This is my 3rd year of planting my food plot that I call a Field of Dreams. The first 2 years of planting have been great. I did have one 1/2 ac. planting problem that I received some type of grass seed with the radish, beet, turnip seed. The grass smothered out 99% of the radish and turnip planting. Then the grasses matured early and died off before summer end. This seed came from one of the 2 highly recommended seed companies on this forum that shall remain un-named. I've never have had a problem with WT Inst. and Evolved Harvest seed and shall continue with that in the future.
My 2015 plans.
1. Frost seed clover on my 2 clover plots I put in 2013. Plus I'm clover seeding the new small 1/4 ac. plot I put in 2014. That 1/4 plot proved to just too small and when cold weather hit it was ate off in couple weeks.
2. I will be enlarging that new plot to about 1.0 ac. by removing about 20-25 cedar trees and honey suckle bushes. I will plant WT Inst, cover with a cover crop of WT Inst. No Plow. Need to get the trees removed and grass sprayed with Roundup.
This plot is in the middle of a over grown pasture where there is a main N-S trail comes across the road, passes through the pasture area and crosses my creek to the neighbors property. The nice thing about this plot is it's only 100 yds. from the house and will make a great quick setup for evening hunts.
3. I may put in another 1/2 ac. of clover for a total of 1.5 ac. in my bottom 3.0 ac. food plot. After watching the deer for 2 yrs. feed on the clover as the 1st choice I'm convinced that good clover is the main attraction in my food plots. I plant WT. Inst. only and have had great success with it and will continue to plan on using no other clover.
4. Plant 1.0 ac. of WT Inst Forage Oats in my bottom plot. This will be the 3rd year for planting WT. Inst. Forage Oats and after the hard frost and the clover is gone its a great deer food drawer. Easy to grow and grows high fills in good.
5. That leaves me with 1/2 ac. of radish. beets. and turnips. The 1st year the deer only ate the green tops off but the 2nd year the deer started eating the bulbs of the few turnips that didn't get crowded out the the grass. Besides I love to eat turnips.
6. I need to do a better job of mowing my clover patches and may use some broadleaf killer on the weeds in the clover.
7. I plan to bush hog that 1/2 ac. bad grass plot and rake it into piles and burn the damn stuff. Then I'll wait till I get some greenup and Roundup the new growth.
Well that's today's plan and will post as I advance through the year.
My 2015 plans.
1. Frost seed clover on my 2 clover plots I put in 2013. Plus I'm clover seeding the new small 1/4 ac. plot I put in 2014. That 1/4 plot proved to just too small and when cold weather hit it was ate off in couple weeks.
2. I will be enlarging that new plot to about 1.0 ac. by removing about 20-25 cedar trees and honey suckle bushes. I will plant WT Inst, cover with a cover crop of WT Inst. No Plow. Need to get the trees removed and grass sprayed with Roundup.
This plot is in the middle of a over grown pasture where there is a main N-S trail comes across the road, passes through the pasture area and crosses my creek to the neighbors property. The nice thing about this plot is it's only 100 yds. from the house and will make a great quick setup for evening hunts.
3. I may put in another 1/2 ac. of clover for a total of 1.5 ac. in my bottom 3.0 ac. food plot. After watching the deer for 2 yrs. feed on the clover as the 1st choice I'm convinced that good clover is the main attraction in my food plots. I plant WT. Inst. only and have had great success with it and will continue to plan on using no other clover.
4. Plant 1.0 ac. of WT Inst Forage Oats in my bottom plot. This will be the 3rd year for planting WT. Inst. Forage Oats and after the hard frost and the clover is gone its a great deer food drawer. Easy to grow and grows high fills in good.
5. That leaves me with 1/2 ac. of radish. beets. and turnips. The 1st year the deer only ate the green tops off but the 2nd year the deer started eating the bulbs of the few turnips that didn't get crowded out the the grass. Besides I love to eat turnips.
6. I need to do a better job of mowing my clover patches and may use some broadleaf killer on the weeds in the clover.
7. I plan to bush hog that 1/2 ac. bad grass plot and rake it into piles and burn the damn stuff. Then I'll wait till I get some greenup and Roundup the new growth.
Well that's today's plan and will post as I advance through the year.
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