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Cowpea's grow very well with adequate thatch and moisture.

I tried it with ag soybeans, cause they were so cheap($20/50lb). I had some come up, but it wasn't as good as with cowpeas because the seed is so much larger.

I'm jealous as he**! My plots are just dead thatch with seed under it(i hope anyway). We haven't had any significant rainfall in 2 months. Dry as the surface of the moon here.

Scott, thats the same scale we have. We've weighed every deer killed on our club since the early 90's. People guess at weights, and they always guess high. I hear all the time people saying how much a deer wighs and it gets comical sometimes. Where i live, a 200lb live weight buck is hard to...

Honker, you may need some nitrogen on your plots, i see a lot of yellowing, unless you've been getting a lot of rain. One thing i've noticed. I've been using a sprinkler on a couple small plots and you have to run a sprinkler for several hours to get the dirt below the thatch good and wet. Even...

I appreciate the heads up, just bought 5 myself.

I would think a deer would not want to stick his head down into something to feed. Anybody noticed this? I thought it would block their eyesight.

All the of your weight is straight down, i have no problems with the cam buckles and been using them for over 15 years. I replace them every 2-3 years. I loosen them every year.

I spread my seed last sunday, a week ago. Grass was standing knee high. Sprayed on Monday. It rained on it Sunday, thats the reason i waited until Monday to spray. Grass will lay down by itself usually within 7-10 days. Yoder, i disagree about the sunlight issue. I actually think standing grass...

Ky1792, you should have sprayed first then threw seed and mowed, but it can still work with adequate moisture.

I'm sorry, i was responding to CNC's post on the spread, spray, walk method.

It would eliminate thatch being too thick where it windrows.

If i was using it to camp, i wouldn't want to draw deer to the area. No sense in spooking deer. I don't like planting anything for deer on my access roads, that i use to access my stands for the same reason.

Why do you think plumbers leave the crack of their arse showing? To keep the knats outta their face. I use a thermacell.

Crimson, what is the concensus on why he waited 2 weeks before mowing? To let rain push the seed to the soil?