touch acidic but not bad. Maybe hit it with a touch of limestone and get it seeded with a good white tail mix, I like clover, and once it’s up a few inches hit it with a 30/15/15 or something close to that. It may need a little water starting in July.
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