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Post by Dutch on Sept 19, 2016 19:02:32 GMT -5
Here is a pic taken Sunday of a dirty plot I did in brassica. Sprayed with Gly, then simply broadcast brassica. Probably the worst year to try this.  |
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Post by longbeard2372 on Sept 19, 2016 20:05:27 GMT -5
Looks great... Did you just spray and seed or did you lime and fertilize also?
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Post by Dutch on Sept 19, 2016 20:08:47 GMT -5
Limed it a few years back, but did fertilize at seeding.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 19, 2016 20:09:35 GMT -5
This plot had been neglected for a while, so, figured this was a first step in getting some weed control.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Sept 20, 2016 4:09:32 GMT -5
Is that the seed from Rorhers seed and what is your plans for next year for this plot?
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Post by Dutch on Sept 20, 2016 5:07:42 GMT -5
That was part Rohrers, groundhog radishes, and some 12 year old dwarf essex rape.
I used the DER on another plo, and it didn't come up well, so, I guess that seed was just to old. LOL Had bought a 50 lb bag of it years ago, and never used all of it up. This is my year to use up some old seed.
That mix from Rohrers has done very well for me for the past 10 years. I get mine from the Agway in Manheim.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Sept 20, 2016 5:43:02 GMT -5
Yeah the stuff we got from Rohrers was great. It out grew and germinated faster then the batch we got from welter seed and honey. We actually seeded it 2 weeks after and along side the welter seed and it just shot out of the ground. Now we did notice that the deer are hitting the welter stuff a lot harder then the Rorhers seed at this point. Maybe because its more mature or diff taste or the location to cover but they are definitely nailing the welter seed stock hard at this point. And both are the same size plants at this time.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 20, 2016 6:15:36 GMT -5
Deer hit different plants and plots differently.
The plot above was planted in buckwheat one year, it grew 3 ft tall. Another plot, 400 yds away, never got more than 5 inches tall. I had to disc the one plot down, then gather the stuff and throw it off.
If you look closely at what deer are eating in that Rohrer mix, you will see some stuff, the same plants, getting browsed early on, then later, they hammer the rest.
Dwarf Essex rape is a highly edible plant and they key on that, well before hunting season. It is a smoothe leaf, on both sides. Some of the plants in the Rohrer mix have very hairy undersides and the deer leave them for last.
Trust me, from November 1st on, they will hammer that mix.
Welter Seed uses the same seed source as Rohrer's, Ampac, but may use different varieties.
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Post by Dutch on Oct 6, 2016 14:16:28 GMT -5
Pic taken Sunday. Not much growth in the last two weeks, it seems, but, from walking around it, the deer are hitting the Groundhog radishes pretty hard, so, they have taken some of it's height away.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Oct 6, 2016 17:52:39 GMT -5
yeah our's are getting hammered. Inside our browse enclosurws everything is 12" taller then the outside. Getting a elextric fence for our beans next yr for sure.
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Post by Dutch on Oct 6, 2016 19:00:15 GMT -5
Shoot more does. Then all you end up with is bucks, like me. LOL
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Post by longbeard2372 on Oct 6, 2016 19:22:18 GMT -5
Shoot more does. Then all you end up with is bucks, like me. LOL Funny you say that... Broother and I were just talking about how many we need to take off our 36t acre lease this season. In 2 seasons we have taken 3 doe and 3 mistaken for doe button bucks. We have 5 3A tags so we are hoping for atleast 3 long face nannys off it. Pretty sure that will not be enough. |
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Post by Dutch on Oct 6, 2016 19:33:59 GMT -5
Last year, the first day of rifle season was the most shooting I heard in 10 years.
Funny tho, doe season was not in, but I suspect a number of hunters didn't care.
We border pretty heavily hunted state land, so, a doe goes off, it gets shot.
My brother met a hunter on the state land several years ago. It was Thursday the first week. The hunter was dragging a doe out. It was the FIRST deer he had seen all week, and it JUST had to die....
Sad.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Oct 6, 2016 19:59:45 GMT -5
Yeah believe it or not it was the same to the north. 5 yrs ago the wife and I hunted dark to dark and seen 2 deer in 2 days on my Grandfathers 138 acre farm. It was like that for 3 seasons thanks to rhe neighboring camps and clubs killing and filling every tag they had even tho we all knew it was to much. Fortunately everyone quickly grew tired of more hrs hunting then deer seen and they started herd production practices. Now we have a healthy herd in our area. We have a small doe problem but we like it that way with 4 current mentored hunters in our ranks and 4 more coming up over the next 5 yrs. Nothing like seeing deer to keep the young ones interested.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Oct 9, 2016 7:20:40 GMT -5
Got news from the north that the first slickhead of the yr was taken off our lease last evening. Four more to go!
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