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Summer regenerative planting issue.
- Thread starter Poor dirt-poor budget
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Poor dirt-poor budget
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Buckwheat grow in hot Louisiana climate?
1100LT20
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Definitely. It will not tolerate any kind of frost though. I’ve personally seen it in East Feliciana, St Helena and Livingston Parish food plots. Usually planted in April and it’ll be drying up by late July. Game birds like the seeds once it’s done.
Go play with Green Cover Seed's SmartMix tool. The best mixes have all of grasses, legumes, brassicas and broadleaf plants. There are species that do better in dry/drought conditions of the south. Cowpeas were mentioned. Check out things like forage collards and mustards. Mung beans, sunn hemp, lab lab, etc. If you look at their store, and the listing for each seed, they list things like heat and drought tolerance. Find something in your budget and toss it into their smart mix calculator to figure out the right ratios. For OM Building, it's kind of counterproductive, because the more residue you leave, the quick you build OM, but that likely means the deer eat less.
I tried some forage collards last year and was impressed with how well they did with little rain in PA. Make sure you're using an exclusion cage too. If you looked at the plot, it looked like nothing grew, but inside of the exclusion cage, they got to 18". Too bad the critters at them before they got that big.
I tried some forage collards last year and was impressed with how well they did with little rain in PA. Make sure you're using an exclusion cage too. If you looked at the plot, it looked like nothing grew, but inside of the exclusion cage, they got to 18". Too bad the critters at them before they got that big.
