Best plot for hunting season

What's everyone's favourite mix or sole plant for a kill plot? I was planning on planting in August for brassicas??? Anyone have a better suggestion? Thanks

 

8/1 always plant a seed mix batch of winter rye/rape/ptt.

 

I have had good luck with a mix of winter rye, forage oats, clover and groundhog forage radish. Planted towards the end of August early September in my area.

 

What is ptt?

 

Purple top turnip. I also do 4700 feet of pumpkins.

 

Well I will see if I can keep over grazing to a min., if I can I think my Iorn Clay Cow Peas and Sweet Blue Lupine mixed with oats and wheat should be a heck of a deadly combo this fall.

 

If you plant a mix such as your winter rye, rape, and turnips do you still have to rotate crops every few seasons ?????

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No expert but I wouldn't think that would be necessary / I wouldn't plant an annual rye grass of any kind if you hope to annually plant rape and turnips as rye grass can cause issues as it reseeds it's self.

I'm not even sure why you'd want to plant that mix you mentioned annually - why not rotate and see what works the best? Rape and especially turnips take some time before the deer really get use to them, at the same time if food sources are at a min. they will find a quick taste of them!

 

Never plant Rye grass..PSE is talking about rye grain..big difference.

 

Ya I want to avoid any perennials. I'm in a problem now due to perennials. They just overtake everything. So no one like brassicas then eh? I have two bags of biologic brassicas. I was going to use them on one plot. Ill try some of these ryes on another.

I drive around farms and see them now with a crop that as a really bright yellow flower of some sort. What is it? I see huge fields of golden yellow??? Anyone??

 

I plant daikon radishes and dwarf essex rape. I've tried Ptt but never had any luck with them here due to all the standing corn i assume and the fact the deer move out to winter feeding grounds dec-feb.

 

Sunflowers??

 

No no. They stand about 24" tall. It's not really a large flower. It's just the tops are yellow. I just drove past like 8 fields in a row on way home today and I could see golden yellow for miles. Not sure. Ill stop and ask next time. Then drop the ole "you have a coyote problem here"

 

Dono could be canola or sweet clover they both flower yellow or maybe a whitetail favorite like birdsfoot - couple gueses. Take a picture and post it we can figure it out anyway.

 

Ok thanks for the clairification - I understand the difference was just relating it to his "rotating" question and wanted to be clear he wasn't talking about the grass.

QDMA reccomends a rye mixed with wheat, durana white clover and chicory.

 

Same place for 37 years. 320 wooded surrounded by 140 ag(corn/soybeans) and same 12 acres of foodplots. Always plant the same mix, never rotate. The deer hammer the winter rye (not grass) till Oct, then pumpkins till hard frost, then rape, then dec thru feb when the ptt get hammered. Winter rye at green up, cut,bail in mid June. Nuke, disc, fertilize July, replant end of July.$40/acre is seed cost. We have 200-300 dpsm and take 6 bucks/35 baldies/year. Over 50 book bucks. It works for me.

 

No, there is a possible root fungus with ptt but have not had that yet after many years.

 

Glad you found sometbin that works for you - I think I said rotate until you find something that works for you. I mean if your a first or second year food plotter best way to learn is to play with different seed combos.

 

Very true, just be aware of most BOB seed tags will show lots of filler like rye grass. Save $$$$ and buy at the feed mill and mix your own. BOB seed= $5/lb. Feedmill seed=50 cents/lb. 10 times the price for a purdy buck on the bag? I love this country.

 

The best kill plots we have are a mix of clover/soybeans/sunflower/forage turnips planted in late August for hunting from Oct-early Nov and then separate plots planted with purple top turnips/dwarf essex rape around strips of corn (corn for hiding the ground blinds) for late Dec-Jan hunts.

Also I noticed a comment about no one using brassicas. I could be wrong but I believe "brassicas" is a class of plants which includes turnips, radishes, rape, kale and such. So yes, people are using brassicas, we are just clarifying specifically which types.