|
|
#1
07-16-2008, 11:31 AM
|
||||
|
||||
food plot help
I am gettin ready to till up about 5 acres of sun slammed field that currently has about crotch deep mahaya (mahair? Muh somthinanother) grass on it that NOBODY wants for free hay around here. I am going to turn that part of the property into a food plot. We are talking about land with good drainage, decent soil, not nearly enough water on this particular spot, and about 900+ hours of sunshine a day. Been a cowpasture for 97 or so years. Now its an empty pasture.
ANYWAY I am thinking about planting a mixture of oaks, and peas, but I would like to throw two more food sources into the mix. Clover is out because the PH is off and I can't afford to sink thousands into this plot to change it (nor do I want the runoff into the springs 75 yards away) I have considered alfalfa, but the water or lack thereof could be an issure. Chickory won't do much better. Any ideas? Had one guy suggest I throw okra seed in with it. GoodOlBoy
__________________
(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 
|
|
#2
07-16-2008, 05:28 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Chickpeas will work, don't need ph high so no lime needed. Just plant them like soybeans.
I have been pruning and rooting Honeysuckle vines and now have to cover the plants with wire mesh or the deer will eat the whole plant. I just do the fencerows with honeysuckle.
__________________
I don't know but I've been told it's hard to swim with the weight of gold. On the other hand I have heard it said it's just as hard with the weight of lead.
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
