My brothers planting lab lab and cow peas i think, is this what your referring to? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
My brother is planting a pumpkin patch for deer. I might try it as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Deer do love to lurk around in pumpkin patches. I'm not exactly sure why they love them so much but our deer were continuously in our 2017 patch from Sept. through April. The pumpkins were long gone by Feb. but they still came into it every afternoon/evening even with a feeder sitting 220 yards away and bean residue and wheat everywhere. I think they like to pick around through the little bit of everything smorgasbord in them. I imagine they even eat the pumpkin seeds I've noticed for years how a pumpkin patch draws deer. I may plant a big patch on the ranch this year just as a food plot and try spraying it with Sandea over the top to keep it somewhat clean.
We had one next to my brassica plot in the neighbors field last year and they smoked it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Just got done a few hours ago doing my annual pumpkins/squash plots. For you guys that wanna do it, here is what I do. Plant seeds in rows about 5 feet apart. Wen they get about 10-12 inches high, go down the rows and cover them with a 5 gallon bucket. You can than spray the spaces with Roundup. Once they get going, they REALLY go and do a good job of shading out weeds. Been doing this for years and they make a SUPER mid- late season plot. Cheap and easy! The 5-8 lb sugar pie pumpkins and Buttercup squash is what I plant.
Nope, just pumkns/squash. Never tried planting anything with them as I would expect the leaves and vines would choke anything out? Once my plots mature, can hardly walk through them. Perhaps a white clover could work? I have brassics,oats,winter wheat,cerial rye,every year but once they start on the p/s, it's the main draw. They seem to start eating the squash a bit earlier. Usually about early October. Have had up to 35 deer in 1/4 acre plot at one time. Sota, have never seen them eat the flowers?
Not disputing but I've not seen it in the 10 years planting them. One more thing to add, they do need water. I put those flags that have the wire post at the base of each plant because once they get big, it's hard to find the base. If rain is in short supply, fill a tote with water and give each plant a 5 gallon bucket once about August.
Interesting reading on the pumpkins but do any of you have major hog problems where you hunt? Think that I'ld like to give it a try but figure the hogs would wipe it out unless I fenced it in?
I have a buddy that works at a garden center and they sell pumpkins in the fall. I used to buy everything that they have leftover after Halloween and dump it out by one of my food plots. They tear them up, mostly for the seeds. However, just like corn it brings the hogs around so I stopped. I know that Cucurbita, pumpkins and winter squash, are a natural dewormer. We used to grow pumpkins to finish out our farm hogs on just for that reason.
How much of that action is because of the feeder? I see guys say how their foodplots are magnets but then they have a feeder setup year round in the middle of it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Out of three plots this is the only one with a feeder and the only camera I am running right now. The other two plots are larger but they are grazing them just the same. I completely turned them under in late February, amended and planted on 4/21. All three have the same mix of buckwheat, vetch, clover and chicory. I like buckwheat bc it mines a lot of phosphorus in a short amount of time which in turn helps the chicory and clover. They will have the buckwheat down to nothing in another two weeks but by then the vetch will be getting grazed.
