Green Patch Plus

[woodsandwater]

i have read several posts dogging GPP! Has anyone had success with it? Isn't a majority of the seed wheat and oats with some clover and brassicas? Was thinking about planting it so I hoped to find some positive feedback!

thanks

 

[primos32]

me and a friend are planning on planting GPP sometime in the near future. We've done bought it so we hope it works. But it'll be our first try with it

 

[CWT]

Someone may disagree but I'll have to be honest about my own personal experinces and hate to see someone do a lot of hard work for nothing. I planted it in a very high deer population area a few years back and my thought now is. "Don't waste your money or time putting it out... you will be disapointed". I'll never buy biologic products again. It is mostly turnips. The only thing the deer touched was the oats. They never touched the clover or brassicas. Buy you a 50# bag of oats and 3 pounds of crimson clover or ladino and throw in a a couple pounds of rape or turnips and you have your very own homemade bologic and enough to plant a little over an 1/2 acre. I still have 3 bags of full draw in the freezer from 3 years ago. The only product that worked ok for me is the clover plus. The deer did like the chicory but I would not waste any more money on it either. Where that plot was I now have a ladino clover field and it is mowed down.

 

[woodsandwater]

i looked on a bag of GPP and it has 3 varieties of brassicas-
3%- rangi; 1% mairaki; 1% nikos- from the limited research i could find on the 3, none of them are turnips. Anyone heard of these types before?

 

[eightpoint]

Those are forage type brassicas that produce more top forage than turnip bulb. We've had excellent luck with GPP in Georgia for a premix.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I have to say I like GPP. Its not a bad price for a commercial blend either.

 

[Quailman]

I have to say I like GPP. Its not a bad price for a commercial blend either.

Agree completely. I normally make my own mixtures, but I buy at least one bag of GPP every year to mix in with what I am planting. Always had good luck with it.

 

[Food Plot 101]

Ditto.

 

[.300 WSM]

I've planted GPP before and the deer walked right through it, I'm trying a similar blend this year from the Whitetail Institute called "Pure Attraction". It's made up of Austrian Winter Peas,a type of their brassicas and oats.

 

[deerslayer25]

gpp works great i sewed it last year and the deer mowed it all down.. the brassicas,wheat,oats,and clover each come up at different times which makes it so good in my opinion.. it's good stuff.. try it and see the results... i'm in east tennessee too

 

[Split Brow]

GOOD LUCK HERE, ESPECIALLY THOSE FIRST YEAR HARD TO GET TO PLOTS, AND THEN COME BACK AND FROST SEED CLOVER AT THE END OF FEB/EARLY MARCH.

 

[woodsandwater]

checked GGP plot today and it is growing nicely! had two great rains and the plot looks awesome! we will see if they like it!

 

[CWT]

I had my hand on a big bag of that today at my co-op.....there is so much to pick from (plot mixes)

starting to look like a dang feminine hygiene aisle at the kroger.

after much indecisiveness, I got #50 lbs of feed oats ($11.00) and 100 lbs of triple 10 and was outta there.

Sounds Like a good plan. You will be happy with the oats.

 

[deerslayer25]

just curious of how long til the turnips and oats take to germinate in the gpp... the wheat and clover are up now and just curious if the turkeys got the seed b/c they are bigger seeds than the wheat and clover????? thanks fellas

 

[CWT]

The oats are the longest seeds in the bag and light in color & about 1/4 - 1/2 long.

The wheat is about 1/8 -1/4 and brown in color.

You can't hardly tell the turnips and clover apart at the time they come up.

The turnips will have a little bit bigger leaf on them (fatter & rounder) than the clover. The clover it will be very, very small with two leafs. Both will take about a month or so before they really start looking good.

The oats and wheat will be hard to tell apart when it first comes up as they both germinate about the same time. Seems the oats in the gpp was a long sprout when the deer nipped the tops off of them.

If you have seeds coming up I am sure all your seeds in the bag will show up. Thats the thing about blends. The seeds germinate at differnt times so you will have a food sourse all thought hunting season. The big thing about comercial blends is to always make sure that you use the seed rate per acre exactly whats on the bag as not to crowd it. If you did close to the required rate.. and your soil is just half way decent you will have one heck of turnip patch. Some of mine from three years ago were big as softballs. Wish I had taken a picture!