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Why not glyphosate? If you spray in mid may in Connecticut with glyphosate, everything will be small and green, and mid July everything should be dead as a doornail. Lightly till or top dress your brassicas in mid July (not mid August) and have a Great food plot by first frost in September...

That 50g should do the trick. With pines growing there, you are going to need tons of lime. Get a soil sample ASAP and plan on hauling in about 3 tons of lime per acre to get your soil to a workable 6.5 PH. It will take 6 months for the lime to do its work so take this into consideration...

Check out the Leupold VX 3i's 4.5 x 15 CDS's. The CDS line of scopes allow you to tailor your round to the scope, range the ground hog, dial the yardage, hold dead on and shoot.

Small plots in my opinion are better hunting plots. Partly because they can be hunted for different winds, variety but the biggest reason is deer feel more secure on smaller plots and will utilize them more during daylight hours. If you want to feed deer (mainly at night) then go with large...

Seed to soil contact is ALL that is needed for most seed. With bigger seed like oats, rye, winter wheat and peas, we normally disc, run a cultipacker over the entire area (to compact the soil somewhat, get rid of ruts and help level the soil) sow the seed and cultipack once more. With small...

Not the way a state needs to start an Inaugural Elk season. A resident hunter and local guide that can't follow their own hunting regulations. No hunting from a public road and shooting over a public road. Not only did they get ticketed, have to appear in court and get publicly humiliated by...

Check out the Scoutlook weather app. Gives you weather, scent cone, major and minor times, sun rise and sunset and moon phases for your exact stand location via google maps. Then go hunt.

Another valid point ST.

Paul is spot on if you have optimum conditions. That means 150 lbs of nitrogen per acre, 1 inch of rain per week and excellent sun on the plot. If you are only using PTT and DER (5 lbs total maybe 7 max), then they will fill in very nicely due to their giant leaves. Radishes grow straight up...

Thanks JFK for the thumbs up. Only passing on our successes so others can benefit. Hope your build is a GREAT one.

How much nitrogen? and when? If you have had the rain we had over the last month, your nitrogen is gone (leached out of the soil or has been consumed due to the overcrowding) Brassicas love nitrogen (100 to 150 lbs per acre is the norm) with a 5 lb per acre seeding rate.

Normal rate for brassicas is 5 lbs per acre. Brassicas have big leaves when mature and should be given room to spread out. Yellowing is probably due to nitrogen deficiency.

One other point we follow religiously is to keep fresh grease in the pillow blocks. Put a couple of pumps of grease in each fitting before every use. This will keep any sand and water out of the bearing surfaces and make sure you keep a rag handy and remove any excess grease prior to using the...

Excellent find. Sounds as if you have everything going your way. Pillow blocks with grease fittings are definitely the way to go. For me, I would rethink greasing the shaft before putting the wheels on. The grease will attract dirt and sand and could cause problems later. When we built...