Food Plots What now

[leader]

What's good to plant between now and Oct for fall plots?


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[Big Pop]

Wheat, turnips, radishes, rape, oats, clovers. Rye a little later.

 

[woodyard]

I will be planting about 10 acres of wheat and crimson clover. Clover will get up and be desirable to the deer all fall and early spring and then the blooms will be for the honeybees. The wheat will be more desirable next spring and when it heads out. The deer will usually work on it pretty good in my area.

 

[MickThompson]

Any cool season food plot. I'd target the first big rain after Labor Day to sow them.


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[MickThompson]

I will be planting about 10 acres of wheat and crimson clover. Clover will get up and be desirable to the deer all fall and early spring and then the blooms will be for the honeybees. The wheat will be more desirable next spring and when it heads out. The deer will usually work on it pretty good in my area.

Woodyard, I'd add 1# per acre of turnips or rape for the bees. Brassicas put on a ton of yellow flowers in the spring.


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[woodyard]

I will be planting about 10 acres of wheat and crimson clover. Clover will get up and be desirable to the deer all fall and early spring and then the blooms will be for the honeybees. The wheat will be more desirable next spring and when it heads out. The deer will usually work on it pretty good in my area.

Woodyard, I'd add 1# per acre of turnips or rape for the bees. Brassicas put on a ton of yellow flowers in the spring.


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There will most likely be a lot of canola planted close to one of my apiaries and really I had rather not have it there. It tends to crystallize in the frames and very quickly when harvested. They like the crimson clover.

 

[MickThompson]

Woodyard,
I didn't know that about brassica honey. I'd heard how good it was from a bee keeper. Arrowleaf clover is another annual clover like crimson, but it flowers later and can extend the foraging season for both deer and bees.

How about a perennial plot with white clover and chicory? Does chicory make good honey?

What about sunflowers or cowpeas? I've heard of folks planting buckwheat for summer plots/bee forage not don't know much about these 2.


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[woodyard]

Woodyard,
I didn't know that about brassica honey. I'd heard how good it was from a bee keeper. Arrowleaf clover is another annual clover like crimson, but it flowers later and can extend the foraging season for both deer and bees.

How about a perennial plot with white clover and chicory? Does chicory make good honey?

What about sunflowers or cowpeas? I've heard of folks planting buckwheat for summer plots/bee forage not don't know much about these 2.

The canola honey is really good tasting ,just hard to handle since it crystallizes so fast.
White Dutch clover they can make honey with, ladino they can't reach into the flower far enough on some of it to collect nectar. I don't know about chicory. Sunflowers they can and far as cowpeas I don't know if they can get enough nectar to make any. They use more pollen from the peas, because it is high in protein. Buckwheat up north produces a honey crop, around here I am not sure. I planted some one year and it was kind of dry and that may have affected it. Nectar production can vary with how much rain there is for some plants.
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[diamond hunter]

I spray and kill the fescue and the bees benefit in the fall from the partridge peas.Mine are covering up the yellow flowers right now.