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Post by Sandbur on Jul 21, 2022 5:55:14 GMT -6
I've been trying to figure out when to plant the neighbor's brassica plots. I was thinking about spraying them again early this week and then seed/cultipack on Thursday. Seems the rain chances for Thurs/Fri are disappearing. I'm not sure if the heavy dews we get this time of year will be enough to get brassicas to germinate. Go ahead and seed, or wait another week and see if rain chances improve? I have a blank spot in my corn plot and was thinking the same but I don’t know about carry over. This morning, I broadcasted some turnips and radishes in the blank spot in my corn plot. We will see what happens. The beans I raked in some areas have nearly no browsing on them. Even the skinny end of the outback corn plot is now head high with no browsing pressure. Other years, that skinny end of the corn plot was browsed below knee high. I see two reasons for the lack of browsing pressure. 1. My neighbor says his I sweet corn field is getting hit hard. 2. Great moisture for most of this growing season has provided lots of feed in the woods and swamps. There is about forty acres of soy beans cornering on my woods. I only see a few to no deer on that field, at present.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 21, 2022 7:59:04 GMT -6
Just got done spraying the acreish plot next door. Hope I didn't miss too much thanks to the friggin' wind. Right now, the forecast is looking like a chance of rain on Saturday. Think I'll get a brassica/clover mix put down tomorrow, cultipack it with the Ranger and hope for the best.
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Post by Foggy on Jul 21, 2022 11:55:43 GMT -6
Just got done spraying the acreish plot next door. Hope I didn't miss too much thanks to the friggin' wind. Right now, the forecast is looking like a chance of rain on Saturday. Think I'll get a brassica/clover mix put down tomorrow, cultipack it with the Ranger and hope for the best. I was just making a plan for next years seeds. Called a guy that said you (Stu) and Art had worked his apple trees. He's on a dairy farm located south of Buckman. Was referred by Art. Had a talk with him about buying Aroostook Rye after the first of the year.....and getting it freighted in to his place. (He's a dealer for Byron seeds.). He told me Art "had it made". Grin. Seems my choices for the Aroostook Rye are his seed operation, an elevator at Greenwald, MN.....or Albert Lea seeds. Not sure it's worth my effort to specify this brand over Elbon Rye.....but it does mature earlier and costs about the same. I sure wish we had a good co-op closer to my place.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 22, 2022 10:29:39 GMT -6
Well, we got the acreish plot seeded to a brassica/crimson/frosty berseem mix and cultipacked this morning. Now for a nice rain.
The plot we seeded about a week ago has a bunch of brassicas popping, so there's hope for that strip.
edit..just got in from mowing the big orchard and checking on my crick plot. That plot was seeded the same time as the neighbor's strip. Lots of little brassicas popping, but if we don't get a rain soon I think they'll just burn up.
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Post by Foggy on Jul 22, 2022 14:11:39 GMT -6
^ Straping on my new rain dance moccasins tommorow......good change of rain. Looks like chances continue for then next ten.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 29, 2022 6:35:23 GMT -6
My corn plot is tasseling. I am not sure if this is far behind normal.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 8, 2022 9:14:09 GMT -6
I have a blank spot in my corn plot and was thinking the same but I don’t know about carry over. This morning, I broadcasted some turnips and radishes in the blank spot in my corn plot. We will see what happens. The beans I raked in some areas have nearly no browsing on them. Even the skinny end of the outback corn plot is now head high with no browsing pressure. Other years, that skinny end of the corn plot was browsed below knee high. I see two reasons for the lack of browsing pressure. 1. My neighbor says his I sweet corn field is getting hit hard. 2. Great moisture for most of this growing season has provided lots of feed in the woods and swamps. There is about forty acres of soy beans cornering on my woods. I only see a few to no deer on that field, at present. Not a total failure nor a raging success. With higher deer numbers, will the deer start using the turnips?
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 8, 2022 9:16:31 GMT -6
This morning, I broadcasted some turnips and radishes in the blank spot in my corn plot. We will see what happens. The beans I raked in some areas have nearly no browsing on them. Even the skinny end of the outback corn plot is now head high with no browsing pressure. Other years, that skinny end of the corn plot was browsed below knee high. I see two reasons for the lack of browsing pressure. 1. My neighbor says his I sweet corn field is getting hit hard. 2. Great moisture for most of this growing season has provided lots of feed in the woods and swamps. There is about forty acres of soy beans cornering on my woods. I only see a few to no deer on that field, at present. Not a total failure nor a raging success. With higher deer numbers, will the deer start using the turnips? This is what I suspect my future foodplotting will be. I just don’t want to put all of the effort and time into it anymore. can I call the weeds out there ‘forbs?’
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Post by smsmith on Aug 8, 2022 9:22:51 GMT -6
Not a total failure nor a raging success. With higher deer numbers, will the deer start using the turnips? This is what I suspect my future foodplotting will be. I just don’t want to put all of the effort and time into it anymore. can I call the weeds out there ‘forbs?’Yep I hear you on foodplotting/time/effort. I'm starting to question all of it, especially as costs for everything keep going up.
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Post by leexrayshady on Aug 8, 2022 10:33:52 GMT -6
To late for brassicas now? I swear I miss every rain that comes through, busy doing something else
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Post by benmnwi on Aug 8, 2022 11:08:18 GMT -6
Those brassicas look good - you definitely added some bonus late season calories for the deer. It seems like you have a lot of deer now, so I bet they will be eaten this winter.
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Post by benmnwi on Aug 8, 2022 11:10:13 GMT -6
To late for brassicas now? I swear I miss every rain that comes through, busy doing something else It's not too late yet - spread some seed and hope for the best. I broadcasted some brassicas last week in a few dead spots in a brassica field. The brassicas probably won't end up as large as those planted earlier, but it is better than nothing.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 8, 2022 17:24:34 GMT -6
Got one plot done last Thursday. I forget the size of this one. I think 3/4 acre ish. Great rye crop, and to my surprise a lot of clover embedded in it all. I had clover there over a year ago and tilled it up when we got no rain all last summer and it fried. I spread the rye late last summer. Well, a lot of residual clover came back. I spread 5 lbs of brassi in half of it to see how it might do in the rye thatch. Will see what happens.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 8, 2022 18:41:30 GMT -6
Got one plot done last Thursday. I forget the size of this one. I think 3/4 acre ish. Great rye crop, and to my surprise a lot of clover embedded in it all. I had clover there over a year ago and tilled it up when we got no rain all last summer and it fried. I spread the rye late last summer. Well, a lot of residual clover came back. I spread 5 lbs of brassi in half of it to see how it might do in the rye thatch. Will see what happens. I mowed off the fox tail in my shooting lane today. Maybe I should have thrown some turnips in before mowing. Did you spread the brassica before mowing?
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 8, 2022 18:58:00 GMT -6
I did. And man that was a workout. The rye was tangled big time.
I havent high stepped that much since I played football in Junior high!
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