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Post by cspot on Aug 9, 2016 18:43:11 GMT -5
Only putting in 1 fall food plot this year. About 1/4 acre and ended up planting a bag of Biologic Last Bite. From the bag. "Last Bite contains forage triticale, cold tolerant oats and soft winter wheat, a quick establishing annual clover, and two different maturity rate brassicas for an all season blend." It was at Tractor Supply when I stopped so I figured I would give it a try. Plan on putting up the electric fence later this week. Now I need some rain.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Aug 9, 2016 19:56:54 GMT -5
Good look. Seems everyone is in the same boat... In need of rain ! Looks like north and west of Harrisburg, Pa. has a real good chance the rest is of the week. I hope Ohio is included !!!
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Post by longbeard2372 on Aug 9, 2016 19:57:23 GMT -5
Good luck. Seems everyone is in the same boat... In need of rain ! Looks like north and west of Harrisburg, Pa. has a real good chance the rest is of the week. I hope Ohio is included !!!
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Post by Dutch on Aug 10, 2016 4:47:46 GMT -5
Are they your beans to the left of the dirt plot?
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Post by cspot on Aug 10, 2016 15:40:47 GMT -5
Are they your beans to the left of the dirt plot? Yep.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 10, 2016 16:32:11 GMT -5
They really did well!
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 10, 2016 16:45:19 GMT -5
Attachment DeletedI finally got mine planted last week. 3 fields (about 1.5 acres). Turnip, Radish, Swiss Chard, and Clover. Can't wait to see the results!
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 10, 2016 16:46:21 GMT -5
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Post by davet on Aug 10, 2016 16:56:00 GMT -5
I hope you guys get the much needed rain. All your work needs some help. Then when that BIG 11 point comes by......Oh...that was a spike.....never mind..... smileys-whistling-823718 Remember, you can't count 'em as 11 points 'cause you got 1 point on the left and 1 point on the right. Only I can do that. fighting0092
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Post by Dutch on Aug 10, 2016 17:11:52 GMT -5
Are they your beans to the left of the dirt plot? Yep. It doesn't look like yer letting the deer eat them! LOL
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Post by turkeykiller on Aug 10, 2016 17:19:04 GMT -5
The Black Cherry (wild cherry) trees on my little piece of Heaven are loaded this year. Turkeys love em.
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 10, 2016 17:43:27 GMT -5
It doesn't look like yer letting the deer eat them! LOL Is that the field you had fenced? It looks great!
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Post by cspot on Aug 10, 2016 18:29:18 GMT -5
It doesn't look like yer letting the deer eat them! LOL Is that the field you had fenced? It looks great! Yes I had it fenced. The deer are eating on it but the soybeans are putting on more than the deer are taking off. I am putting the fence on the fall food plot. I think giving the stuff a chance to get going without any browsing pressure helps a lot.
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Post by cspot on Aug 11, 2016 18:26:59 GMT -5
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Post by Dutch on Aug 11, 2016 18:39:45 GMT -5
Can I ask how much a fencing system for a plot that size might cost?
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Post by cspot on Aug 11, 2016 18:56:34 GMT -5
The solar fencer I got on sale at Tractor Supply for $119. The posts and the fence I bought off a lady on Craigslist who was selling her farm. I think I paid $140 and got enough fence and posts that I could probably do 1.5 acres like this. The intermediate posts are like $2 a piece and the corner posts are like $5 new. The rope and tape that I got from the lady is expensive, but nice to work with. If you get wire though it is much cheaper. If I was buying new then I would go the wire route. You can look at Tractor Supply website to get more firm pricing.
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 11, 2016 19:26:28 GMT -5
That's a nice set up you got there!
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Post by dennyf on Aug 11, 2016 19:34:24 GMT -5
Wow! That looks almost identical to "my" food plot up in the corner of the hay field at camp? Even the topography is similar and so is its relationship to the woods on one side (mine has a fence row on the other). Originally it was a tad larger than a quarter acre, now it's about 150' long on the side next to the woods.
I picked the spot, when my cousin's son insisted on putting one in. In the upper right hand corner of the field, it's out of sight from the twp. road along the bottom of the field. But they can see if from my cousin's front porch, was across the valley. Kid had clover in it this summer, usually digs up a corner for some brassica later in the fall.
There's a smaller plot in a clearing in the woods, about fifty yards uphill from the one in the hay field. That one had turnips, clover and something else in it last year. He gets more "good" out of them than I do, since he's there on a fairly regular basis in archery season. Lost track of how many "mini" plots he has scattered around the area and also in spots over in NY.
I have seen precisely one buck in the hay field plot, in the several years that it's been there: A big one-horned spike in rifle season two years ago. No biggie, lots of critters enjoy those plots. There was a sow and two cub bears in it one year, around mid October. No idea WTH they were rootin' around for that year?
Started mowing about a half acre farther up in the woods some years ago, to keep it free of goldenrod and weeds. That area is mostly clover now, all on its own. He wanted to dig part of that up and plant it, told him to let it be. Turkeys like feeding thru there in the summer and fall.
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Post by cspot on Aug 14, 2016 8:30:53 GMT -5
Well we got germination.
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 14, 2016 18:38:56 GMT -5
That looks good cspot. I've got some good germination in 1 week myself on my plots.
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Post by dennyf on Aug 16, 2016 20:23:58 GMT -5
Looks like the northern tier got some more rain this evening? We had a frog strangler here earlier, more on the way by the looks of the radar? Over an inch of rain in less than a half hour. All four gutter ends were running over, thought there was a clog, found only one minor one. Just rained that hard, that it ran out over the ends. According to the weather monkey yesterday, we're now about 3" ahead of rainfall for the year, locally.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 17, 2016 4:44:00 GMT -5
Down here we haven't really had any serious dry weather. Storms and rains have been pretty well timed. Been mowing regularly.
Upstate, what a difference.
The field of string beans beside our driveway at camp dropped it's leaves. Now, with recent rains, they are sprouting new leaves. They just might get a crop out of it yet.
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Post by cspot on Aug 23, 2016 17:00:00 GMT -5
Taken last night, so this is about 2 weeks worth of growth. I didn't get it spread very even, but it is what it is.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Aug 23, 2016 19:05:40 GMT -5
Looks pretty good I would say! Kill plot for sure 👍
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 26, 2016 17:09:22 GMT -5
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