Spring Food Plots ETX

[HogHunter34]

Yep I'm planning to go with Iron Clay Cowpeas. Looking around now for a source.
Drycreek where do you buy yours at? Steele's in Troup or East Tx Seed Co. in Tyler?

[texasdeerhunter]

We planted crimson clover when we did our fall plots. So the clover will be popping here in a couple of weeks. That should carry us over into April, then we will mow and disc and plant IC peas, sunflower, some milo, and probably some millet. We normally buy a mix and then supplement with extra IC peas and soybeans

[AntlerCollector]

I’m in the Pineywoods and I plant Iron and Clay Cowpeas. Easy to grow with very little moisture required. Deer will mow it down in days though if your plot is too small. I’m planting around 6 acres. Wait till your last chance of frost has ended and soil warms a bit. I start preparing my soil in early March to be ready to plant by the end of March or early April just before a good rain. If you have a high deer density and can’t plant at least 3 or 4 acres save your money. Once they find the cowpeas they will wipe it out within days.

This ^^^^ is what I do as well

[dbaio1]

We plant Alyce clover, Lablab and a mix of Cow peas and American Jointvetch.

[.243 WSSM]

We plant Alyce clover, Lablab and a mix of Cow peas and American Jointvetch.

In terms of drought tolerance, what have you seen with lab lab? Is it the same or more so compared with cow peas?

[dbaio1]

In terms of drought tolerance, what have you seen with lab lab? Is it the same or more so compared with cow peas?

We have good luck with both. But to be honesty we have luckily avoided bad drought the last few years. Seems like our drought period comes when it's close to time.to plant fall plots. We do concentrate the lablab to good moisture retaining areas.

[Drycreek3189]

Yep I'm planning to go with Iron Clay Cowpeas. Looking around now for a source.
Drycreek where do you buy yours at? Steele's in Troup or East Tx Seed Co. in Tyler?

Steele buys his at ET Seeds so it’s six of one and a half dozen of the other. I got two batches of it at two different times that had pigweed seed in it though. Had to burn it down and go RR beans two years in a row at Mt. Enterprise to get rid of it. I’m currently fighting that same thing on my lease. Beans are more expensive but I think I’m sticking with RR beans from now on.

[lovemylegacy]

I dont plant Spring plots anymore, but what I will do is broadcast some fertlizer.
However, Soybeans are the best for a Spring plot.

[RMW]

Just put out so more fertilizer on the winter wheat before the storm. Anybody else fertilize a 2nd time to sweeten up the plots for the deer?

[Radar]

I am a long ways from y'all, and I have to plant drought resistant varieties. I plant IC peas and sunflowers as well, usually by mid July most everything will be dried up.

A few years ago I started planting Sunn Hemp and that stuff will last till fall, the deer will eat the heck out of it. It is extremely drought tolerant.

[Drycreek3189]

I am a long ways from y'all, and I have to plant drought resistant varieties. I plant IC peas and sunflowers as well, usually by mid July most everything will be dried up.

A few years ago I started planting Sunn Hemp and that stuff will last till fall, the deer will eat the heck out of it. It is extremely drought tolerant.

I tried it one time Jeff, but I don’t know what happened to it. I planted it with IC peas, the idea being that maybe after they ate the peas down maybe the sunn hemp would survive, but it didn’t happen that way. I should probably try the sunn hemp by itself.

[Radar]

I tried it one time Jeff, but I don’t know what happened to it. I planted it with IC peas, the idea being that maybe after they ate the peas down maybe the sunn hemp would survive, but it didn’t happen that way. I should probably try the sunn hemp by itself.

I was told to plant Sunn Hemp when it stays above 60 degrees at night. I too have noticed that the peas out grew the Sunn Hemp and choked it out or shaded too much.

Last year I did a peredovik sunflower/sunn hemp mix. The sunflowers never amounted to much and died out early with no head. The sunn hemp had a few straggler plants that survived and were still green in October when I plowed.