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Post by dougell on Mar 28, 2016 11:35:21 GMT -5
I have a strip of pines below my barn that's about 50 yards wide.Two weeks ago,the power company had the powerline that runs through it brush hogged.Jr wanted to try his hand at making a foodplot so I hooked a landscape rake up to the Kabota over the weekend and scraped all the junk off.After we got that done,I had him run a chain harrow over it and had him spread about 350lbs of lime and 10-20-10.I'll spay it as soon as the weeds pop up and plan on seeding it with clover and maybe some sunflowes for asthetics.There's no way to hunt over it but it will look better than the junk that was there and it will make a nice path to take the horses to the lower property.Kind of a cool project so the kid can gain an understanding of how things grow.
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Post by Dutch on Mar 28, 2016 11:37:00 GMT -5
If you want him to learn how things grow, have him plant a garden. LOL
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Post by fleroo on Mar 28, 2016 11:49:14 GMT -5
350 lbs. of lime ? That should only be about 9,650 lbs. shy ?  |
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Post by dougell on Mar 28, 2016 11:58:07 GMT -5
If you want him to learn how things grow, have him plant a garden. LOL Well,if it doesn't grow,he'll learn what not to do.That's just as valuable lol. |
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Post by dougell on Mar 28, 2016 12:01:41 GMT -5
350 lbs. of lime ? That should only be about 9,650 lbs. shy ? Nah,it's 30 ft by probably 120 feet long.That should be plenty.One pass covered just about the entire thing and he made about 20 passes.I bought a pallet of pelletized lime Saturday.I put around 1000lbs on the horse pastures and saved 7 bags for his project. |
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Post by fleroo on Mar 28, 2016 12:25:39 GMT -5
You reminded me though, I gotsta hot lime my garden.
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Post by cspot on Mar 28, 2016 17:13:28 GMT -5
I give you 2 years and you will have a blind sitting on that food plot. smileys-whistling-823718
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Post by dougell on Mar 29, 2016 7:43:00 GMT -5
I give you 2 years and you will have a blind sitting on that food plot. smileys-whistling-823718 Lol.Not a chance. |
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Post by dougell on Mar 29, 2016 8:35:50 GMT -5
Cspot,I'm a very simple guy and live my life by a very simple set of rules.I'll never drive a mini van.I'll never ride a horse with an English saddle,I'll never vote for a liberal and I'll never sit in a ground blind.Other than that,I'm pretty open-minded.
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Post by dougell on May 16, 2016 9:00:37 GMT -5
Well,I put two foodplots in and they're starting to take off like crazy.I decided to go with buck wheat as a weed suppressor and soil conditioner.I'll mow them down in august,disk them up and plant with some clover and winter rye.We checked them last weekend and nothing was popping up.I was concerned with the one because it was literally covered in turkey crap so I assumed they picked all my seeds out.This past weekend it started coming up pretty thick and lush so it should be OK.A few weeds popped up but not even close to as bad as the other areas that I didn't spray.
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Post by Dutch on May 16, 2016 13:18:52 GMT -5
Many years ago I planted 2 small plots with buckwheat. Maybe 500 yds apart.
The one, the deer ate to the ground, while inside the exclusion cage, it was three ft high.
The other plot was untouched. I knocked it down with a disc, and then had to gather it up and throw it off the plot.
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Post by dougell on May 16, 2016 15:44:07 GMT -5
I only planted it so it would out compete the weeds and buy me some time til later in the summer.I never thought deer paid much attention to it but my neighbor planted some last summer and the deer were all over it.
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Post by Dutch on May 16, 2016 16:24:55 GMT -5
Yes, it can suppress weeds, but only if the deer lay off it.
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Post by dougell on Jun 20, 2016 13:36:09 GMT -5
Well,both plots of buck wheat are way above knee level and they're starting to flower.It looks like they did their job at keeping the weeds at bay.Yesterday morning I was drinking my coffee on the porch and two deer came out of the one and fed along the lower edge of my field.Later in the day I went down to check out the browse pressure.To my surprise they were pounding it pretty good.I had every intention of checking out the second one but never got around to it.I was talking to my one neighbor though and when he told me that a he saw a bunch in it when he was planting corn.
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Post by Dutch on Jun 20, 2016 19:23:25 GMT -5
When that goes to seed, the turkeys will love you for planting it
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Post by dougell on Jun 21, 2016 7:29:23 GMT -5
They loved it two days after I planted it.I'm surprised any sprouted at all.
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Post by Dutch on Jun 21, 2016 11:50:33 GMT -5
Buddy of mine had a buckwheat plot out in Ohio years ago. He seeded clover into the BW, in early June I think. We were out in August that was one of the sweetest clover plots I ever saw.
The deer kept the BW cropped off. The BW shaded and kept the clover moist.
We mowed the remaining BW off to release the clover for the fall.
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