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Summer regenerative planting issue.
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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.
MarkDarvin
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You should look at your calcium to magnesium ratio on your soil test. When you're talking two tons of lime per acre, you can very easily get your nutrients out of whack. Without any more information, I'd guess you need magnesium, and some calcium. If you want to go at it without checking, do a ton of calcitic lime and a ton of dolomitic lime.
Far as plantings, plan for heat and no rain. That means mung beans, sunhemp, sorghum-sudan grass. That should be a self feeding plot far as nutrients go. You'll want to plan for abundant biomass in case you're successful, so have a plan to deal with it, but that's what you need to make sand work. Find a way to get your fall seed broadcast into it, and then roll it all flat. Do not mow, do not till, just find a way to flatten it. It'll make the perfect carpet to germinate your fall seeds.
If you don't have a great tool to deal with big sunnhemp, you may want to leave that out, and just do mung beans, sorghum sudan, white sweet clover, and japanese millet. But be thinking big biomass to cover your sand. Keep the sun off your sand and it'll do immensely better.
Far as plantings, plan for heat and no rain. That means mung beans, sunhemp, sorghum-sudan grass. That should be a self feeding plot far as nutrients go. You'll want to plan for abundant biomass in case you're successful, so have a plan to deal with it, but that's what you need to make sand work. Find a way to get your fall seed broadcast into it, and then roll it all flat. Do not mow, do not till, just find a way to flatten it. It'll make the perfect carpet to germinate your fall seeds.
If you don't have a great tool to deal with big sunnhemp, you may want to leave that out, and just do mung beans, sorghum sudan, white sweet clover, and japanese millet. But be thinking big biomass to cover your sand. Keep the sun off your sand and it'll do immensely better.
