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Post by Sandbur on Jul 4, 2024 3:52:44 GMT -6
This might be my best food plot year ever ! I’m confident I won’t get skunked in 2024 !Arrows might be a flying 😊!! both my neighbor and I have been seeing lots of twin fawns this year. Numbers appear to be up, but we aren't seeing shit for bucks. That's not unusual though, seems we've got the dreaded doe factory here. Come late September if I'm not getting pics of something exciting, I'll be a bit surprised. The bucks will show up with the pre rut/ rut. Over here, it seems like bucks move out of the woods this time of year, as do many deer. I think some are in the corn fields and meadows. Usually our resident bachelor bucks move to a willow patch near a water way that is surrounded by fields. It is usually one of two waterways.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 4, 2024 4:02:07 GMT -6
I saw that it was so wet up at foggy’s that watermelon now grow on trees. in all truth, I hope we get another inch or inch and a half of rain. The irrigators have just started to run. My neighbor finished up the hay as of last night. Crops look great.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 4, 2024 6:35:34 GMT -6
The puddles on my north plot finally dried up this week. Another inch plus of rain now would delay planting that plot for a week or so. A few tenths to knock the road dust down would be OK though.
I'll take whatever we get. After last year, I don't think I'll ever curse rainfall
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Post by smsmith on Jul 6, 2024 10:28:54 GMT -6
Got the north plot done today. The upper/drier section to a mix of falcata and vernal alfalfa. The lower/wetter section to wetland alfalfa and aberlasting clover. I also seeded aberlasting all along the edge of the plot where it meets the woods. Aberlasting is supposed to have great shade tolerance. Also threw in a very small amount of PTT seed. I dragged all of it. Plenty of soil moisture. I'd think it should really take off.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 6, 2024 15:32:37 GMT -6
.5" in the rain gauge when we got home a bit ago. Plot should be set
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 6, 2024 16:16:32 GMT -6
.5" in the rain gauge when we got home a bit ago. Plot should be set Not a drop.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 6, 2024 20:02:07 GMT -6
Got a whole bunch more later.
I should have got the crick plot done too. My knee just wasn't cooperating
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 7, 2024 5:13:09 GMT -6
Got a whole bunch more later. I should have got the crick plot done too. My knee just wasn't cooperating So far, the Ace knee wrap that you recommended is allowing me to do 80% of what I used to do. We did get some rain during the night. Hopefully enough to allow the alfalfa to continue to green up after the second cutting. They did split the second cutting up by a few days, which was good. Different stages of regrowth.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 7, 2024 6:03:34 GMT -6
Got a whole bunch more later. I should have got the crick plot done too. My knee just wasn't cooperating So far, the Ace knee wrap that you recommended is allowing me to do 80% of what I used to do. We did get some rain during the night. Hopefully enough to allow the alfalfa to continue to green up after the second cutting. They did split the second cutting up by a few days, which was good. Different stages of regrowth. I sent u a text from my new #.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 7, 2024 7:17:18 GMT -6
So far, the Ace knee wrap that you recommended is allowing me to do 80% of what I used to do. We did get some rain during the night. Hopefully enough to allow the alfalfa to continue to green up after the second cutting. They did split the second cutting up by a few days, which was good. Different stages of regrowth. I sent u a text from my new #. Thank you!
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Post by smsmith on Jul 7, 2024 7:20:23 GMT -6
Got a whole bunch more later. I should have got the crick plot done too. My knee just wasn't cooperating I'm now wondering about seed washing out. We got over 1.5" in a hurry yesterday evening. The north plot has some decent elevation changes. I'm hoping that the dragging will help keep seed in place.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 7, 2024 8:12:15 GMT -6
Got a whole bunch more later. I should have got the crick plot done too. My knee just wasn't cooperating I'm now wondering about seed washing out. We got over 1.5" in a hurry yesterday evening. The north plot has some decent elevation changes. I'm hoping that the dragging will help keep seed in place. If you were closer, I have an oil filled roller drum. About 30 inches wide. With oil in it, I don’t have to drain it in the winter.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 7, 2024 8:21:18 GMT -6
I'm now wondering about seed washing out. We got over 1.5" in a hurry yesterday evening. The north plot has some decent elevation changes. I'm hoping that the dragging will help keep seed in place. If you were closer, I have an oil filled roller drum. About 30 inches wide. With oil in it, I don’t have to drain it in the winter. thanks. I've got a cultipacker, I figured the drag was a better choice for the alfalfa seed. I probably should have dragged and cultipacked. Time will tell I suppose
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Post by smsmith on Jul 8, 2024 12:56:38 GMT -6
I got the crick plot planted and dragged today. Awfully wet to get to, damn near got stuck a couple times. Plot itself wasn't too bad. Put a turnip/radish mix (two times around due to different seed size) on most of it and ran a double pass of fixation balansa around the edge where it meets the woods.
That's it for plots on my place this year, unless I have to re do the north plot due to seed wash out anyway.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 9, 2024 3:29:38 GMT -6
I got the crick plot planted and dragged today. Awfully wet to get to, damn near got stuck a couple times. Plot itself wasn't too bad. Put a turnip/radish mix (two times around due to different seed size) on most of it and ran a double pass of fixation balansa around the edge where it meets the woods. That's it for plots on my place this year, unless I have to re do the north plot due to seed wash out anyway. If you have washout, you could scatter some rye.
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