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The damn weather forecaster throw me a bad curve today. They were calling for rain late afternoon today and real heavy downpours over night and on Sunday. So I figured it would be good timing to get my last food plot seeding done.
I didn't do the planting yesterday being my Anniv. and working on the electric in my man cave. Should have done it yesterday and I could have worked inside today. Oh well too late to change that now.
So at 9:00AM I went down and broadcast my WT Inst. Winter Greens on 1/2 ac. Then planned on rototill the 1.0 ac. for the WT Inst. Forage Oats and plant the oats today.
It started light sprinkle when I was broadcasting the Winter Greens and when finished there was a heavy downpour for about 5 minutes.
I really don't think it will be too wet so I'll check in couple hours and I may still be able to get the oats in today. The weather forecast calls for rain off and on for 7 days so it would be good timing to plant.
Went out to the food plot at 3:00PM to check the soil moister. It was fine and the ground was still nice and soft from when I rototilled it so I just ran a disk across it to breakup the surface.
I hooked up my 3 pt. spreader to sow the WT. Inst. Forage Oats. What a great job and just 5 passes to do the 100 ft. wide 1.0 ac. plot. Excellent coverage. Sure the hell beats using the hand crack shoulder bag seeder.
I learned from last years mistake and set the spreader setting at 50% and spread the seed or fertilizer 2 times. A farmer friend explained that to me. I sow seed with the hand crank shoulder bag the same way.
Then I went across the seeded area with my fence drag. I need to find a culdapacker in stead of using the fence drag.
Now I'll just let nature take it's course. It's been a good growing season with having rain every week this year. Heavy rain forecasted for tonight and tomorrow.
The damn weather forecaster throw me a bad curve today. They were calling for rain late afternoon today and real heavy downpours over night and on Sunday. So I figured it would be good timing to get my last food plot seeding done.
I didn't do the planting yesterday being my Anniv. and working on the electric in my man cave. Should have done it yesterday and I could have worked inside today. Oh well too late to change that now.
So at 9:00AM I went down and broadcast my WT Inst. Winter Greens on 1/2 ac. Then planned on rototill the 1.0 ac. for the WT Inst. Forage Oats and plant the oats today.
It started light sprinkle when I was broadcasting the Winter Greens and when finished there was a heavy downpour for about 5 minutes.
I really don't think it will be too wet so I'll check in couple hours and I may still be able to get the oats in today. The weather forecast calls for rain off and on for 7 days so it would be good timing to plant.
Went out to the food plot at 3:00PM to check the soil moister. It was fine and the ground was still nice and soft from when I rototilled it so I just ran a disk across it to breakup the surface.
I hooked up my 3 pt. spreader to sow the WT. Inst. Forage Oats. What a great job and just 5 passes to do the 100 ft. wide 1.0 ac. plot. Excellent coverage. Sure the hell beats using the hand crack shoulder bag seeder.
I learned from last years mistake and set the spreader setting at 50% and spread the seed or fertilizer 2 times. A farmer friend explained that to me. I sow seed with the hand crank shoulder bag the same way.
Then I went across the seeded area with my fence drag. I need to find a culdapacker in stead of using the fence drag.
Now I'll just let nature take it's course. It's been a good growing season with having rain every week this year. Heavy rain forecasted for tonight and tomorrow.
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