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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Congrats on your baby son! 2 partners in crime - together w/ Dad......... all up to no good........... Mom may have gray hair a little EARLIER than expected ??? !!! ;):D
bueller
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I haven't had the opportunity to get back up to the property since mid august but I just got a report from pops who snuck up for a day or two. Nearly all the greens in my brassica plot featured in this thread have now been consumed :eek:. They are already starting to sample the bulbs and I'm told there is lots of them and some are quite large :). I hope to get up there within the next couple weeks and will get some photos when I do.
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dipper
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Congrats on your baby. Next time add rye and oats to your brassicas, it will handle browse much better.
bueller
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On normal years I overseed rye into the brassicas around labor day. With everything going on this year I didn't have the opportunity to do so. The bulbs will take the plot into the winter. I'm going to miss the early spring green the rye provides.
bueller
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Headed up to the property for the time since mid-August this weekend. The suspense is killing me! Can't wait to see how my brassica plot ended up and to check all the pics and videos on the trail cams. Unfortunately I will not be hunting at all as we are closing on our new place Friday so we will be cleaning and moving in all weekend. Hunting at Pop's place should see even more improvement this year, and in the future, as a majority of our year round activities, and our gun season deer camp, will now be happening at the new place.
scott44
5 year old buck +
Good luck with the move and congrats on the new place!
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
Dipper ... do you add the rye & oats the same time you plant the brassica or later?
bueller
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Thank you and thank you! All went well with the closing and we spent the weekend cleaning and moving in furniture. Pop's place has without a doubt benefited from the lack of human activity. We have a couple real nice bucks hanging around which is against the norm of usually just seeing them in October and November. No bow hunting this year but in years to come, heck yea. We plan to hunt the gun opener over there so hopefully we can keep them around until then.
As far as the new place....It looks to be pretty darn good right now with lots of potential. A centralized food plot will be planted in the spring which by all indications will be a game changer here. I didn't snap any pics yet. Maybe in a couple weeks or during deer season I will. But for sure next spring I will be documented the before and after of this journey. Best part is no more living out of a travel trailer with a family of 4 plus guests. Now we can get up and move around without tripping over everything. And we have a good sized garage and storage shed for all the toys!!!
bueller
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Here is a pic I took when I walked the new place back in August. This is a power line right away that pretty much runs through the center of the property. For a guy like me with limited equipment and time this SCREAMS foodplot. No trees to cut, brush to clear, stumps to deal with, no nothing!!! When planted next spring this will become a centralized 3/4 acre foodplot. Nasty thick stuff to the west (right side of photo) and mixed age woods to the east (left side).
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dipper
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Sure,plant them all the same time to keep it simple. You can plant brassicas a little earlier if your adventurous
bueller
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No pics to share as I was too busy doing other crap this weekend so I didn't have time to be act like a chinese tourist in Chicago. The deer have pretty much cleaned up all my brassica greens and they are about 1/3rd of the way through the bulbs. I should have activity on this plot through the gun season and into early winter. They've been browsing on it since July, planted late June :D.
Cameras show a good number of doe, fawns, small bucks, and a couple of nice bucks. The nice ones are still moving in the middle of the night. The smaller bucks are on their feet during the day. Hopefully we reap the rewards of the lack of human activity over the next couple weeks (no bow hunting this year) during the gun season.
Also pulled a card for the first time from a camera on the new place, and the first video was a buck!!! A legal one too, ONE of his spikes exceeds 3" :p. Gotta love it.
Cameras show a good number of doe, fawns, small bucks, and a couple of nice bucks. The nice ones are still moving in the middle of the night. The smaller bucks are on their feet during the day. Hopefully we reap the rewards of the lack of human activity over the next couple weeks (no bow hunting this year) during the gun season.
Also pulled a card for the first time from a camera on the new place, and the first video was a buck!!! A legal one too, ONE of his spikes exceeds 3" :p. Gotta love it.
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wiscwhip
5 year old buck +
Just a suggestion from the peanut gallery, if you are going to food plot this area. First thing I would do after deer season is get some lime down over the whole area, I will guarantee that it will need a bunch. The sooner you can start to alter that ph the better off you will be. I know it doesn't seem like the time of year to be thinking of that stuff, but do your plot a favor and get a jump start on it. Also, if you can find any sources of organic fertilizer like compost, poultry litter, sawdust, or manure don't be afraid to get as much of that on as you can as well. I don't know if you know Craig Saxe, but he is the UW-AG Extension agent for Juneau Co. and is usually very helpful in sourcing this kind of thing. I just started to get to know him and deal with him right before my dad sold his place. Seemed like an ok guy the couple times I talked with him.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
You're right Wiscwhip. ^^^^^ We did that at my camp when snow was still 10" deep in February. We used the pelletized type and broadcast it all over the snow. It wasn't hard to see where we had hit & where we had to go yet. When the snow melted down it took the lime right into the ground with it. A sour plot sweetened up enough to plant clover & chicory and it took right off. A local farmer tipped us off on that trick.
