Been real dry around my place, no rain since early October. I planted purple top turnips, Daikon radish, Elbon rye, clover and forage oats. The radishes and turnips are huge, but the rest of the seed has laid dormant because of the drought. Hoping for rain this week.
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How about some fall food plot pics and such
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The field with the brush pile in it is near a creek and an adjoining pasture. The pasture is right at 1/4 mile wide. In the evenings you can sit at one end of the food plot and watch the does walk single file across the 1/4 mile pasture to get to the turnips. That pasture has my cattle in so there is no trees or cover, I was amazed the first time I seen it. I would not think they would cross open ground like that.
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Originally posted by brokeno View PostYou must have had more rain than me. Mine came up and died. Wait til you get a freeze the turnips will turn sweet and the deer will go nuts over them.
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It’s been really dry around my house, too. I worked a little harder than usual this year on plot preparation & fertilizing, thank goodness. I have 17 acres between 3 plots at the house that are looking good, for now. Getting a good rain tonight, so they should be good for the duration.
The deer are just now starting to hit them decently because there are still dry acorns in the woods. This rain and the cold snap later this week should help me out. I’ve got a couple big boys that should be getting hungry soon.
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I don't have any pics of my creek bottom plot at Mt. Enterprise, but the wheat in the exclusion cage is about a foot tall, so looks can be decieving as far as how much forage has actually been available. This pic is in Trinity Co. where I planted GRO Mass Builder. I've not had over 2.5 to 3 inches of rain on this since I planted, but I got some Sunday, although I don't know how much. There's a feeder at the end of the plot, but as Houston Hunter said, the deer stay in the plot mostly and don't eat that much corn.
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Originally posted by Radar View PostRazrbk89 your plot looks good, much better than mine.
The deer haven’t been hitting them yet besides maybe nibbling some clover. I expect that to change in the next week or two, and I’m betting I’ll have a lot of new bucks on camera. Good plots can really draw the deer in from a distance!
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