Upstate Obsession
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Elkaddict
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Some folks doubt brassica palatabilty until the first frosts. That has not been our experience with the Rutabaga/Winfred mix. Even with early use, they’ll still be knee to thigh high by October. By next March, they’ll be finishing the last of the bulbs and will chew the stalks to the ground.
Bowhunter
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Your LC brassica plot looks 100 times better than both of the fields that I put in at the same time that you did. I must be doing something wrong. One field the brassicas are just barely popping up, and the other they are only about an inch tall.
Care to share your process and what you do for fertilizer on them?
Elkaddict
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Nothing unusual, I disc in fertilizer, cultipack, broadcast and cultipack again. Cultipacking before and after greatly speeds up germination. I've seen it take a month for broadcast seeds to do anything on unprepared ground (when I have attempted throw and mow, I plant a couple weeks early to count for the slower germination). I don't think the fertilizer is impacting germination, just subsequent growth. I have experienced first hand that really low PH greatly slows down germination.
farmhunter
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brassicas look great - next year I'll try rutabagas!!
Elkaddict
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Our plots exploded with all the rain. We’ve got corn that is 9’+. Literally 30” of growth the last couple weeks. I checked a few cams before the rains started and corn is not the only thing growing. I passed this buck a dozen or more times last year. I figure he’ll add 3” more growth. He’s a decent buck for this country.
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farmhunter
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same here corn as tall as I've ever had and beans like nothing is even eating them -
Your bucks are similar to ours - we aren't seeing anything yet over 100" - maybe you've got a few closer -
Your bucks are similar to ours - we aren't seeing anything yet over 100" - maybe you've got a few closer -
farmhunter
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maybe too wet your way - we missed the real big rains here. Your brassica do look great!
Chainsaw
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Thank you so much Tom for showing me your deer hunting property or more correctly your deer Paradise and Deer Hunting Property. It is remarkable what you have accomplished in shaping your mountain top property into a Shangri-La for the deer. The deer's every need is met in outstanding fashion and your hunting setups are something else as well. Your thread pictures as beautiful and exciting as they are just begin tell the story. Your property's in the woods regrowth far exceeds any I have seen anywhere and those hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of natural grown oak seedlings and oak trees are just well, surreal. The size, shape and locations of your food plots combined with your "built" sanctuary areas are pure poetry as they just flow together so just right. I learned a lot on my visit to your place and really appreciate your taking the time to show it all to me.
Elkaddict
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Dave, it was pleasure to have you. I learn something every time we get together. I really like seeing other habitat addicts’ properties. It’s like going to school! It would be great if we could set up group tours.
Let Dennis know I planted the last of his triticale today—used it as a cover crop for the alfalfa. Can’t wait to see how it produces. I’ll need to get another half dozen bags next year.
Let Dennis know I planted the last of his triticale today—used it as a cover crop for the alfalfa. Can’t wait to see how it produces. I’ll need to get another half dozen bags next year.
