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steve19438

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so as a new deer plotter I spent waaaaaay too much and bought a mixed container of seed. supposed to have clover, chicory and other stuff. can anyone identify what's growing????

thanks!!!
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Anytime you buy a bag of seed with a picture of a deer on it you pay to much. Try buying from a Coop.
Send a lots of time on the site below. More time you send there the less money you'll send.
I can't tell much in your picture. But looks like you might have some oats and turnips coming up.
I've got corn, oats, buck wheat, barely, beets and soy beans growing in my plot this year.
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so far I have planted buckwheat, wheat and this mixed bag of goodies. none of the pics I looked up looks like what I got growing. as long as the deer like it though that's all that matters.
 
Looks good Steve.
But I can't help on the ID.
Fuddy Duddy is right though. Go to your local coop or feed/seed store and mix your own. They will have bins and you just buy it by the pound.
I used to buy their local Big Rack Mix. Was about an 8 lb bag - enough for about 2 acres.
But the last couple of years they kept increasing the cost. Till it was about $60+ for the bag.
And I thought it had a bit too much turnip in it so the other plants kind of got crowded out.
This year I mixed my own. Bought about 6 lb of red clover and half a lb of rutabaga - which we like to eat.
Cost was about $26 IIRC.
I was up there this weekend and was a bit disappointed though.
I plowed and seeded 3 weeks ago but none of the clover was up yet. Some of the rutabaga was up. I also threw in about $2 worth of big carrot seeds in one corner of the plot.
I know all the critters will want to eat them but maybe they'll leave a few for us.
 
Clover (tiny stuff close to ground), some kind of small grain (tall bluish stuff), and maybe chicory (lower right of picture?).

I don't do deer plots, but I do plant cover crops that I use for rotational grazing & till down green manures. I buy the seed in 50lb bags from my seed dealer and then hand mix in 5 gal pails. It's a lot cheaper, as others have said. You can do it even more inexpensively by buying some traditional feed grains, such as oats, rye, sunflower seeds, and corn and drill or broadcast that. Feed is a fraction of the cost of certified seed. The small grains have a quick maturity, so if you want to retain palatability, plant 4-8 weeks prior to frost. Rye will handle a hard freeze, oats will hold up under repeated light frosts, depending on growth stage. Corn freezes, but stocks retain a lot of sugar even after freezing.

Colin, MN
 
Good info Colin.
I have heard that farmers in the southwest - AZ, NM, etc will plant winter wheat in the fall then let cattle graze on it.
Come spring, take the cattle off and they still get a crop.
The second year I had my 2N I plowed and disked about a 3 acre field then drilled rye into it.
Had a very heavy crop but no means or need to harvest it. About September I bush hogged it off and ran over the field with a disc - wheels set almost straight - which cut a lot of seed back into the soil. Had another good crop the next year but couldn't get up there that fall to do it again so that was the end of it.
 

Do deer dig up and eat root crops ? I don't have time this year to repair my new to me disc but I would glady hand so some stuff even if I only got 10% to grow it would be OK .
 
I would certainly think so. They seem to eat pretty much anything. Been in our onions last week or so.

You can hand sew those seeds, but you'll need something to work them into the soil. A light drag might work.

Colin
 
Lacking a way to harvest the seeds also, I've also disked in the previous growth and let the stand seed itself. Worked pretty good. We used to do this with buckwheat when I was a kid. Now I generally graze my cover crops before they seed out, as I follow up that cycle with vegetables.

There's a guy by the name of Gabe Brown over in N. Dak. who's been doing some really interesting research on combining an early maturing grain followed by a cover crop of 20-30 different annual species which are then grazed.

Colin
 
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