Brown Top Millet ?

[eyeseeker]

Has anyone ever planted this stuff ? I'm trying to find something that I can plant for a fall dove/turkey plot that the deer will leave alone long enough for it to produce some seed. Deer ate my entire 1 acre plot of sunflowers !

 

[double browtine]

Try some forage sorghum. It grows to like 8 foot tall and produces a large seed head.

 

[Trapper John]

It'll mature in 60 or so days and is a fairly heavy seed producer. We've killed a number of dove over small plots of it as well as white proso millet which will produce seed in about 60-70 days.

Turkey frequent the plots of it as well. As will quail.

The white proso will drop seeds later into the fall than the brown top.

 

[Beekeeper]

Buck Wheat is also good.

 

[Trapper John]

Buckwheat makes an excellent short term dove and turkey plot. Just be warned it'll die at the first frost and compared to other things it doesn't produce "that" much seed, although it's certainly enough to hunt around if that's what you're after.

I also use buckwheat to keep deer off of other plantings before they mature. It saved my second attempt at planting dwarf essex rape after the deer mauled it the first year.

 

[jmb4wd]

Its funny you mentioned brown top millet. My daughter and I sowed some last year, and I just disced it under this spring, and man do have a stand of it now!!! Here is a pic of one of the seed heads, I couldnt get my camera to focus as it was getting dark, so it is up against my truck window.
Lots of tiny seeds.

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[Football Hunter]

great for a dove field,little late for planting Id say for doves this year

 

[eyeseeker]

Yeah...I was thinking more for next year. Tired of throwing money and effort into the sunflowers just to have the deer eat them shortly after they emerge.

 

[Football Hunter]

Yeah...I was thinking more for next year. Tired of throwing money and effort into the sunflowers just to have the deer eat them shortly after they emerge.

yep,been there