Interesting article on planting a food plot screen. Rutin had mentioned he's planting one.
http://www.frigidforage.com/seed-blends/plot-screen/
http://www.frigidforage.com/seed-blends/plot-screen/
Food plot screen
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Rutin
Senior Member
My buddy Justin did a 1 min promo video of his screen with another one of my buddies (Mike) shooting a very nice 9pt out of it in Nov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmVgRsFE0Hk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmVgRsFE0Hk
Treed
Junior Member
bthompson1004
Member
That IS good stuff...this sounds like a great idea for the property I hunt that gets too much traffic from those that might not always do the right thing...thanks guys.
Rutin
Senior Member
Pretty sure it only takes 60 days to mature. I will keep some updated pics of mine as it grows on the forum. This rain should help a lot! My beans are already sprouting also! I've got beans, clover, and plot screen that are loving this rain right now. The fall plots will go in later this year.
Big_Holla
Senior Member
I'm considering this in places on our farm next spring when I actually have time to plant. It would really do me some good.
Rutin
Senior Member
Best part is it takes little prep work to make this stuff grow. You don't have to lime or fertilize it so its cheap. Your essentially growing weeds! The pH doesn't even have to decent for this stuff to grow. We just tilled an outline, threw the seed down and ran a drag over it, should grow well. Walked out back with the pup a few mins ago and realized the farmer put beans EVERYWHERE!!!! In my plot screen trail, my clover plot, and my brassica plot. Going to get interesting to see how far the beans get before the plot screen over takes it. The clover may be doomed unless I go in and re-till it and replant, which sucks!
The clover might be OK. I planted clover in 2013 and thought I had no crop and was going to disk it under and redo. Well this year I have a good clover crop. I topdressed this spring with clover seed.
I also planted beans and didn't know there was even clover in the mix until this week when I found out the clover is thick and 12" high already. I will top-dress this fall and a frost seeding next spring.
So what I'm saying is it appears clover is a next year crop or so it turns out for me anyway.
Being me since everything is planted I would wait and do a fall top-dressing of clover right before a heavy rain. And another frost top-dressing of clover early next spring. That should give you a good clover crop in 2015.
I also planted beans and didn't know there was even clover in the mix until this week when I found out the clover is thick and 12" high already. I will top-dress this fall and a frost seeding next spring.
So what I'm saying is it appears clover is a next year crop or so it turns out for me anyway.
Being me since everything is planted I would wait and do a fall top-dressing of clover right before a heavy rain. And another frost top-dressing of clover early next spring. That should give you a good clover crop in 2015.
Rutin
Senior Member
Yea that would be a lot less work MK, I'm just going to wait it out and see what happens. If all else I'll have beans in my kill plot rather than clover this year.
bigten05
*Supporting Member*
im putting some of this up in my back yard where i have a plot to keep the deer from seeing my house it might help out a bunch.
Rutin
Senior Member
Trust me it will, that's the main reason I'm doing it since I was too late to get corn in this year.
The Frigid Forage plot screen blend looks pretty good. Not sure what it costs, but a generic bag or two of Sudangrass will accomplish the same thing. Their website says it's got various sorghums... I'm betting sudangrass is a sizeable portion of their blend.