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Food Plots...Need some help PLEASE
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 358256" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>First, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES plant unless you have adequate soil moisture. If you plant into dry soil, all of that seed money has just been thrown down a rat-hole.</p><p></p><p>Second, each plant will have a preferred planting depth. If you plant that seed too deep, the newly germinated plants will die before reaching the surface. Tilling in seed is the fastest way to ruin a food plot as tilling usually buries the seed to deep. Cereal grains should only be planted about an inch deep. Clovers should not be buried at all, but should be compacted into just the surface of the soil with a cultipacker. I've seen more clover plots ruined by tilling in the seed than any other mistake.</p><p></p><p>...and by the way, the second most common mistake I see with food plot planting is planting on a given date in late summer or early fall, regardless of soil moisture. If soil moisture isn't adequate, wait. Food plots can be planted as late as mid-October and still do well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 358256, member: 17"] First, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES plant unless you have adequate soil moisture. If you plant into dry soil, all of that seed money has just been thrown down a rat-hole. Second, each plant will have a preferred planting depth. If you plant that seed too deep, the newly germinated plants will die before reaching the surface. Tilling in seed is the fastest way to ruin a food plot as tilling usually buries the seed to deep. Cereal grains should only be planted about an inch deep. Clovers should not be buried at all, but should be compacted into just the surface of the soil with a cultipacker. I've seen more clover plots ruined by tilling in the seed than any other mistake. ...and by the way, the second most common mistake I see with food plot planting is planting on a given date in late summer or early fall, regardless of soil moisture. If soil moisture isn't adequate, wait. Food plots can be planted as late as mid-October and still do well. [/QUOTE]
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