mountainshadow
Yearling... With promise
For the past few years, I have done the typical mow, spray, disc, broadcast, and pray for rain method in my food plots. I let them go the past two years and only mowed them, and they did have enough clover to keep the deer coming so I didn't worry much about it. But early this year, I decided I wanted to pick the planting back up and decided to go the no till method. I bought a Genesis 3 and have just about any implement needed. In June, I went through and sprayed all of my plots and got a great kill. After about 3-4 weeks, the weeds decomposed and left a very thin layer of brown thatch that I was pleased with. I came back in August and to my surprise I had weeds that were 4-5 ft tall and just as thick as they were when I sprayed in June. So without mowing them, I came through again with the 3 pt boom sprayer and sprayed all of my plots again. After a week, this is the result. I had planned to no till directly through the killed thatch, but I'm concerned the thatch may be too thick and I don't have 3-4 weeks to allow it to decompose. Any suggestions?