What's everyone planting this spring?

[hillcountryhunter]

Just curious what everyone is planting in their foodplots this spring. If you could tell us where the food plot will be located, how big, when you're planting and what you're planting? It would be neat to see what is going in across the state.

I am picking up my seed this week and heading tour ranch in Jim Wells county to plant this weekend as it looks like it might be raining down there this next week. The mix I am planting has several different kind of peas, Milo, some cereals, and a few other things thrown in.

[fritztown]

Goin with a few strips of sunflowers in strategic spots, perhaps a summer blend for deer and chufas for turkeys--hope it works. Hill Country, north of Fredericksburg.

[Landrover]

We have corn strips going into the hill country for the first time. Oh, MODS move this thread to the new MANAGEMENT forum if possible.

[hillcountryhunter]

Sorry about that Mods, keep forgetting about the new forums.

[cosmiccowboy]

We fertilized the winter rye last month and got good rains so it is still almost knee high and thick...when that finally burns out I will plant milo and black oil sunflowers for the doves this fall...

[hillcountryhunter]

I am contemplating leaving our winter plots and planting the spring plots in a new area as to avoid discing up the still green food source.

[JW]

We have corn strips going into the hill country for the first time. Oh, MODS move this thread to the new MANAGEMENT forum if possible.

That and Lab-Lab... I think Me n '[Rover will be planting Record Rack in a feeder again... Oh, 15 acres of corn and 6-10 acres of Lab-Lab..

[buffalorider]

I am contemplating leaving our winter plots and planting the spring plots in a new area as to avoid discing up the still green food source.

Good decision! This is what we do per our biologists advice to ensure that the deer don't have to go without a good food source.




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[dbaio1]

Corn
Lab Lab
Cow/Iron Clay peas
Chuffa


We plant these all in seperate plots. All plots have 3 types (Alyce, Ladino and Crimson) of clover sewn in with the fall/winter planting that come up in the early spring to compliment the main staples listed above.

Remember keep your plots fertilized and limed according to soil test or your throwing your money away. Not only for the growth but to have the right taste so the the critters are lured away from the natural browse. Although that is hard to do and will be even harder with these extremely wet conditions we are having in North Central LA this year.

[Leftridge]

I'm going to plant the Turner Seed Mix (cowpeas, lablab, chicory, peanuts, black eyed peas, mungbeans, soybeans, buckwheat and okra)... Not planting till next month though..

I really like the idea from the Drury's of green to green.. A portion of the summer plot will be tilled in for the winter plot so that the transition from "green to green" occurs on the same plot... I've seen them do it in one or two of the Dream Season DVD's and it seems successful...

[Montec man]

400 acres of corn.

[Codie]

I planted 1 protien feeder for every 200 acres!

Even if I had panned on planting a spring plot I couldn't do it because of the nonstop rain that we have had. It will be 2 months before a tractor could get into a field around here

[ryan124]

Milo

[canny]

I'm not going to have time to maintain a spring/summer food plot so I'm just going to try to establish some additional honeysuckle plots to increase the natural forage

[Uncle Doug]

Still to wet here in SE Texas. Some parts of my place still has water standing. Grandson got the RTV stuck a couple of days ago and had to winch it out.

When it does dry out I have 1 bag of Buck Buster I did not get planted last year.