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Post by Foggy on Dec 7, 2020 21:32:08 GMT -6
Who was the guy over on the old site....that was from Wisconsin. He planted lots of pumpkins and swore by them. I did some pumpkins on a small scale and the deer ate the daylights out of em. They kicked em open and feasted on them......sometimes coming back to the same pumpkin for a few days. They are too much work to weed for me......I got more important stuff to do. FORE!
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 7, 2020 21:32:35 GMT -6
Wish I had a pic of a deer walking around with a pumpkin on its head.
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 7, 2020 21:35:11 GMT -6
Who was the guy over on the old site....that was from Wisconsin. He planted lots of pumpkins and swore by them. I did some pumpkins on a small scale and the deer ate the daylights out of em. They kicked em open and feasted on them......sometimes coming back to the same pumpkin for a few days. They are too much work to weed for me......I got more important stuff to do. FORE! Was it that freak No-Fo? Cheapest darn things I ever planted that deer loved, but weeding in late july SUCKED ASSSSSSS. never again. I just dried seeds from pumpkins that we carved and used them to plant the next years crop. Free Free Free. Never fertilized. Need roundup ready punkins. |
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Post by kooch on Dec 7, 2020 21:39:42 GMT -6
How much weeding is involved? I'm not sure I'm down with that. If I wait until June, and spray with a ridiculous rate of gly, on the day, or even maybe a day or two AFTER I put seeds in the ground, is there a chance I can get away without hand weeding? I have enough to do up there without crawling around on my hands and knees picking weeds.
I sprayed one area this year with a backpack sprayer, a trail into a spot. I overdid it. But it was mostly weed-free even this fall. I just used a hot mix of gly.
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 7, 2020 21:45:54 GMT -6
Great question kooch.
Labels on gly say not to plant for 14 days after spraying or something like that. But people do the seed into shit, cultipack the shit, then spray gly..... Great question.
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Post by kooch on Dec 7, 2020 21:49:50 GMT -6
Ben already answered this on the last page.
Plant and then spray same day works for him.
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Post by benmnwi on Dec 7, 2020 22:18:20 GMT -6
I've planted decent sized pumpkin plots the last 2 years. I had to weed this year for some reason, but the prior year the pumpkins grew so fast they overwhelmed the weeds.
When I lived in town I would plant pumpkins in my backyard. they would spread into my mowed yard and take over. I think if you mowed near your pumpkins that might be all the help they need once established.
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 7, 2020 22:27:18 GMT -6
I tried mowing weeds around my mounds.... Didnt help me much at all.
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Post by Reagan on Dec 7, 2020 22:31:35 GMT -6
    I mowed an area short. It had never been planted before. I dug about 15 little spots where I dropped seeds in. Maybe a shovel full of dirt had been moved. We were pretty dry so I dumped some buckets of water on the seed. I mulched with lawn clippings. When I came back a week or two later they’d started to grow. I took several 5 gallon buckets to cover the plants and sprayed. No weeding no muss no fuss. I threw some handfuls of 12-12-12 when I watered a few times. If I would have planted a month or two earlier they would have had better rain and more time to grow. I think I counted about 36 ripe pumpkins and several more green. There has been a little activity but most are laying untouched as of thanksgiving. Maybe my deer need to learn about them. I will plant more next year because the kids liked them. My daughter wants to grow a certain kind so she can make real pumpkin pie with one. Maybe by then the deer will be into them more. |
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 7, 2020 22:36:57 GMT -6
I wondered about the 5 gallon bucket spray method, but never tried it.
for pumpkins we wanted to pick, I pissed on them(drink lots of beer to cover your 2 favorite punkins) and/or sprayed them with Irish Spring soap water. We use the Irish Spring on our Hostas at home. works pretty good. Not perfect, but works good.
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Post by Sandbur on Dec 8, 2020 3:43:13 GMT -6
My deer are picky and I am surrounded by heavy ag. Alfalfa, corn, soybeans, sweet corn on a large scale, and sometimes edible beans. Not too mention apples.
Some bean fields get rye cover crops.
Pumpkins should work for many of you.
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 8, 2020 6:57:31 GMT -6
Deer took a couple of years to decide they liked them (pumpkins) here. Once they liked them it became hard to keep them. I would grow a truckload worth of them and they would be gone in a week. Lot of work for such a short time of feeding. I like growing them, but took a break this year as they needed sprayed about once a week for squash bugs.
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Post by badgerfowl on Dec 8, 2020 9:55:32 GMT -6
You can hunt over anything you plant as long as it is in it's natural state and not moved (at least this is what I've been told). You could certainly harvest some pumpkins for halloween and leave the rest for the deer since that's what we do and the wardens are in my neighborhood frequently. you just couldn't throw your used carved pumpkins right under a stand when you are done with them. My kids picked a lot of pumpkins to put in the front yard this year. After halloween I just threw them inside my apple tree cages where deer couldn't get to them just to be 100% sure. I will probably do the same with apple pressings in the future. My neighbor was caught baiting last year and any warden walking on his land could clearly see my pumpkin patch. My pumpkin patch wasn't a problem at all, but my neighbor's pile of pumpkins in front of a stand was apparently viewed differently. My sister/nephew used about a dozen of the pumpkins we grew in the garden for Halloween then we just put them back in the garden when it was over. They were gone in a week. We don't hunt over the garden. Next year I'll be planting them in the food plot and just leaving them. Hope they grow as well down there as the garden. |
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Post by badgerfowl on Dec 8, 2020 10:00:58 GMT -6
My CO said that it is illegal to hunt over corn that has been knocked down or mowed. I planted soybeans, corn, brassicas and pumpkins this year and right now only brassicas and soybeans remain. Each area is a little different though, so it might take some trial and error to figure out what works best on your land. The problem is that the regs are left open to CO "interpretation". That shouldn't be the case. I've considered planting pumpkins before, but have been concerned about how easily they can be seen. If I planted some pumpkins in a foodplot, harvested a few for Halloween and left the rest for the deer to eat...that should be considered a "normal agricultural practice" in my mind. I imagine some COs would agree with me and some wouldn't. In the future, I plan to start making apple cider. If I take the pressings and dispose of them somewhere on my property, is that a normal agricultural practice? It would seem that way to me. Will a CO see it that way? I plan to get something in writing from the local CO before disposing of future pressings. We got rid of plenty of "yard waste" over the years when my parents had their old place with producing apple trees. Unless someone walked up on it, is it really there? |
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Post by smsmith on Dec 8, 2020 10:38:03 GMT -6
The problem is that the regs are left open to CO "interpretation". That shouldn't be the case. I've considered planting pumpkins before, but have been concerned about how easily they can be seen. If I planted some pumpkins in a foodplot, harvested a few for Halloween and left the rest for the deer to eat...that should be considered a "normal agricultural practice" in my mind. I imagine some COs would agree with me and some wouldn't. In the future, I plan to start making apple cider. If I take the pressings and dispose of them somewhere on my property, is that a normal agricultural practice? It would seem that way to me. Will a CO see it that way? I plan to get something in writing from the local CO before disposing of future pressings. We got rid of plenty of "yard waste" over the years when my parents had their old place with producing apple trees. Unless someone walked up on it, is it really there? I don't disagree with you. I do know the local CO spends a fair amount of time in this general area lately. I see him rolling through at least weekly. My guess is that is due to my SW neighbors, but am not 100% sure. That said, I have no interest in being ticketed for something. I'll talk to the guy in advance and see what he says. If I have to fence the stuff off somehow, I will do so. |
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