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I got a plot put in the first week of October but all this rain in North Texad has flooded the field. When the water goes away, what is the latest I could plant and what should I plant? What I used prior was BWI's Fall mix.
 
I don't know anything about your climate, but here in Virginia, far north of you I presume, we haven't started planting wheat or cover crops like rye, yet. So, I assume there's time for what you want to do, but the amount of growth you may get will be somewhat limited in the amount of growth. I'd go for it until early November.
 
I'm further south than you, but I've used Rye in mid-December to fill in bare spots and had good germination - I literally just broadcast it on the ground and it grew. I always save some of my Rye seed when I plant now just for that reason. Although I don't have any experience with planting Wheat late, I have read about farmers who probably are a little north of you planting as late as Thanksgiving.
 
I am in east texas

Our winters are mild

I would vote to "go ahead"

Elbon rye is idiot proof in the Post Oak Savannah ecoregion of Texas

bill
 
My next door row crop neighbor aerial seeds wheat around Thanskgiving for commercial production. His field usually has deer on it by mid December. I am hoping to get my last wheat in the ground early next week if we can get five days of no rain and dry this mess up. SW Arkansas
 
I don't know anything about your climate, but here in Virginia, far north of you I presume, we haven't started planting wheat or cover crops like rye, yet. So, I assume there's time for what you want to do, but the amount of growth you may get will be somewhat limited in the amount of growth. I'd go for it until early November.
What about seeding ladino clover? Too late for that in VA?
 
What about seeding ladino clover? Too late for that in VA?

Depends on your level of ability to tolerate risk! I guess I'd rather gamble on it now rather than in the spring. Here's the thing. IF we have enough decent weather, that is to say, soils stay fairly warm (40s - 50s) and we get enough rain (who needs more rain, you could ask), the clover might germinate in maybe three weeks. Now it's Thanksgiving. The chances of a hard, hard freeze are growing. If the ground freezes solid to a depth of an inch for as little as a day or two, your clover is dead. A little clover root in a block of frozen soil will die of thirst! Does that happen to us here in central Virginia? It might. it might not. Maybe this is the year we get lucky.
 
I know you are way south, but for comparisons sake Pa zone 6 is way too late to plant anything. If you really want growth, Labor day is the latest to plant anything except maybe rye.
 
We just started planting wheat. On the coastal Plain and from Richmond south it will continue until the beginning of December - if the weather cooperates.
 
If you want a green field to hunt on get some annual rye, it will be up quick.
I don't know whats in the fall mix you mentioned but my guess is it probably got plenty of rye mixed with legumes and a clover or brasicas. That would be a good over all mix, even for after the season. It depends on what your trying to accomplish. Something is better than nothing. You may have noticed most of the rye and wheat have had to be replanted because it all got washed in the rain. and that was drilled.
 
Well I went ahead and seeded some clover yesterday but fortunately the rye I put down Oct 17 is starting to pop up so the plot is not a total loss. Hopefully ground temps stay warm long enough to get some fall growth but if not I'm going to take the leftover seed and frost seed in the spring.
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Well, there's always next year. Food plot area is under water that won't be going down anytime soon. We had historical rain in Sept and Oct, plus November has been a wet month.
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Depends on your level of ability to tolerate risk! I guess I'd rather gamble on it now rather than in the spring. Here's the thing. IF we have enough decent weather, that is to say, soils stay fairly warm (40s - 50s) and we get enough rain (who needs more rain, you could ask), the clover might germinate in maybe three weeks. Now it's Thanksgiving. The chances of a hard, hard freeze are growing. If the ground freezes solid to a depth of an inch for as little as a day or two, your clover is dead. A little clover root in a block of frozen soil will die of thirst! Does that happen to us here in central Virginia? It might. it might not. Maybe this is the year we get lucky.
 
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