#301361 - 07/16/07 10:10 AM
Question about Turnips
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Rackaholic
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This may be a dumb question but will deer dig turnips up or do they just eat the leaves off a turnip--how does this work? Thanks!!
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#301364 - 07/16/07 10:22 AM
Re: Question about Turnips
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Yes, they will dig them up in the winter. At least they will if they are hungry enough.
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#301436 - 07/16/07 12:42 PM
Re: Question about Turnips
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The year we planted turnips they eat the head then several weeks later they dug them up took one bite off the turnip and left it to rot. Funniest thing I ever saw.
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#301817 - 07/16/07 06:47 PM
Re: Question about Turnips
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Your better off to sell turnip greens on the side of the road and hope a beautiful woman stops to ask directions.
Edited by J&JGUIDE (07/16/07 06:48 PM)
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#301948 - 07/16/07 08:16 PM
Re: Question about Turnips
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Turnips are a great food plot plant. All of the members of the brassica family that have become so popular are related to turnips and their early development as a food plot plant is derived from the great results of using turnips for food plot plants in the Deep South.
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#301975 - 07/16/07 08:32 PM
Re: Question about Turnips
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I planted kale and turnips in my Garden last fall and I never got to taste the kale, the deer tore it up. Deer didn't even touch the turnips until late winter when everything else was gone.
I'll add kale to my winter mix.
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#302166 - 07/16/07 10:10 PM
Re: Question about Turnips
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I did rape and turnips, they ate the rape till it was lip high and never touched the turnips. I'm not saying deer won't eat turnips, I'm saying on my farm, planted side by side with rape, they chose the rape EVERY time, they ate AROUND the turnips. Had I only planted turnips, I have no doubt they would have eaten them. This year I'm planting all rape and skipping the turnip. By the way the turnips were part of a "high dollar" bag of commercial deer plot seed and the rape was "el cheapo" from the local co-op. Just my experience.
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#302276 - 07/17/07 04:41 AM
Re: Question about Turnips
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Lookin4 aBiggun
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will rape grow in a woodlot with little sunlight , basically in hardwoods
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#302340 - 07/17/07 07:03 AM
Re: Question about Turnips
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Turnips, rapes and kale all mature and are preferred at different times, and that is their usefulness. Just because a plant is hit first doesn't mean it is "better." Some plants are not palatable until a specific stage of growth and the best food plot plan is to have plants growing that all hit periods of palatability at different times.
For example, deer will often not touch Iron and Clay peas until they are near maturity, then they wipe them out in short order, but I don't think many will say Iron and Clay peas aren't a good food plot plant.
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