Food Plots Throw seeds over grass?

[catman529]

Want to plant a sack full of oats, plan to rent a drill to put them in the ground, but thinking I might could get away with spreading seed right over the grass before a rainfall. It's a cut hay field and I want to have a half acre of something extra for the deer for late season doe hunting. I would mow the grass short before sowing.

My main concern here is all the starlings, would they eat all the seeds before they take root? We recently sowed a bunch of fescue seeds behind the house where some dirt was graded, starlings are here all the time but the grass came up great. Just don't want to lose a bunch of my seeds to the birds, is it a good way to plant them by just throwing?


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[longnosedoe]

I wouldn't even mess with oats for a late season plot. If we get cold temps they will winter kill and be of no value to u or the deer.

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

Get some wheat

 

[catman529]

Huh. Supposedly these work really well here, this is what I was advised to buy

hope it works out Ok. Suppose I could also get some cheap wheat to put in as well if needed.

Mowed grass to 1" and then dragged over it to rough the soil a bit, should the seed germinate fine after this weekends rain?



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[wlf89]

yes get you some wheat should be able to get some from coop or somewhere for around $7 for 50lb

 

[RiverRat213]

Spread seed first then mow. If ya have a packer run over it a couple of times after mowing.

 

[MickThompson]

It's not a bad mix, just really late to be planting. I planted some of that very same product the first week of Sept mixed in with clover, turnips, and radish. I top sowed my turnips with no ground prep around 7/7 and they are mid shin high and thick. My FIL did what you are planning to do a couple weeks ago. You need some warm weather and rain to help get that seed up and established before the cold sets in. Get it in the ground sooner than later

 

[catman529]

It's not a bad mix, just really late to be planting. I planted some of that very same product the first week of Sept mixed in with clover, turnips, and radish. I top sowed my turnips with no ground prep around 7/7 and they are mid shin high and thick. My FIL did what you are planning to do a couple weeks ago. You need some warm weather and rain to help get that seed up and established before the cold sets in. Get it in the ground sooner than later

I know it's late, just figured it would be worth a try, only one bag of seed so I'm not set back much at all. It has been unseasonably warm so that is a plus, and it's been wet since I planted, which should help the germination.

I know some of these oats were planted last year on the next property, I don't know what time they were planted but they survived the ice and snow storms and went to seed during turkey season. So they must be some pretty good oats.

The deer already come out to this field in the evening often, the idea here is to grow just a little extra something to attract the deer, particularly post rut, so I can kill some extra jerky before season ends and get some good video of it as well. Let me say the jerky goes thru a deer pretty quick, so I wanted a good spot to kill a couple when my usual spots are getting tough to hunt.


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[chebuck]

Turkeys like the seed to. If they find it before it sprouts. You can consider it gone.

 

[catman529]

Well it's coming up good now. Turkeys found it the day after I planted but I don't know if they even came back. Most of the seed did not get eaten, especially around the treestand which I suppose is a good thing. Here's to hoping it grows OK before the deer eat all the acorns up in the woods.

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