Ugliest Foodplot Photo Contest

[dogghr]

Always good to see the amazing plots some have this year. But a huge swath of the country has had some rough weather. At the farm today for first time in 3 wks and was a bit shocked.
I’ve been 66 days w/o drop of rain. Never seen my Farm so dead. I’m sure if you dropped a match my fallow fields would incinerate.
So to start this here is my T&M brassica plot planted early Aug. Got couple showers that wk then nothing. In all fairness what you see mostly is dead grasses and the deer have already browsed what growth occurred.

As you can see despite drought still got bulbs but deer have already yanked them from ground. Brassica is one tough plant. Will overseed this with WW/WR/RC mix soon.

Any others with ugly??


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[catscratch]

Heck ya I've got ugly plots! Pics will have to wait until daytime.

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[OkieKubota]

I am in on this one! Home 10, plot planted 8/26/17, next set of pics taken 9/29/17.

Next couple pics taken a couple days ago after we got the one and only 1.5" rain a few days back.

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[catscratch]

Pretty:

Pretty:

Ugly:

But the ugly has: millet, milo, brassica's, clover, pumpkins, and sunflowers in it... as well as Johnson grass, foxtail, crabgrass, and locust trees. The deer still like the plot and it survived a dry/hot summer. I can put up with some weedy grasses for plot survival and they aren't exactly bad for soil anyway. Still ugly though.

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[livinadream]

I'll play.

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[Stickbow Felty]

I don't have any food plots but I love the bow.

 

[THE LLC]

Been there too many times. This year is much better but last year NOTHING grew until it rained---in early December. 86 days without a drop. I didn't even bother to hunt until mid-December.

 

[Drycreek]

Grandpa Ray Outdoors Mass Builder. It had enough moisture in it to half germinate and rain was predicted. Didn't get enough to wipe my tracks out !

 

[Triple C]

Mercy me! dogghr...ain't nothing worse than drought. Last yea was terrible for us. This year...right the opposite. Finished the last of plantings yesterday and rain started about the time we finished. It's raining again today. Plots planted pre and post Irma are doing amazingly well. Here's a few pics of what rain does...No ugly plots this year.

 

[Jeff H]

Always good to see the amazing plots some have this year. But a huge swath of the country has had some rough weather. At the farm today for first time in 3 wks and was a bit shocked.
I’ve been 66 days w/o drop of rain. Never seen my Farm so dead. I’m sure if you dropped a match my fallow fields would incinerate.
So to start this here is my T&M brassica plot planted early Aug. Got couple showers that wk then nothing. In all fairness what you see mostly is dead grasses and the deer have already browsed what growth occurred.

As you can see despite drought still got bulbs but deer have already yanked them from ground. Brassica is one tough plant. Will overseed this with WW/WR/RC mix soon.

Any others with ugly??


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Ugly plot, but a beautiful bow !
I've never been able to shoot a traditional but I love the look of them. Maybe one day!

 

[dogghr]

Some pretty ugly plots their guys. Misery does love company. At least most of us won't be accused of too many plants growing together. I tried for the second year to double size of my alfalfa plot but with two drought years I think God is telling me to rethink my plants. I thot there would be one flooded plot included here??? Drought not the only culprit. You have your fires, your winds, your poor seeds or soils, etc.

 

[DocHolladay]

I thought I was going to get to post an ugly plot picture. We ended up getting rain, Saturday evening and 75% of the day Sunday. It had been 2 weeks since my seed had hit the ground. We have had rain almost every week, at least once, since May/early June and as soon as my seeds touch the ground, the rain goes away. I will not get the bulbs I wanted off the turnips, but everything else should come on strong and the deer will get to utilize the leaves of the brassicas until they die from cold temps.

 

[Charlieyca]

2 of last years plots.
Late season attempt to overseed into buckwheat. Broadcast wheat and dragged in. Poor soil contact, good moisture, spotty germination.

Same process different field. Same result plus some weeds that didnt get killed before planting.

Tall plants are wheat, everything else is weeds. Back half is brassicas that despite being too thick, did great.

 

[Native Hunter]

dogghr, I don't have you an ugly food plot, but I will make an entry in this contest with our old home orchard. After all, and orchard is a food plot - it feeds deer. We had some 60+ year old apple trees here that were still bearing like champs. The highway dept. had different ideas on land use.......

I can't let you get ahead of me in a contest old buddy.....

 

[Familytradition]

dogghr, I don't have you an ugly food plot, but I will make an entry in this contest with our old home orchard. After all, and orchard is a food plot - it feeds deer. We had some 60+ year old apple trees here that were still bearing like champs. The highway dept. had different ideas on land use.......

I can't let you get ahead of me in a contest old buddy.....

That has to a tough one to take.


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[Native Hunter]

That has to a tough one to take.


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Yes, it was. But I would have more luck fighting the Marines than the government, so we just cooperated as best we could. It got the houses of the three closest neighbors and cut off a small pie of my yard - but our house survived. My closest neighbor moved over 150 yards and built a new house. I am now at the end of a dead end road. The old road past me now comes in from a different place off the new road.

The good news is that via grafting the last 2 years we have saved the best old apple varieties that we had. They were just great old local varieties not known outside the community, but really good apples. There was one that I wanted to save but couldn't, because they moved a house out and cut it down before I could do anything. But, the ones I wanted to save the most are grafted and growing.

 

[Jason Broom]

I was trying to find it, but haven't been able to do so. I have a picture of dad driving an old 8N tractor through a food plot with Russian thistle that made me glad we put a good metal screen in front of the radiator.

Aside from that, we have one property that is very sandy. Below are pictures of the exact same plot, two years apart.

Note the contrast of the ag field behind this small plot. The first year, we had dirt and dust while the center-pivot field was green and lush. The next year, with a picture taken later into the fall, our plots were the only green thing for miles around. I have never been so appreciative of rain as I am since I started planting food plots.

 

[Mo-Ape]

My buddy has a better grain plot in his Ford than I do...stinking drought

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