They make a quick and easy fall garden too. I planted their peas/radish(daikon)/oats/kale all over my garden in October. We ate buckets of daikon and greens while having a ground cover that added nitrogen to the soil. It was pretty cool and required very little work.
I buy my seed from Deer Creek Seed out of Wisconsin. Very happy with the seed, great germation. Dakin Radish and purple top turnips what I plant last weekend of July here in Minnesota. Definitely try them out!
I tried out multiple different Brassica mixes this year, I will look into them in the future. One of the new blends I tried out this year is the sweet feast Brassica blend from Northwoods Whitetails. It has lots of different Brassica species like kales, rape varieties and daikon radish and purple top turnips.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 FYI don't buy seed from your local sporting goods store, them bags sit on the shelf for years before getting purchased. The germation goes way down the longer it sits. My radish and turnips usually tops out about 30 inches tall around Sept 7-11. Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
I had 4 bags of these blends in my hands yesterday. I've been debating if I wanted to plant them for weeks now. This video has made my decision for me. Beautiful plots buddy
I have a sandy area at my deer camp and if I walk by it, 3-4 horseflies follow me and bounce off my head. Those at your place are crazy. I like the sticky trap idea.
It’s crazy because we went four-wheeling up in Jackson co. We stoped a couple times out in the middle of no where, sometimes right next to some big swaps and tall grass and we didn’t see or feel a single deer fly, but then down here in southern WI, if you go anywhere near a woods, or tall grass, etc. you will get swarmed. For some reason they are really bad around here. They are only bad from the 4th of July to the middle of August, before or after that time period there is little to none. June has almost none, just mosquitos!
Not necessarily. Get to know your soil. Most soils are good enough where you can get away with fertilizer every other year but if you just got a small plot 1/2 acre or so I would recommend fertilizer every year. Might as well grow as much volume you can. I don’t even do soil samples every yr. Every other or every other 2 yrs just to get an idea what I need. 2 bags of 9-23-31 fertilizer would be more than enough on 1/2 plot in most soils. Obviously if you have poor soil and are not located in a heavily ag area you might need to do a lot more to improve your soil. Ph and fertilizer.
last week we planted beets and greens on one side and pure attraction on the other. Worked well last year. We also planted Egyptian wheat for screen that did great. We should have planted it right in front of the treestand and shot over it.
Awesome, what’s all in the pure attraction blend? We plant sorghum for our screening walls. You should look into it as well sorghum will stand up better throughout the winter.
Wintergreens is better. Beets and greens has at least 25% sugar beet seed and it’s not worth it. I didn’t see any of the sugar beets really. You’re supposed to plant sugar beets in June not late July or August like a normal Brassica Planting. The beets and greens does have tillage radish though. I like adding tillage radish with the Wintergreens.
Love the videos man. We planted winter greens and beets and greens about 2 1/2 weeks ago I’m ready to go check them to see how they came up. I’d be happy if my plots look as good as yours!
Wisconsin Whitetail I agree these two mixes are my favorite of what’s out there right now. If I don’t use these I’m buying seed bulk and mixing myself.
Antler King’s Honey Hole is a similar product and one of the better late season forages out there. Honey Hole has Multiple Forage Rapes and Purple top turnips. It just doesn’t offer the multiple kale species, dankion radish and sugar beets like some of the whitetail institute products
Looks great! My only suggestion would be to spray and plant a 10 yard wide border around the plots with winter rye, winter wheat, and clover. And rotate the brassicas out every couple years and plant soybeans or something instead. I was also wondering how those beets did? I’m considering that blend but have heard they don’t do as well because the brassicas out compete them. I’ve been told to plant them separately and a little earlier than the other greens. I know I’m just now joining in, so a response would be appreciated but not expected. Thanks, new subscriber! God bless and good hunting!
This video if from a few years ago and I too have learned quite a it in food plotting since then. The sugar beets did not do well. I don’t even think they came up much. This plot has been corn soybeans and brassicas in the past 2 years.
First off. I really enjoy your attitude an dedication. Stupid question but im gonna ask. Sure you've done it. One time I packed in some winter greens etc. Didn't do worth a shit. Have you ever just tried timing it out when you know you'll get a couple days of a solid rain. That's always been my bread an butter. Haven't watched all your videos yet, but was just curious. Keep up the good work young sir.
I have always had better luck packing the seeds in. If you just broadcast on top of bare dirt you need a good rain to get germination. If the seeds are somewhat incorporated into the soil and packed in then I always seem to get better germination no matter how much rain you get. And it kind of holds the seeds in place if they’re in the soil.
I guess wait for rain, I rarely ever just broadcast my brassicas right on top of the soil and leave them on top. I always try and get them slightly under the ground by either cultipacking or lightly discing them under so I get better germination.
Hope you guys have a great season. Do you hunt over your food plots or place your stands on transition routes to and from the food plots? I dont hunt directly over my food plots down here in West Kentucky.
We hunt and have stands over our clover and kill plots. But we might hunt over our Soybean plot, and wintergreen plots during late bow season if we haven’t got one by that time.
My seed spreader isn’t a very fancy one. I kinda just free hand it, I don’t use a setting. It’s hard to overseed clover but you can definitely over seed Brassica species.
Would love to see an aerial map of where your plots are on your property, I have a property I want to put a late season food plot down, but I'm trying to find a good spot.. somewhere I can enter and exit and not spook them
In the food plot update video coming soon we will be using the drone to get an arial view of the plots. You might be able to get an idea then! We don’t own a lot of the deer bedding and cover our 2 neighbors do. So a lot of our food plots are right on the edge of the cover and are fairly easily accessible without spooking deer.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 curious, what was your PH range? I am starting a couple of 1/2 acre plots on my property in SC and soil is SUPER acidic. Will definitely take a couple of years to reach its potential.
If I were you I would get a bag of winter wheat and broadcast over the top of the brassicas to fill in all the empty spots, The deer love it and will eat that all winter along with the turnips. About 100 lbs an acre.
Thanks for the advice, I will have to maybe try that next year if there are any bare spots in our Brassica fields, the bare spots filled up with weeds pretty quick.
I would think about doing it anyways, at the first frost the weeds will die off and the winter wheat will take over and grow anytime the temp is above freezing during the winter. I do this in soybean fields and after the leaves brown the deer eat the wheat and pods. The wheat will grow fast in the spring to feed the deer and the Turkey's love it to.
They make a quick and easy fall garden too. I planted their peas/radish(daikon)/oats/kale all over my garden in October. We ate buckets of daikon and greens while having a ground cover that added nitrogen to the soil. It was pretty cool and required very little work.
Very nice 👍🏻
Another great plot!
You do very well
Thank you 👍
I buy my seed from Deer Creek Seed out of Wisconsin. Very happy with the seed, great germation. Dakin Radish and purple top turnips what I plant last weekend of July here in Minnesota. Definitely try them out!
I tried out multiple different Brassica mixes this year, I will look into them in the future. One of the new blends I tried out this year is the sweet feast Brassica blend from Northwoods Whitetails. It has lots of different Brassica species like kales, rape varieties and daikon radish and purple top turnips.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 FYI don't buy seed from your local sporting goods store, them bags sit on the shelf for years before getting purchased. The germation goes way down the longer it sits. My radish and turnips usually tops out about 30 inches tall around Sept 7-11. Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
Correct a lot of the seed in stores is old. I bought most of my seed online this year. Good luck this season
I had 4 bags of these blends in my hands yesterday. I've been debating if I wanted to plant them for weeks now. This video has made my decision for me. Beautiful plots buddy
Thanks, I think I had better germination on the wintergreens.
I have a sandy area at my deer camp and if I walk by it, 3-4 horseflies follow me and bounce off my head. Those at your place are crazy. I like the sticky trap idea.
It’s crazy because we went four-wheeling up in Jackson co. We stoped a couple times out in the middle of no where, sometimes right next to some big swaps and tall grass and we didn’t see or feel a single deer fly, but then down here in southern WI, if you go anywhere near a woods, or tall grass, etc. you will get swarmed. For some reason they are really bad around here. They are only bad from the 4th of July to the middle of August, before or after that time period there is little to none. June has almost none, just mosquitos!
is fertilizer needed? i don’t feel like spending the extra money and was wondering if the deer will still eat it
Not necessarily. Get to know your soil. Most soils are good enough where you can get away with fertilizer every other year but if you just got a small plot 1/2 acre or so I would recommend fertilizer every year. Might as well grow as much volume you can. I don’t even do soil samples every yr. Every other or every other 2 yrs just to get an idea what I need. 2 bags of 9-23-31 fertilizer would be more than enough on 1/2 plot in most soils. Obviously if you have poor soil and are not located in a heavily ag area you might need to do a lot more to improve your soil. Ph and fertilizer.
last week we planted beets and greens on one side and pure attraction on the other. Worked well last year. We also planted Egyptian wheat for screen that did great. We should have planted it right in front of the treestand and shot over it.
Awesome, what’s all in the pure attraction blend? We plant sorghum for our screening walls. You should look into it as well sorghum will stand up better throughout the winter.
Wisconsin Whitetail Oats brassicas and winter peas
what one did you like more winter greens or beets and greens.. did winter greens last year haven’t tied beets and greens
Wintergreens is better. Beets and greens has at least 25% sugar beet seed and it’s not worth it. I didn’t see any of the sugar beets really. You’re supposed to plant sugar beets in June not late July or August like a normal Brassica Planting. The beets and greens does have tillage radish though. I like adding tillage radish with the Wintergreens.
Love the videos man. We planted winter greens and beets and greens about 2 1/2 weeks ago I’m ready to go check them to see how they came up. I’d be happy if my plots look as good as yours!
Hopefully your look as good or better, winter greens and beets and greens are some of the best winter forage Brassica blends you can buy
Wisconsin Whitetail I agree these two mixes are my favorite of what’s out there right now. If I don’t use these I’m buying seed bulk and mixing myself.
Antler King’s Honey Hole is a similar product and one of the better late season forages out there. Honey Hole has Multiple Forage Rapes and Purple top turnips. It just doesn’t offer the multiple kale species, dankion radish and sugar beets like some of the whitetail institute products
Looks great! My only suggestion would be to spray and plant a 10 yard wide border around the plots with winter rye, winter wheat, and clover. And rotate the brassicas out every couple years and plant soybeans or something instead.
I was also wondering how those beets did? I’m considering that blend but have heard they don’t do as well because the brassicas out compete them. I’ve been told to plant them separately and a little earlier than the other greens.
I know I’m just now joining in, so a response would be appreciated but not expected. Thanks, new subscriber! God bless and good hunting!
This video if from a few years ago and I too have learned quite a it in food plotting since then. The sugar beets did not do well. I don’t even think they came up much. This plot has been corn soybeans and brassicas in the past 2 years.
First off. I really enjoy your attitude an dedication. Stupid question but im gonna ask. Sure you've done it. One time I packed in some winter greens etc. Didn't do worth a shit. Have you ever just tried timing it out when you know you'll get a couple days of a solid rain. That's always been my bread an butter. Haven't watched all your videos yet, but was just curious. Keep up the good work young sir.
I have always had better luck packing the seeds in. If you just broadcast on top of bare dirt you need a good rain to get germination. If the seeds are somewhat incorporated into the soil and packed in then I always seem to get better germination no matter how much rain you get. And it kind of holds the seeds in place if they’re in the soil.
What do you do when seeds have not germinated in the middle of the plot in full sun but have along the edges where you have a little shade
I guess wait for rain, I rarely ever just broadcast my brassicas right on top of the soil and leave them on top. I always try and get them slightly under the ground by either cultipacking or lightly discing them under so I get better germination.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 I used my ATV Drag I’m wondering if the soil just dried out faster because it’s in full sun
Love the videos
Thanks
Hopefully a few bucks will drop there antlers in one of those plots next spring
Yeah that would be a really nice bonus.
Hope you guys have a great season. Do you hunt over your food plots or place your stands on transition routes to and from the food plots? I dont hunt directly over my food plots down here in West Kentucky.
We hunt and have stands over our clover and kill plots. But we might hunt over our Soybean plot, and wintergreen plots during late bow season if we haven’t got one by that time.
Great video. Thanks.
Hey man. Nice job.
Question, what setting do u have your spreader on for the winter greens and clover.
When I did mine, it didn't seem to toss enough.
My seed spreader isn’t a very fancy one. I kinda just free hand it, I don’t use a setting. It’s hard to overseed clover but you can definitely over seed Brassica species.
Would love to see an aerial map of where your plots are on your property, I have a property I want to put a late season food plot down, but I'm trying to find a good spot.. somewhere I can enter and exit and not spook them
In the food plot update video coming soon we will be using the drone to get an arial view of the plots. You might be able to get an idea then! We don’t own a lot of the deer bedding and cover our 2 neighbors do. So a lot of our food plots are right on the edge of the cover and are fairly easily accessible without spooking deer.
Did you lime and fertilizer???
No. We don’t fertile any of our plots. And this year we only limed the ones in the loamy peat ground because the ph is to low there.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 curious, what was your PH range? I am starting a couple of 1/2 acre plots on my property in SC and soil is SUPER acidic. Will definitely take a couple of years to reach its potential.
You can always spray your field with Clethodim for the grasses and then broadcast winter wheat or winter rye
Thanks for the advice, that definitely would work but I don’t think we have the time for that right now I wish we did though.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 you still have a solid 3 to plant winter rye
That Clethodim works but its damn expensive
If I were you I would get a bag of winter wheat and broadcast over the top of the brassicas to fill in all the empty spots, The deer love it and will eat that all winter along with the turnips. About 100 lbs an acre.
Thanks for the advice, I will have to maybe try that next year if there are any bare spots in our Brassica fields, the bare spots filled up with weeds pretty quick.
I would think about doing it anyways, at the first frost the weeds will die off and the winter wheat will take over and grow anytime the temp is above freezing during the winter. I do this in soybean fields and after the leaves brown the deer eat the wheat and pods. The wheat will grow fast in the spring to feed the deer and the Turkey's love it to.