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went with half seven top and half bayou kale, which has a deeper root system to help with clay soils. takes a lot of N and P though and had to breakdown and add some triple 10 to it. itll help keep the soil in place and add some organic material to the soil for next spring and probably shoot some deer out of again.

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Nice! Hadnt Heard of the bayou Kale, sounds like a good addition to plots with highly erodible soil!
Mine is just wheat this year.
yep supposed to help with erosion and soil building. barley is another good one as their roots can get to 6ft deep. i usually mix it up with a legume and a grass as a nurse but the wife wanted sime turnip greens for the freezer this year.

i will say that the bayou kale would make a nice bowhunting plot. this has been out 42 days with minimal water, about knee high and it looks like the deer is already hitting it regardless of my attempts to keep them out. when i tasted it at 6" tall it taste just like the turnips. now it tastes totally different and kind of sweet. it takes a good frost to sweeten turnips up before the deer starts to use them.

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early pollinators like miner bees, sweat bees, tassel flies, bumbles and of course some honey bees enjoying the turnip blooms. we have a lot of native pollinators in tennessee. honey bees are great for wildflowers but do very little pollinating for vegetables. bumbles are more suited to the task.

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miner busy before going undergeound
 

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