Food plots ready!

[msalm]

Almost 4 weeks to the day, I think the local deer population will appreciate this. Took a time out from picking berries to check on the food plot.

 

[Loudenboomer]

Worked Saturday in my food plots spraying and fertilizing. We've had too much rain and stressed our plots.
What a great age to be with the kids. I miss those days, it goes by so fast. Glad you had some time with the youngsters!

 

[markT]

Good looking plot!! Wow. Deer should tear that up. Four weeks? That seems early, but what do I know about deer in WI? Nothing. All the best!!

 

[Coonman300]

Looks great! 3 months til bow season here, 4 months til gun season. We usually plant first week of October. Your plot looks amazing...good look!

 

[338 dude]

I like to plant the last week in August or first week in September depending on the outlook for rain in Tennessee

 

[msalm]

It was planted early, last year I planted at the end of August and it turned out well. This may be a bit of experiment but there’s half in straight chicory which I can mow and the other half is daikon radish, clover and forage rape. Just seeing if I can get more biomass for the cold...we’ll see!

 

[snert]

You must stick those kids toes in fertilizer! They are growing prettier and handsomer than the food plot!

 

[338 dude]

Looks pretty damn good so far

 

[DogBuster]

Looks great

weeds took mine over....

Sunflowers mostly in mine

 

[284winner]

Planted a spring plot but without rain so far, it's toast. Usually just plant them for the fertilizer factor for my fall plot. Won't be much of that this year. End of August I'll plant a fall forage and radish mix. Oats, peas, wheat and rye mostly with some radishes mixed in. Last year I did radish and turnips and hardly had deer in the plot when hunting till late December. Kinda want an early fall feed plot. Hope this years is the ticket.

 

[msalm]

I’ve found the chicory (straight) really draws them in during the fall when the beans turn brown and the grasses go dormant. The brassicas don’t do much until the cold weather sets in for good. Just my impression and nothing more.

 

[Immike]

I enjoy planting the food plots and watching them grow almost as much as the hunting. I feel that the resourceful hunter has earned his success and replaced it through the action of feeding the herd.

 

[msalm]

This food plot is right behind our house on our 10 acres. I use it for youth hunts, and bow hunting but leave it be and hunt elsewhere during the rifle hunt. Along with that there’s hundreds of apple trees on our place and the pasture to the north... in the fall we see a lot of deer! Last year I also got pics of a bobcat several times. I enjoy making rabbit piles and generally giving critters food and cover. A pond will hopefully be the next project.

Here’s a couple fawns that were outside my son’s bedroom window a few mornings ago.

 

[GotRDid]

That looks amazing!
Good Friend just bought a homestead near me, and I helped him develop 1.3 acres to attract/feed the local Deer/Turkey.
Sprayed herbicide, then plowed/disced, and sprayed again. Hit it with the disc set to break up clods better, but we really need a roto-tiller. Added 200 lbs pelletized lime, and 250 lbs of 12-12-12 fertilizer (needed another 150 lbs of fertilizer but no one had anything left in stock). Ordinarily I would have preferred 10-20-20, but you take what you can get.
This is Whitetail Institute Clover on the main field, with No-Plow close to the house.
Took a week to prep the ground, and with rain eminent, we chose to do all the additives/seed in one afternoon the day before front was expected.



We also need a mechanized way to do the broadcast spreading.

 

[GotRDid]

My shirt came off after the first hour; it climbed to 94 degrees.
We got good steady rain on the two days following planting; approx 3/4" each day.
Next image is after one week.


I hate to hoe!!!

 

[GotRDid]

3 weeks and it is coming along.

 

[GotRDid]

In late September, we are prepping/planting an additional 2 acres in Winter Greens, and Tall Tine Tubers for late season. May supplement with some radishes and chicory as well.
My Bud is absolutely astonished at our results in spite of the hard work, and equipment shortages.
I am happy for him; all the products we used were my house warming gift to him and his Wife.
GotRDid.

 

[CaptainMal]

Truly amazing. I waste mega dollars on Whitetail Institute products each year and normally get near NOTHING. If it were not for local Georgia oats it would be nothing. The heat and total lack of water when I can do the planting in early September blows out most all growth. Great to see how lush you have the plots and quickly.

Next is the kids in the field. In Georgia they would be seriously threatened by snakes. Nasty, poisonous snakes. soon as I saw that first picture I looked to see where you were. Makes sense now.

Enjoy your work.

 

[msalm]

I only have a brush hog and a 6’ rototiller for my tractor...still need something for a cultipacker but even a 4 wheeler run up and down to pack the ground after seeding works...just slow. I haven’t used any sprays/herbicides yet and hope not to. So far mowing it off, tilling then planting has given the seed enough of a head start to compete with any weeds.

As far as snakes, I still have yet to see a poisonous on here in WI, there are a few timber rattlers but not in this area. Garter, bull, and red bellies is about it.

 

[msalm]

Here is a clover/chicory mix I left from last year. It’s been mowed once and needs it again soon.