Hitting the brassicas early.
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Yep, I saw the same thing today with radishes.
Bill
Administrator
I'll tell you I've never had good luck with turnips and Rape seed. Last year was my first decent crop after a few attempts. I had given up for a while.
After what I whitnessed this year I'll be prepping some plots all summer with weed control and actually fertilizing next season.
I always read they were good and saw what people posted but I never had good luck with tubers and just didn't think they got used that much around me. WRONG!
After what I whitnessed this year I'll be prepping some plots all summer with weed control and actually fertilizing next season.
I always read they were good and saw what people posted but I never had good luck with tubers and just didn't think they got used that much around me. WRONG!
scott44
5 year old buck +
I've never had any problems with the deer using them if I get them in they'll get eaten. I usually shoot for first part of July to get them in.
Da U.P. 'eh
5 year old buck +
Peeps, I'm not far from you (western Menominee Co. Mich.) I've been mixing in rape with my early August planting of rye with good success. With the good rains we got in early Aug. all my plots are doing very well. by far the best we have ever had. and the deer are hitting them a lot but the plots at least this year are thick and lush and are staying ahead of the deer.
swat1018
5 year old buck +
If nothing else, throw some in with the rye.
westonwhitetail
5 year old buck +
I watched a doe and a couple small bucks do the same thing in Scott's picture above, over and over the other night. They ripped em out and ate the entire thing, bulb first! Pretty cool to watch.
j-bird
Moderator
You guys are funny.....Deer don't eat turnips! I plant them every year.....I think the rabbits get a few but mine just stink and and turn to mush in the spring some even bolt and produce seed, but in the end they just become organic matter. Deer eating turnips......that's a good one!!!!
j-bird
Moderator
It's so funny how you all are in on this gag.....it's actually pretty impressive. I can't imagine the PM's it took to get you all on the same page and to photoshop and stage pictures and the like to pull this off. I'm sure it's rather convincing to someone one a little more "green". Good show every body......good show!!!!
Ok - enough fun..... it's funny how regional some deer activity is. I live in heavy farm country and yes the deer will eat anything when they are hungry enough. Thing is that in my area between the corn and beans and cover plots of wheat and turnips and radish in the ag fields along with the natural foods and then my plots.....turnips and radish are pretty low on the preference list around here. Real low in fact. I bet 95% of my turnips will end up with brown wilted leaves and be mush come spring. I find some evidence once in a while of a curious deer that will take a nibble here and there, but for the most part.....they are nothing more than a cheap insurance from a food source perspective and soil builder for me.
Ok - enough fun..... it's funny how regional some deer activity is. I live in heavy farm country and yes the deer will eat anything when they are hungry enough. Thing is that in my area between the corn and beans and cover plots of wheat and turnips and radish in the ag fields along with the natural foods and then my plots.....turnips and radish are pretty low on the preference list around here. Real low in fact. I bet 95% of my turnips will end up with brown wilted leaves and be mush come spring. I find some evidence once in a while of a curious deer that will take a nibble here and there, but for the most part.....they are nothing more than a cheap insurance from a food source perspective and soil builder for me.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
It's so funny how you all are in on this gag.....it's actually pretty impressive. I can't imagine the PM's it took to get you all on the same page and to photoshop and stage pictures and the like to pull this off. I'm sure it's rather convincing to someone one a little more "green". Good show every body......good show!!!!
Ok - enough fun..... it's funny how regional some deer activity is. I live in heavy farm country and yes the deer will eat anything when they are hungry enough. Thing is that in my area between the corn and beans and cover plots of wheat and turnips and radish in the ag fields along with the natural foods and then my plots.....turnips and radish are pretty low on the preference list around here. Real low in fact. I bet 95% of my turnips will end up with brown wilted leaves and be mush come spring. I find some evidence once in a while of a curious deer that will take a nibble here and there, but for the most part.....they are nothing more than a cheap insurance from a food source perspective and soil builder for me.
Pretty much the same story for me. On the upside, when I plant soybeans the spring after a brassica plot they flourish and weeds are less of an issue.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
The deer are having parties in our brassicas at night. The radishes are hit the hardest, with turnips and rape not far behind. Tracks are everywhere in that plot !!
The first year or 2 we planted brassicas, deer didn't pay much attention to them. They had never been planted there before. Now they know what they are, and are living large on them.
The first year or 2 we planted brassicas, deer didn't pay much attention to them. They had never been planted there before. Now they know what they are, and are living large on them.
SWIFFY
5 year old buck +
It's so funny how you all are in on this gag.....it's actually pretty impressive. I can't imagine the PM's it took to get you all on the same page and to photoshop and stage pictures and the like to pull this off. I'm sure it's rather convincing to someone one a little more "green". Good show every body......good show!!!!
Ok - enough fun..... it's funny how regional some deer activity is. I live in heavy farm country and yes the deer will eat anything when they are hungry enough. Thing is that in my area between the corn and beans and cover plots of wheat and turnips and radish in the ag fields along with the natural foods and then my plots.....turnips and radish are pretty low on the preference list around here. Real low in fact. I bet 95% of my turnips will end up with brown wilted leaves and be mush come spring. I find some evidence once in a while of a curious deer that will take a nibble here and there, but for the most part.....they are nothing more than a cheap insurance from a food source perspective and soil builder for me.
Same with me J-bird! They like my radishes more and more every year. The rape has been good in the winter about 1 out of 5 years. Turnips... ya right. Cheap, easy OM is about all theyre good for here!
