My new summer favorite

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Had to try beans this year, spent a couple hundred on some beans, rented a drill, spent a weekend planting...complete failure. Well not necessarily true, they came up but the deer waged jihad on them in short order. As an insurance plan I broadcast joint vetch right before I drilled. So glad I did. Has come on strong lately and the deer are hammering it. Took a while to establish but once it did they can’t put a hurting on it cause the tonnage is too strong.
Found my new go to.

 

[Kooch]

Green is my favorite color.

 

[Bill]

Nice.

 

[davidhelmly]

That looks awesome, I planted some in a mix with alyceclover, WGF, sunn hemp and buckwheat on June 30th and it's doing much better than I expected for getting it in so late!

 

[WTNUT]

Why do you think your beans failed? Not enough to hold off competition from deer, or did the vetch drown them out? Or, planting depth?


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[Howboutthemdawgs]

Why do you think your beans failed? Not enough to hold off competition from deer, or did the vetch drown them out? Or, planting depth?


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I just didn’t have enough acreage to plant. I drilled them at what i felt was the proper depth, had moisture, just couldn’t keep up with the mouths. This pic does a good job illustrating what I was up against. In just a short time this doe whipped out those beans closets to the camera. The vetch was a savior coming on just recently after the beans were toast.

 

[SwampCat]

As a southern plotter - I have given up on spring or summer time planting for deer. Between floods, drought, deer, and hogs - my success rate with summer planting has lately been almost zero. My go to summer food plots are solely durana clover. The deer and hogs dont destroy it at germination. You dont have to get equipment in a wet field. It only as to be planted once and lasts for years. Hogs and deer will graze it heavily - but wont generally kill it out. Summer plantings can be a challenge.