Food Plot Rehab

[HCDH66]

Well, the food plots of brassicas and winter peas I planted Labor Day weekend did not come up due to over 5 weeks of lack of rain. I went out this past weekend and sowed some annual rye on the bare dirt to salvage the plots. It should get decent germination due to the recent rains.

 

[Little FR]

Well, the food plots of brassicas and winter peas I planted Labor Day weekend did not come due to over 5 weeks of lack of rain. I went out this past weekend and sowed some annual rye on the bare dirt to salvage the plots. It should get decent germination due to the recent rains.

Good luck. We’ve been putting down wheat trying to get some ground cover. Going to be a long, sloppy, nasty winter if none grows.

 

[keeruss8]

Well, the food plots of brassicas and winter peas I planted Labor Day weekend did not come up due to over 5 weeks of lack of rain. I went out this past weekend and sowed some annual rye on the bare dirt to salvage the plots. It should get decent germination due to the recent rains.

Rye grass or cereal/winter rye?

 

[HCDH66]

Rye grass or cereal/winter rye?

Winter rye

 

[wolverine1]

I got my food plots in the first week of September and its been DISMAL to say the least from lack of rain! I've spread cereal rye twice hoping for some germination, but its been spotty at best. I took the Groundhog Max out Saturday and ripped up the hard ground with it and reseeded and cultipacked. Hopefully it germinates after the rains we got yesterday/this morning. I had to put my Gator in 4wd to use it, ground was like a rock

 

[HCDH66]

I got my food plots in the first week of September and its been DISMAL to say the least from lack of rain! I've spread cereal rye twice hoping for some germination, but its been spotty at best. I took the Groundhog Max out Saturday and ripped up the hard ground with it and reseeded and cultipacked. Hopefully it germinates after the rains we got yesterday/this morning. I had to put my Gator in 4wd to use it, ground was like a rock

Best of luck. It has been a challenging year for fall food plots to say the least. But, at least in my area, the deer numbers are plentiful. More deer and more deer action than I have seen on this property during early muzzleloader season.

 

[keeruss8]

Winter rye

Yeah it should take right off. I got some ww spread a couple weeks ago right before a lil rain and it's up pretty good already

 

[wolverine1]

Winter rye is definitely my "go to" when everything else fails!

 

[keeruss8]

That drought didn't do the brassica any favors. Last couple years they'd be thigh high by now. Might be a few inches this year. So winter wheat it is lol

 

[Tankt]

My wheat still looks great. Turnips are 80% loss. Not touching anything again this year

 

[HCDH66]

My wheat still looks great. Turnips are 80% loss. Not touching anything again this year

My turnip and radish plot looked like the Sahara Desert. That's why I planted rye.

 

[carnivore]

I grabbed a few bags if WW, and am sowing it today. No tilling just on the ground. i didnt do a thing this year because i didnt think we’d get the rain and other projects i have going on. Smart weed dominated my clover from last year and is looking terrible.

 

[OLE RASPY]

Smartweed took over some of my clover. Winter rye did ok. The tops of it is looking yellowish. Big tine brassica didn’t do nothing hardly. Winter peas either.

 

[DH13]

Disc up about 2acs Friday sowed it all in winter wheat. Im done but my son still hunting. Trying to get something he can hunt later on. Rain sure helped out Saturday.

 

[Tankt]

My turnip and radish plot looked like the Sahara Desert. That's why I planted rye.































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Smartweed took over some of my clover. Winter rye did ok. The tops of it is looking yellowish. BigThis time brassica didn’t do nothing hardly. Winter peas either.