eclipseman
5 year old buck +
Some of you saw my other posts about my crowded brassica plots. The online store that sold me the brassica told me to plant 10lbs per acre mix of PPT, DER, and GHR. Well I have good news and bad. 1 plot is doin ok...stunted but mostly still green and deer are still eating the tops. The other plot id say 30% is yellowing due to the crowding but this plot the deer mainly use at night anyway so should not impact my hunting too bad. The really bad news is my father's food plots all died! Way way way over crowded. So much so, they apparently died a few weeks ago (we haven't hunted there but we could tell the days they started dying on our trail cameras). Because they started dying awhile ago, there is actually a silver lining , which was that a lot of bare dirt was showing so we decided to throw a hail mary and spread cereal rye last week. It has already rained a few times since so assuming we do not have an extremely cold fall I think that rye should put on a few inches and start drawing deer in a couple weeks. Oh well. You live and you learn.