Recent content by farmlegend

Got it, thanks. Gets confusing with red clover, which is usually treated as a biennial, though it can also be considered a short lived perennial. Red clover pops up pronto after planted.

Something to throw onto the pile here - I did more than the usual amount of frostseeding this past March. Amongst the seeds that have come up nicely are Boston Plantain, Endure Chicory, and clovers - medium red, alice white, balansa, and alsike. But I can't find me a yellow blossom sweetclover...

Thanks. I couldn't find any info about this on the Spypoint site. One of my somewhat unique situations is this - I run cameras roughly from September 1 through January. My fleet is between 12-14 cameras, mostly over food sources, and over the course of a season, I will look at good 50,000...

Accessing images through my computer, rather than a phone app, is precisely what I'm after in my next gen trailcam fleet. I couldn't find anything on that in the Spypoint website. Do you have a link or other reference?

Something to consider if the ground is wet where you're planning to plant - some common millets, like Proso, German, Brown Top are not great performers on wet ground, rated as no better than "fair" in wet dirt. Japanese Millet kicks but in wetter soils. No idea about Chiwappa.

A+. It only took me decades of playing whack-a-mole with food plot “weeds” to figure this out. And it was right there staring me in the face all along. Ask - what seemingly wants to grow in that spot? Why is it growing there, and not some place else? What are the plants trying to...

You can get differing opjnions on this, everyone has different dirt and conditions. I’ve been growing clover plots for 25 seasons now, and the most effective, foolproof method for me at my southern Michigan farm is to plant winter wheat, on the heavy side, around Labor Day. Follow up with...

The deer may never eat the millet, but it’s a great companion to clovers and whatever else. Builds OM, provides root exudates and encourages mychorrhizal fungi. And it can grow tall enough to provide some cover. It’s an excellent addition to my multi-species plots.

In addition, alsike clover is a good performer in wet conditions. I've frostseeded it directly onto ponded ice and had it come up nicely.

Given my failure to score some ag gypsum.....do you imagine calcitic lime to be of benefit for me? Much lower in magnesium than dolomitic lime, plenty of calcium, and I've got "room" to afford a bit of a pH boost. I believe this would be much easier to accomplish than gypsum procurement. My...

I'd call that pretty good numbers. You've done a nice job. I recently got my Haney results back from my what I call my "jumbo" food plots, which I broke into three zones based on my observations of plant performance after three years of cover cropping, comprising nine acres of ground. Not...

If it’s the same machine, I’m sticking with the OG Great Plains. Or the Land Pride, whichever dealer makes me the best deal.

Giving serious consideration to buying a pull behind no till drill(will likely go with GP or LP brands). Before I roll up my sleeves to do some exciting line-by-line research, I thought I'd throw this out there to see if anyone has trod this ground before. I'm sure I could ask my local...

Reed canary grass? Tough stuff. IME, on most sites that are dominated by RCG, nothing you can plant can compete with it. Its rhizomes and seeds go clear down to bedrock. Here's what I've seen guys I know personally have success with - spray your RCG with clethodim/crop oil. Hit it when it...

A critical vector to take into consideration with tree/shrub/foodplot plantings is soil type. Any summary planning recommendations are incomplete without addressing it. Having played around with this stuff for nearly 30 years, I have spent a long time playing whack-a-mole before figuring out...