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Swat, I did this experiment the old fashioned way. The seed Phil gave me was from welter seed co and is not round up ready. I planted in rows so that I could easily weed in between with a stirrup hoe This tool works great, but obviously only for small areas. Shears weeds below the surface...

Phil, Thanks again for the sugarbeet seed! This is my first time planting them and I'm very hopeful late season will be when they become irresistible. I used an inexpensive netting fence by deer-x, which was around $15 For a 100'x7'. I put up 3 rolls to cover all sugarbeets and cylindra...

MA VT, Good luck if you attempt next year. My hope is that it's worth the effort. Time will tell. JFK, Yes, funny you ask. My friend and I have been commenting all summer on how it's been great conditions for sugarbeets with all the rain we've had.

Yes, this plot is in Vermont. It's very close to my house, hence the many visits. Great for testing. If there is any substantial root mass, I want to know how long it will last once I open up the fence. If it was 1 foot spacing, that would be about 550 sugarbeets. At 2-5 lbs a piece, I'm...

8/20/17 - The overall plot is taking shape. I also planted the brassica mix a little too heavy in my opinion. I measured seed at 5lbs/acre, but had great germination and it was too much. Next time I plant brassica in this plot it will be at a lesser rate. I wonder what kind of root mass I'll...

7/23/17 - They are really starting to canopy and cover the ground and the roots are about 1/2" dia. Up to this point I did very little weeding as it was realatively weed free. 8/9/17 - Canopy has completely taken over and they are putting on root mass. Some roots about 1 to 1-1/4" dia...

6/27/17 - I gave a shot of Urea 7/4/17 They responded to urea pretty well 7/7/17 - I tilled in the soybeans and winter rye to give time to break down 7/12/17 - Uh oh....deer are mad there are no more soybeans and are breeching my poor man's fence. Time to reinforce. 7/17/17 -...

Fellow food plot buddy of mine gave me some approx 4-5 yr old sugar beet seed from Welter Seed Co. I did a germination test and see if they were viable. Turns out I got about 60% germination, so I gave them a try in a small experiment. One of my 3 plots is a 1/3 acre plot that has been...

Good call. I will do that, thank you. Does the pelletized lime come either way I wonder?

Here are my Soil Sample results from (2) plots that I have here in VT. I blacked out some of the personal info that is not needed. It is pretty interesting. There are 2 samples from my MG plot, which is MG1 and MG2. MG1 (approximately 1/6 acre) is my first ever plot that I planted. Each...

I'm very sorry to hear that Oscar. I feel your pain. Do you have close up pics of the leaves? My "good" brassica (Turnip, Radish & Rape) planted Mid July (Vermont), was beautiful last week and this weekend it is stricken by this: What is strange is we have had record drought here in our...

Thanks for the reply Spartacus and B&B. I am supposed to have the soil tests back today, so I'll at least wait to see what is recommended before I start throwing lime. Agreed it would have been good before the good soaker we received this weekend. I had another problem in my "good" brassica...

I 100% agree with you all about the ph. This will be an interesting experiment. I limed my other plot which is awesome, but opted not to do this one before planting. Sometimes you have to learn by doing, in order to believe what your told to do will work :) I will for sure amend the ph...

Ha! I don't care what the WR looks like, so long as the deer like it! It's been so dry here that I figured conditions were what killed the barsicca rape. You think it's lack of Nitrogen? I only had a couple bags of 19-19-19, but I figured that would have at least gotten the plants out of the...

Buck, Even if the urea granules are touching the WR seed? That won't hurt the seed from germinating?