Sun hemp & browntop millet mix

Plot screen = Egyptian wheat & sorghum

Looking good Mr. Swamp. I see that cultipacker is being put to good use.

Have I mentioned before… y’all have REALLY sandy soil.

I’ve never utilized sun hemp. Always sunflower, millet and buckwheat here in the summer. Curious if you’ve ever tried the buckwheat? I like sowing my brassicas and wheat / cereal rye into it before spraying and rolling it down with my cultipacker for my winter plots.

I had a pretty good pea patch that got taken over by goat weed

Gonna do some things different next year

Debating spraying it or letting it go for the doves

Was able to get some protein out before I had surgery. These two are showing up the one is further along than the others I have on cam.

That cultipacker is a game changer in this sand. Hard to hold moisture. The cultipacker is saving a lot of seed.

We've been blessed with regular rains lately. So far, it has been a good summer plot growing season.

I have planted buckwheat (in mixes) in the past. It did pretty good. I'll likely plant some again next summer.

My plots aren't big enough to overload the deer pressure so they hammer those choice plantings. I may not be able to get the plots of sun hemp up to about a foot or so....time will tell. Mixing it with the bt millet is an experiment to see if the millet will "hide" it for a while. But, it's outpacing the millet...lol. BT millet will hide cowpeas pretty good for a while.

It ain't too late to burn that plot down with glyphosate and re-plant. You got plenty of time left for a re-do.

My biggest plot is 1 acre. Several are one half acre. Most are under one half acre. I usually plant about two acres or so in summer stuff. This year...2.5 acres in 9 plots, including 1 acre of chufa for the turkeys.

I have several (about 20 plots = 6 total acres) on 400 acres, but I have skimped on doe harvest past few years and it's difficult to grow summer plots with peas. Sunflowers and sun hemp are difficult too. I've gotta kill 10 or 12 does this fall or start fencing summer plots.

Nice Slipknot.

I usually wait until around August 1st to start the feeders back up. They've been off since a couple weeks b4 our spring turkey season opened back in late March.

Reason I wait until late summer is to the give the fawns and poults a little more time to grow so they can evade predators more effectively. The feeders bunch up the hens with poults and avian predators just perch near the feeders and pick them off. The fawns will follow the doe to the feeders and a crouched bobcat or coyote. Does waiting till August save a few?...not sure...but I think it does.

Talk about sandy soil.....this is one of the recently planted chufa plots.....easy for the turkeys to scratch 'em up this winter in that sand...lol

I’m looking for an umbrella and a Corona in that last pic!

Lol!

For sure! It is sugar sand. Only holds nutrients until the next heavy rain.

I am old and lazy. 25’ wide pass with a boom sprayer and 25 ft wide pass with a spreader and millet looking decent. Doesnt help field got flooded two days before this pic. We have NO sand

WhiteCliffs,
Appears you have struggles with finding a decent seed spreader, too.

I havent had much trouble out of this spreader as long as you dont put fertilizer in it. I run it up high like that so I can get over the top of weeds, and my sprayer will sit below it so I can seed and spray in one pass. I wouldnt say it is rock solid, but other than having to replace the electronic seed gate after running some ammonium nitrate through it, has been running fine since 2018.

Nice

Like me...rigging up something works pretty good sometimes.

How are you able to take 10-12 does?
normal hunting license or special permits?

I wish I could thin 10-12 does, when there are too many deer they really can get destructive.

curious, how many acres are you talking about here?

Georgia season limit is 10 antlerless deer per person per season.

My son, his wife and a select guest or two will kill does too...if I can talk them in to it...lol

Nobody wants to kill a doe. This is where we come up short in this area. We have so many deer that killing a buck (and usually an older buck) is not that difficult. This is all private lands (nearest public land is 30 plus miles) and everyone does some deer management (food plots/supplemental feeding/voluntary antler restrictions/etc......some do a little...some do a lot of habitat manipulation....timber thinnings/prescribed burning, etc.

I'm limited on the timber management part as I lease the 400 acres from a timber company. But, they allow me to do controlled burns and plant food plots.

400 acres of timbered riverbottom and sand ridge with very limited hunting pressure by my neighbors on surrounding 3000 plus acres.

Estimated deer per square mile = 40 to 45.