Broadcasting corn.... Chronicles of Blue Spruce Outfitters
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Stay tuned. I'm gonna do some food plot work today when it's not 100 degrees! Weird!!! Lol. Oh and plant an acre of a bean/ corn/ sweet corn/ sorghum mix
Well, the broadcasted corn at "Brandon's Plot" seems to be doing rather well, the rains definitely helped. Thin in some spots, thick in others but this is the deal with not using the planter. Going to be over seeding a turnip mix in between and the thin spots come early August. Just put out 200# of Milorganite today.
"Lone Pine" plot soybean/ corn/ sorghum mix is also coming up after just two days! Put another 200# of Milorganite in that plot. Hoping we get some great growth out of it this year. That plot has been a clover plot for the last two years so plenty of organic matter in it. Fingers crossed! Can't wait til deer season!
"Lone Pine" plot soybean/ corn/ sorghum mix is also coming up after just two days! Put another 200# of Milorganite in that plot. Hoping we get some great growth out of it this year. That plot has been a clover plot for the last two years so plenty of organic matter in it. Fingers crossed! Can't wait til deer season!
Here is some of my plots I have going. Was a tough year with wet soil and very clumpy dirt. Corn not doing near as good as last year.
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Well, after a month or so, the Lone Pine plot has a great mix of Eagle beans and some mixed in corn. Put up a "mini tower" to put a ground blind on for my son and it'll be ready to hunt soon!
BSO Update 8/12/18:
It's warm. And dry. We need rain bad here but, the food plots must not know it. Lol.
The corn in "Brandon's Plot" is probably 7-8', all tasseled and almost every stalk has ears on it. Pretty good for a broadcasted, disked in, no Roundup plot! The edge 1/8 acre also is growing in some Merit Seed brassica mix. Pretty excited!
"Lone Pine" grew like a weed and now it looks more like a corn plot than a soybean plot. Beautiful corn/ forage bean mix for the later season. Plus, the bonus of finishing building my son a tower so we could hunt more often together, dubbed "Lucas' Tiny Tower".
The other perennial plots are growing like weeds and need to be mowed.
It's warm. And dry. We need rain bad here but, the food plots must not know it. Lol.
The corn in "Brandon's Plot" is probably 7-8', all tasseled and almost every stalk has ears on it. Pretty good for a broadcasted, disked in, no Roundup plot! The edge 1/8 acre also is growing in some Merit Seed brassica mix. Pretty excited!
"Lone Pine" grew like a weed and now it looks more like a corn plot than a soybean plot. Beautiful corn/ forage bean mix for the later season. Plus, the bonus of finishing building my son a tower so we could hunt more often together, dubbed "Lucas' Tiny Tower".
The other perennial plots are growing like weeds and need to be mowed.
Right?! Wtf. I'm very pleasantly surprised!
Not bad at all! Good to see it worked out so well!
Well. Almost ready for deer season! Found out the forage soybean plot has WAY too much sorghum in it to even shoot through. So I went. Old school and hacked down a bunch with a machete for shooting lanes. The beans are over Lucas' midget head, so over 3' tall. Should be a great season!
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That's looking very deery! Glad to see the work is starting to show some promise.
Very nice. I love the height of the beans. How big of an area did you plant. I want to try the eagle beans but I’m afraid all of the deer will just mow it down and not even let it grow.