Planting A Food Plot And Letting Weeds Take Over?! (Good Weeds!)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Dr. Marcus Lashley with the University of Florida Deer lab, discusses how you can improve and increase habitat for deer, turkey and other wildlife on your property. "Daylighting" roads allows sunlight to hit the ground and things to grow. Implementing certain maintenance practices like discing, burning and spot spraying can help maintain desirable species within the plant community. Establishing and maintaining these plant communities can increase habitat and food for deer, turkey and other wildlife species.
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Mine is a well-established perennial plot. Clover blend, alfalfa and chicory.
I let it go nuts until August when I broadcast winter rye and mow.
I do not terminate the rye or spray any chemicals.
My plot is still clover dominated after many years.
Nice!!
Great video! Our property is an hour from Gainesville. Will be looking out for that ragweed
Thanks for the great video, Dr. Ashley. Would you say the same to be true for Northwest WI where I live? I’ve been a follower of Dr. Grant Woods, and come time to plant in early August (no-till), I’m always torn between letting the rag wood stand or terminating with glyphosate before I plant. I increased my planting rate this fall in an attempt to get a better fall/spring production of winter wheat/rye (I use Green Cover Seeds Northern/Fall Release blend), so that I can roller crimp for weed suppression when I plant the Summer Release blend. I had no idea deer liked ragweed, but I always see turkeys and poults in the late summer milling about in the ragweed and other stuff that germinates. Sure would appreciate your reply! Patrick Wolf
Rag weed plants have the same crude protein levels (about 30%) regardless of their location geographically. They are highly selected by deer and offer good structure for turkey poults and quail chicks. We would always recommend managing parts of a property for native vegetation, and not just rag weed, but a good composition of native plants. There are many native species aside from rag weed that are highly selected and high in crude protein. Disturbances like burning, discing or spraying will encourage herbaceous plants (good) disturbances during the spring will encourage grasses (not so good) Hope this is helpful!
Love these videos! Keep them coming.
Thanks for the videos. Glad to see someone doing wildlife management in pine timber since most of the south U.S. is pine plantations.
Central Wisconsin and some of the only affordable land in the state is also pine plantations for miles and miles
Did the clover continue to grow in the bottom or was it choked out?
There was still some clovers. Its very shade tolerant and although it might become sparse, it wasn't completely gone.
What's good for the bird is good for the herd.
Amen!
Why would you want weeds in your foodplot? I understand feathering the edge and providing structure, but I don't consider that part of the foodplot that I'm planting. If I'm paying for seed, I want as much of that seed as possible to germinate and thrive. I absolutely DO NOT want competition from weeds that will be dormant during the fall and not nearly as beneficial, from a good standpoint, as a fall food source...
You must have misunderstood the context of the video. The daylighted road was planted in clover as a food plot initially. With one application of discing, the response from the plant community was highly selected and highly nutritious native forbs. These forbs not only provide high quality forage for deer turkeys and other wildlife, they provide excellent structure and brooding cover for poults and chicks. Structure that no food plot offers. The advantage and point of the video was that if maintained you can have both food and cover without any cost of seed, lime, fertilizer and any other cost associated with planting a food plot. And don't misconstrue, we LOVE planting food plots. But, there are other creative and cost effective ways to improve the habitat on your property, and this is one of them.
Anyone who discs and plows has a small penis who needs a big machine. Nothing like terminating a free biodiverse ecology with hundreds of plants and animals species to create one plant to feed one animal for one month out of the year just to make it's rack bigger and your penis more useless