If I had the space for it, I’d rather have peanuts over chufas.
Food plotting
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Amos Keeto
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Plant peanuts where I hunt and the deer wouldn't let them last! Deer LOVE peanuts!
Lot'sa peanut growers back in East Texas where I grew up!
Amos Keeto
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Hey! Whatever works!
If planting chrysanthemums drew in deer, I'd plant 'em!
I can’t wait. I truly believe some crops are a learned behavior, for instance turnips, I think it needs to be a generational thing that does teach fawns. Eating the tops is one thing, learning to dig up a field towards the end of season for the roots I think is learned.
I’m gonna start w wheat and cereal rye, beardless wheat rather and cereal rye in 2-3 diff plots and boarder with some sorghum and turnips and see how it does. I believe the wheat and rye will at nutrients to the soil, help regulate it a bit, and maybe rotate between candy crops and wheat / rye fields.
I’m gonna start w wheat and cereal rye, beardless wheat rather and cereal rye in 2-3 diff plots and boarder with some sorghum and turnips and see how it does. I believe the wheat and rye will at nutrients to the soil, help regulate it a bit, and maybe rotate between candy crops and wheat / rye fields.
300# per acre? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who carpets the earth with seed but you have me beat.
I just need a way to get rain on demand. This past fall was tough.
This year I did one 50 lbs bag of each per acre and it just wasn’t enough. I’ve found that the deer can’t eat it, if it’s not there. Lol
If your fields are big enough, you can separate the plantings(rye in one section, wheat in another, etc) in one field to see what they prefer.
Good luck!
That was an idea. I’ve also done some research and what I’ve learned is that planting candy crops (soybean, corn, sorghum) stuff like that is great but it doesn’t complete the nutrient cycle they need and desire and therefore seek. Often times people will plant a soybean or corn field and see the deer smacking the roughage on the outside just as well to complete they requirements, so not this upcoming season, but the one to follow I’m thinking one large candy crop and one large wheat/rye crop
I like to break mine into 2 fields. I'm in central PA so it would probably work there too. I do half in a brassica mix of purple top turnips, dwarf essex rape, and groundhog radish at the end of July/beginning of August. The other half at the beginning of September with a mix of cereal rye, oats, and white clover. The clover doesn't do much until spring but it gets a great start with the fall planting. I find the 2 mixes much better than mixing the brassicas with the grains. I alternate the 2 fields most years.
