The Brushpile

[Brushpile]

Rain is in the forecast! I need to plant plots fast; any suggestions?

 

[Native Hunter]

Rain is in the forecast! I need to plant plots fast; any suggestions?

If your deer like brassicas, I have found them to be very tolerant of drought once they germinate and get a few days under their belt. Some grains mixed in would be nice too. That would make a good annual plot.

Since you suffer from drought so much, I would consider trying to get a chicory and red clover plot established. Nothing will take the heat and dry weather better, and they also feed well into the hunting season in the fall. Also, if you get some improved varieties, you could get 3 or 4 years out of the plot. The chicory will even last much longer than that.

 

[Brushpile]

I tried chicory, and it didn't show up, but neither did sunflower, radish, clover, wheat and alfalfa. Thanks Native Hunter, I'll try clover and brassicas. I'm looking at 50-60 percent chances for the next 10 days.

 

[Brushpile]

Restored and planted two remote food plots today. Both plots were weed whacked, sprayed with a back pack sprayer, seed was hand broadcast. Trails to the plots were cut and sprayed to create deer highways. One plot had surviving alfalfa here and there, so it was planted with Red Clover and Black Sunflower. Deer eat young sunflower and alfalfa can't be reseeded.

The other plot was seeded with Red Clover, Alfalfa and Turnips.

This manmade trail will bring deer passed my stand, even if the plot does not grow! The trail is cut, sprayed, and 300 yards long.

 

[Brushpile]

This stand produces year after year!


The trail exits or enters the plot. From the direction of travel sequence, this would be the exit, and it ends at the river.

A third trail cuts through the draw.

 

[Brushpile]

My neighbor assisted me with his DR Power Mower. This is the neighbor's barn, made entirely without nails until the tin roof was added.

 

[Brushpile]

Glorious rain came today and more is in the forecast. It will be interesting to see usage as the plots grow and highways form from the mowed and sprayed trails.

 

[Brushpile]

Rain again today, the plots will germinate. Now for rain every week or two!

 

[Brushpile]

Just missed 3 80% chances of rain. Plots have germinated, but need rain to survive.

 

[Weasel]

Happy to hear the rains are returning. Good luck with your fall plots

 

[Brushpile]

Rain at last! Pics over the weekend.

 

[cutman]

Looks like you might get a ton of rain from remnants of Hurricane Gordon.

 

[Brushpile]

Looks like you might get a ton of rain from remnants of Hurricane Gordon.

Thanks, I need a ton of rain. The rivers are trickles, nothing will produce, not one pear or apple off over 100 trees, and plots won't grow, but I have germination, so this is great news for food plots.

 

[Brushpile]

Late snow followed by drought ruined soft mast as well as mast production, but there are still bight spots!
DCO

 

[Brushpile]

This Sequin/Chinese Chinkapin is an outstanding wildlife plant, offering cover, browse and loads of small chestnuts.

The nuts.

 

[Brushpile]

Due to both a later snow and drought, all the pear trees are barren.

 

[Brushpile]

This Concordia Oak is old enough to be loaded with acorns, but a bad Spring killed most of them.

Concordia Oak acorns.

 

[Brushpile]

This Loblolly x Pitch Pine was killed to allow the Bur Oak to grow.

 

[Brushpile]

Chestnuts are producing lots of burs, but nuts won't form without rain.

 

[Brushpile]

This chestnut is about 25 feet tall.