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Food Plot Discussion
jrebel:
--- 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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Yes you can plant oats in the fall.....well at least from what I have read. I will be trying some this fall. I'm going to try some of the oats and chicory from the site below.
http://buckforage.com/pages/Products/Buck-Forage-Oats
KFhunter:
look into fall planting of winter peas, to till in the spring.
just before we get the september rains so they have a chance to grow a bit before frost
cougforester:
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nwwanderer:
Always consider moisture, timing and competition. Dry, will not work. Timing off no chance. Competition in place it fails. Many combinations work great, clovers, as many varieties as you can find, is great, moisture and competition critical. Forage type grains, trit, oats, barley usually are best for plots, more cover. Check local seed suppliers first, out of area deer mixes are way over priced and often wrong varieties.
Here is a picture from a week ago, peas and wheat emerged first, sweet clover will take a little more time. I used sweet clover because it is a biennial. Tiny this season so it should escape most grazing this spring and be huge next year. Great nesting cover. This site will get hit hard this summer, probably not much seed production for winter.
T-ROY:
--- Quote from: nwwanderer on June 06, 2019, 06:54:42 AM ---Always consider moisture, timing and competition. Dry, will not work. Timing off no chance. Competition in place it fails. Many combinations work great, clovers, as many varieties as you can find, is great, moisture and competition critical. Forage type grains, trit, oats, barley usually are best for plots, more cover. Check local seed suppliers first, out of area deer mixes are way over priced and often wrong varieties.
Here is a picture from a week ago, peas and wheat emerged first, sweet clover will take a little more time. I used sweet clover because it is a biennial. Tiny this season so it should escape most grazing this spring and be huge next year. Great nesting cover. This site will get hit hard this summer, probably not much seed production for winter.
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did you plant that this spring? , did you spray and then broadcast seed over the dead vegetation?
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