Food Plots Waited too long..

[BSK]

Man that's horrible. It's not pleasant when you put so much into something just to watch it wither and die.

Yup, three long days of work and about $1,200 in seed. I'll reseed and pull a chain harrow over plots once it looks like real rain coming, but I won't use the full complement of seed I did the first time, considering the short growing season left. Probably just wheat and crimson clover.

 

[BigAl]

Still no rain in sight here. Still holding on to my seed.

 

[hitek7]

Yup, three long days of work and about $1,200 in seed. I'll reseed and pull a chain harrow over plots once it looks like real rain coming, but I won't use the full complement of seed I did the first time, considering the short growing season left. Probably just wheat and crimson clover.

I have bought bags of wheat seed and that is all I will touch up my fields with. Have a bag of clover as well.

 

[BSK]

I have bought bags of wheat seed and that is all I will touch up my fields with. Have a bag of clover as well.

Yup, that's what I'm going to go with. I'll pass on the Buckwheat and Austrian Winter Peas. Not enough growing season left for the Buckwheat, and Winter Peas don't germinate well if just broadcast on the surface of the ground. Wheat and crimson clover do OK if just broadcast.

 

[TNTreeman]

Yup, that's what I'm going to go with. I'll pass on the Buckwheat and Austrian Winter Peas. Not enough growing season left for the Buckwheat, and Winter Peas don't germinate well if just broadcast on the surface of the ground. Wheat and crimson clover do OK if just broadcast.

I've got some property in College Grove that's got some very fertile ground with a nice creek running through it. My son had a great garden out there this year and planted Buckwheat as a cover crop. He's got bees out nearby and he says they are all over that BW. I didn't know it was that attractive to them. Deer , Turkey, bees, Ground Hawgs are all in it.

 

[BSK]

I love Buckwheat as a food plot plant. Although I find deer in my area like it better in fall than in summer. It's a staple "cover crop" in all my fall plantings.

 

[muddyboots]

I tilled up one yesterday evening. It just dried up.

 

[BSK]

It will be interesting to see if we get anything out of this Thursday morning and Sunday morning possibility of rain. Some of the models say "a little" others say "nothing at all."

 

[BigAl]

At my house I go an inch of rain on Saturday. Went to the lease 30 minutes away and it still looks like a desert. Still waiting.

 

[BSK]

I'm now watching the weekend of Oct. 8-9 for rain.

 

[wildlifefarmer]

I'm now watching the weekend of Oct. 8-9 for rain.

I hope you can find it for us!!

 

[DoubleRidge]

I'm now watching the weekend of Oct. 8-9 for rain.

I'm so hoping we get it....we really need a slow ground soaker.

 

[BSK]

And now that predicted rain is fading out of the models. Honestly, I'm getting very down about this.

I went back and looked at past trail-camera pictures, and it was in 2019 that we got no rain from mid-August until mid-October. I didn't plant my plots until Oct. 20. By opener of MZ they were up just a few inches. But they did come up and grow.

 

[Bgoodman30]

Here are the crows eating what's left of the plot I sowed several weeks ago... Mother natures a real b!tch sometimes...

 

[Bgoodman30]

80% chance of rain tomorrow night... Fingers crossed.

 

[BigAl]

I put out some seed over the weekend hoping for a little rain. Last chance.