Best Spring Food Plot To Plant
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
- It's "planting season", so what should you plant? Here are the Spring food plot planting tips that will keep you on the straight and narrow this season...
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Thanks for your tips, i have been implementing them on my 100 acre property. Rolling buckwheat down and broadcasting seed into it has worked really well for me. I got a 130" buck this fall in heavily hunted area of NY.
Man, that's awesome to hear...happy for you! It really works doesn't it?!
First year for buckwheat here. Here's hoping it gives me a good enough stand to smother everything so I can plant into it without tilling in July!
I hope so too Mike!! Hopefully soon r don't have drought too, that set us back a bit last year.
Great topic! So many scenarios.
So many!
I love purple pole beans. They produce right up till hard frost. More for us than the deer. I am all about improving habitat for humans and wild game. The birds do like the buckwheat. We have a lot of rough grouse. I am gonna grow so sugar beets by the bear bait pile. Using acorns, apples, and whatever else for bear bait this year. My bear bait pile attracts more deer than bear. But archery deer opens few days after 3rd bear hunt. We plant domestic strawberries with our wild strawberries and asparagus. I bought land to retire on. Working on a food forest. And getting deer off cfa land on to my land. Think they hang out on cfa land to out run predators. On edge of deer wintering complex.
Honestly, I'm a big fan of buckwheat mix with beans and peas.
It's ok....can be very extremely ov t browsed in most ar as tho. 1st planted that combo and tested it over 20 years ago. Not a great summertime soil improver either. Depends on acres and if you need to build a deer herd or not. Decent fall mix but you have to add rye to it to make sure there is still food in it towards the heart of the season...it typically will be eaten down to the dirt.
Im probably going to mow my switch grass because I had some foxtail problems. I need to get my quinclorac ordered so I can give it a try after I see my switch is big enough to handle the spraying. I'll spray my winter rye before long, hopefully. Im going to do buckwheat then undecided.. After I'm weed free 100%.
That's perfect Tim! That quincloric will do wonders to completely eliminate that fox tail. Weed free is a VERY good thing 😊
a Little dry in North Central Texas for our food plot
I have two half acre food plots and two watering holes on my 150 acres. The property is very rugged, ridge tops and ravines, and all hard woods. What do you suggest I plant for spring and fall food? I'm surrounded by large tracks of woods and some agricultural mixed in there. Thanks!
Funny, I just had this argument with my father-in-law today. I've been busy clearing our hunting land and expanding it for a food plot. He made a comment about needing to plant soon. He mentioned that the farmers are getting ready to plant. I said I'm not a farmer and I want my food to be ready for the deer to eat in the fall and not the summer. I did plant a small sample plot in the back yard to test my seeds but then we got a bunch of snow.
It depends if you have poor soil or not, I’m doing a spring planting and a fall planting, I’m doing it to help my poor soil, but if I had good soil, I don’t think I would bother doing a summer crop.
@@kylepawelczyk163 Yeah, I planted a soil improvement blend, cover crop, and some screening blends the other day ahead of some heavy rain. I also planted some low forage seeds on my access trail and some clover on my pass through trail where I hunt. My main food plot won't go in until after the summer drought.
Jeff have you Planted any Chestnut Trees, i keep reading more and more about Chestnut trees and once established are one of the cheapest plots money can buy 👍🏻
I have not only because they are a very poor fit until you get south of a midway point in central IL, IN, OH, PA, etc. North of that production and volume decreases as you move north, to a point of rarity in most of MN, WI, MI, northern PA, NY, etc.
I've seen some incredible chestnut orchards in southern IN, OH and into WV. I had a client with over 40 trees all producing, but all of the nuts were gone by early bow season. Incredible trees...lots of volume, and I was down there to help him develop a food plot program for the actual hunting season and so he could build a herd and have a great hunt. Most of the deer left his land during the season.
I'm in SE MN and SW WI and I wouldn't plant them around here...or recommend them other than something cool to play around with, but not count on in any way.
I hope that helps! I've seen thousands of chestnuts sold to areas that should never plant them, by companies happy to sell them in areas where they won't grow or produce, or to folks that think they will be available during the hunting season where they won't. Not trying to be negative on them, but just trying to be realistic with them.
I think someone has already purchased some chestnut trees, and they want Jeff to justify their purchase.
I like how Jeff doesn't sugarcoat his opinions and doesn't coat his seeds either.
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Jeff, been watching your content for awhile. Have some fruit/chestnut trees. Would you say bordering the northern edge of your plots with these trees would be an effective way to incorporate them for maximizing tonnage
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Thanks Jeff, years ago my Grandparents had 2 Chestnut trees and produced well they lived 30 miles north of me. They lost them trees in the early 70's do to Blite. Trees are expensive now days, glad I have White Oak and Red. 👍🏻
Located in NE KS. Going to do the buckwheat for the first time this year. Plant in May/June? Been so dry the last few years I wonder if it will grow much if I wait that long??
Hi Ryan! Ours will go in the ground sometime in early June. But in the end it certainly depends on moisture! We have been starved for it lately, unfortunately
Frost seeded some clover about a month ago.Hope it comes up for the turkeys in May..
Hi D...it's usually a little slower than that, but you never know with the spring we are having!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751There is already some established from last year.🤷🏻
Question about Kentucky bluegrass. I did some major bedding cuts in February and I’m getting a lot of bluegrass coming back in those areas. Kill or keep? Thanks!
Hi Justin! As long as the grass doesn't take over the hardwood regen then no problem at all!
I live in the U.P, what would you recommend planting in small openings in the hardwoods?
Really, layering rye is about your best option und r those conditions. 100#s mid August, then 100#s around labor day and 100 more if needed end of Sept.
If I have rye from last years planting mixed in with my established clover. How do I go about getting rid of the rye and not the clover? Thanks
Hi Justin! You can mow out the rye, or spray the field with Clethodim, which just kills the rye 😊
Jeff. Will buckwheat grow in soil with a PH of 4.5? We expanded a food plot got stumps out and then soil sample. Was very shocked to see that low of a PH.
That's really low! I would get at least a ton of lime on it along with a jug of deer grow plot start on it...then it should do well 😊
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 that's northern Michigan soil 😑
Plant Chestnut trees
I am an organic farmer. Southern MI we plant sweet corn first week of May. U.P. we plant first week of June. I have bees too so clover is a no brainer in orchard. Less mowing and it fixes nitrogen for fruit trees.
I’m in southern Michigan to, Oakland county, I dream to own my own farm some day but I’m a long way away 😂 also what does organic farmer mean? Just that u don’t use and pesticides or anything on the crops?
Hey jeff should i rake out my bedding area so i can get regrowth
Hi Dylan, the sun should cause growth you should never have to do that. We never have and I have never recommended that folks do...
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How poor of soil will buckwheat grow in? I have pipeline "right-of-way" across my property that has shale mixed into the soil from the excavation
It grows in the poorest of soils compared to just about anything else...but of course there are limits to everything! Good pH and adding fertilizer soles most problems...
What is the name of drought clover , I'd like to try that here ?
Hi Steve, that's our Spring Perennial Drought Attack:
www.purewildlifeblends.com/store/spring-perennial-drought-attack
What do I do up here I Ontario?
If I plant my turnip and radish in August it's too late.
Grow season is very short up here
Hi Ian, you just need to plant during mid to Late July, with moisture...
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Hope you like it Connor!
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Today is Monday. Why am I even on stand?? For this.
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@kurtpearson2793 haha....
We had a baby yesterday 😁 Set me back a bit, lol. Hope you had a Happy Easter Kurt!
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@@kurtpearson2793thanks a lot Kurt 😊
is it unusual to have snow in march and april in the midwest? its normal where i live and im in zone 5
Its normal to have snow storms in April...nearly every year a fairly big one. Last year we had hard crusted snow and snow on the ground from late early Dec to late March...never seeing the ground until then. What's unusual is not having snow cover the ground for weeks at a time in January, Feb and March. Really crazy!