Seed viability

[Ed Brodt]

Central Kentucky. Planted 4 food plots with radishes and turnips on August 30. Previous rain was August 12. Ground was hard and crusty. Tilled, cultipacked, broadcasted seed, cultipacked again. Did not get rain until about September 28. So about six weeks with no rain and about 4 weeks with no rain after planting. I was worried that these plots would be a complete failure. I inspected the plots on October 19th and was pleasantly surprised to see that not only had we had germination but the plots were looking really good. Nice complete coverage with healthy looking plants. Probably don't have enough days left to develop big radishes and turnips but it certainly was not a failure.

 

[catscratch]

Congrats!

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[Lewi B]

Always makes one feel good to see seeds popping out of the ground.

Glad yours are up and going.

 

[j-bird]

hard seed like you planted can do fine as long as the birds don't eat it OR they germinate and then don't get enough rain to sustain life. Late summer planting is always a hit or miss sort of thing as far as rainfall is concerned in the mid-west. Glad to hear you had some decent results..... You will have to shoot a deer off one of those plots and get us a picture.

 

[Ed Brodt]

hard seed like you planted can do fine as long as the birds don't eat it OR they germinate and then don't get enough rain to sustain life. Late summer planting is always a hit or miss sort of thing as far as rainfall is concerned in the mid-west. Glad to hear you had some decent results..... You will have to shoot a deer off one of those plots and get us a picture.

Our group shot three does in one of these plots last weekend during our early muzzleloader season. No pics. Got the freezer meat. Now we can focus on antlers.