We have 4+acres that are currently smoldering desert with some scattered oats popping up. Scorched earth. We had sugar beets, turnips, radishes, clover, chickory, buckwheat, oats, peas.......in various mixtures throughout. With no real rain in site we were thinking of waiting until the next hard rain and see how much dormant seed comes up before reseeding........but if we do that how late can we wait and what should we concentrate our reseed efforts with? Thanks
Maybe try Buckwheat along with something else. I've heard great thing about what buckwheat does to the soil, if for any other reason you can plant it for preparation of 2013 plots.
What part of NY are you in. In southern NY we have gotten a lot of rain. We even had a huge storm this past Sunday.
I'd love to plant some stuff here soon, but the longer our drought lasts the smaller a window gets...not a good year here in IN for sure! If I can get brassicas in and growing I feel those will be the ticket late season if I haven't tagged a nice buck!
All my food plots are toast as well but no rain in the foreseeable future Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Rape, winter oats(various brands have various names), snow peas, and radishes will grow late into the fall...the peas and radishes may not reach full potential but will provide enough food to attract deer when planted in the end of august here(I'm sure we have a shorter growing season than you), and the deer browse the plants/greens if the fruit/tuber are not developed enough...I have planted rape and oats in early sept. and the rape will be well developed by mid Oct.(handles frost well) and the oats end up getting browsed but seem to end up being more an early spring browse. And then there is always clover, though planting late summer/fall will be better for next years growth than what you will see this year. Beets can provide a forage with a late plant as well but the return isn't as good as you won't have much but the greens to eat and small beets.
Plots def suffered bad this year! I will be planting some oats around the first week of Sept to keep them ideal for late Sept
I just got my brassicas in this week and that can be planted until end of July. I will be planting a mix of winter rye and oats and peas in mid to late August. If I was you I would split your field with 50% each that way you can hunt early to late and the rye will be there for spring for turkey hunting if you do that. Yea we just got rain to night!!!!
Brassicas. I used to plant maximum and full draw first week of August every year in northern tier pa in the first week of August and they always were perfectly timed for first week of Oct.
Thanks guys. I was hoping for some rain so we can see if we have any viable seed in the ground. If not we are gonna redo all brasicas by the end of first week of August and oats towards the end of the month.
+1 what he said...Northern Indiana has been terribly dry. I'm going to plant about 2 1/2 acres of brassicas. Im going to wait as long as i can, probably about august 15th or so. If we dont get rain by then im going to have to get creative.....(I'm thinking either a water truck or a submersible pump in the river, a generator, and A LOT of garden hose)
There is a type of millet that can do ok in dry conditions - will need water to germinate though and they grow best through summer and good sun. Not the deers number one food here though they will hit it pretty hard for a couple weeks just after the first frost - but if it's the only ticket in town?!?!?...one other thing is certain strains in certain areas can be pretty invasive and take over like rye can. http://www.deercreekseed.com/pearl-millet-pennisetum-gla/ I'm going out to plant my browntop right now
