I finally attained membership to the lease surrounding my small farm this year and put in three food plots. These are the first plots I have personally put in so I have high hopes they will grow well and bring in some nice ones this year. I will be putting up trail cams and a time lapse cam so hopefully I will be able to post some nice pics over the next couple months. The other members of the lease planted the same area as plots last year but they had grown up quite a bit.
I wanted to wait until the intense heat and bone dry conditions began to wear off so I planned on planting in mid august. Once the cool spell set in last week I decided to get it done. My dad and I bushhogged and baled the plots.
Plowed
On wed morning I put down 1000 pounds of lime on about two acres of plot by hand....bad idea. It was disced on tues evening and wed evening and on thursday I planted it. I used a bag of 12-12-12 fertilizer on each plot. My seed was Frigid Forage Big n Beasty Brassicas which includes Sugar Beets, Purple Top Forage Turnip, Carrots, Winfred Forage Rape, Dwarf Essex Rape, and Hunter Forage Rape/Turnip Hybrid. I also put down Frigid Forage Autumn Quick Plot which includes Winter Rye, Hairy Vetch, Winter Peas and Dwarf Rapeseed. To top it off I used two bags of Evolved Harvest Megaplot which has turnips, triticale, forage oats and clover. I may have overdone the seed but I really am hoping for some lush plots. I will post pics of the progess.
Here is a pic from the top plot looking down towards my place.
I wanted to wait until the intense heat and bone dry conditions began to wear off so I planned on planting in mid august. Once the cool spell set in last week I decided to get it done. My dad and I bushhogged and baled the plots.
Plowed
On wed morning I put down 1000 pounds of lime on about two acres of plot by hand....bad idea. It was disced on tues evening and wed evening and on thursday I planted it. I used a bag of 12-12-12 fertilizer on each plot. My seed was Frigid Forage Big n Beasty Brassicas which includes Sugar Beets, Purple Top Forage Turnip, Carrots, Winfred Forage Rape, Dwarf Essex Rape, and Hunter Forage Rape/Turnip Hybrid. I also put down Frigid Forage Autumn Quick Plot which includes Winter Rye, Hairy Vetch, Winter Peas and Dwarf Rapeseed. To top it off I used two bags of Evolved Harvest Megaplot which has turnips, triticale, forage oats and clover. I may have overdone the seed but I really am hoping for some lush plots. I will post pics of the progess.
Here is a pic from the top plot looking down towards my place.
