Plant Identification

dpendzic

Well-known Member
Can any one identify what i have growing in my food plot?
it was planted in 2012 with Backwoods Blend which contained triticale,oats, tetraploid annual ryegrass, red clover and forage rape

or do i have just weeds now???
Thanks
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Looks like thistle and I see none of the stuff you mentioned. It might be under all the weeds. That's why I don't buy packaged mixes. Price each of those seeds in your mix by the pound and see what you paid for the mix. A good mix for deer is 40 # of wheat, 10# crimson clover and 20# Austrian winter pea per acre. Great spring cover for turkeys.

Larry
 
You have a fantastic thistle patch, along with some other noxious crap. If I was you, I'd hop on a mower and cut it before it blooms or you'll be fighting them next year too!
 
thanks guys--i will bush hog it down and I guess plow and/or disc it under--if i plant oats would that keep any new growth down?
 
With Canada thistle you are better off just keep mowing it. It thrives on disturbed sites, so mowing and then plowing will just create a environment that promotes growth. Canada thistle is mostly a biannual and if you stop it from flowering and seeding you will be ok in two years. It has a large clonal system of roots inter-connecting the plants.
 
Young Canada thistle leaves are edible and remarkably tasty. Individual leaves can be rolled up to smash the spines and eaten like that, or placed whole on sandwiches. Young thistles or thistle tops can also be boiled as a potherb. The stalks, while still flexible, can be peeled and eaten raw. The plants seem highly nutritious and might make a healthy green drink with the aid of a blender.
 
Thats' and easy question - People who were starving to death. Does not surprise me that thistles are rich in nutrition with the deep root system they have.
 
Yep Canadian Thistle, I was in northern Georgia in 2006 for a wedding and the groom asked me what this plant was. It was Canadian thistle. He said they didn't have it until they bought hay from Kentucky when Georgia had there drought. I said that isn't bad, wait till you get the Bull Thistle, Russian Thistle, Multiflora Rose and Prickly Ash, then you will have a problem.
 
On a good note I do see a few stalks of grass. Just don't hire Eb Dawson to weed it he will want to pull the grass cause it would be quicker and easier! LOL
 
We just call it thistle, but it is here in Kentucky, we tend to spray it before it gets to big. Was told it comes from bird feeders that use thistle seed.
 
Yep the folks feeding birds thistle seed probably are not land owners! People have no thought when doing things. Like the government, when they said to use the multiflora rose for a live fence, so our neighbors at the time planted a couple fence rows of the stuff. It was before my time, but it is everywhere now!
 
I am not much for spraying but if you hit them with Roundup when in full bloom you will be rid of them forever. They come back from the root. I learned that on these forums. You wont get rid of this years plants but if you wait for them to die they wont come back.
 
They are spread by the roots, every time you disc or cut them up you turn a two foot patch into a four foot next year, just spray it.
Mike
 

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