Planting Beans

[roymunson]

I'm in NE Ohio, and am going to plant abut 2 acres of soybeans for a food plot for the fall. I want to wait a bit because we don't open until the last week in september, and i'd like to have green beans to hunt for a couple of weeks into october. Planning on waiting until End of may, 1st of june to plant them.

Is that the sweet spot to keep green plants into the season, yet still have standing beans with pods on them into january?

The spot I'm going to plant them doesn't have a high deer density, but i'll be able to draw deer from surrounding areas.

I have a pull behind aerator and plan on broadcasting and cultipacking them in.

Really just looking for a when you guys are planting beans as a deer crop only, no farming value

 

[Nova]

Generally beans turn brown by the amount of daylight not necessarily the time they have been growing. That being said your dates should be pretty good. I normally plant the last weekend in April or first weekend of May and mine are just starting to dry down by mid to end of September.

 

[j-bird]

Best way to have green soybeans to hunt over in October - is to plant them now and once they dry enough, run a disc over some of them and let mother nature do her thing! Timing on the discing is the trick because the seed needs to be mature, but you have to be ready to hunt as well, because the newly germinated beans will be found quickly and what the deer don't get the frost will. Your other option is to simply plant them like you would an annual fall plot.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

I planted mine (mdha beans) last year about the last week in may or first week in june. Mine were starting to yellow by the first week in sept and were nearly all yellow by our opener (about sept 15 give or take a day or two) I planted some last weekend that i am planning on throw and mow dbl tree cereal mix come sept 1 this year. If I plant another plot of beans this year it will be within the first ten days of june. It will depend on when the farmer renting the land plants his. I'd like to plant mine at least two weeks after his so when his are starting to yellow mine should be green for another two weeks. Of course this will all depend on what varieties of beans are being planted.

 

[swat1018]

Good Luck. 2 acres of beans don't get ankle high around me from pressure. If you've never tried before, I'd put up an e-fence, or at least milorganite.

 

[yoderjac]

If you want beans to be green in Oct, plant forage beans. They are late maturing but they don't have large pods. If you want RR, Eagle beans will fit the bill. If you want both pods and green late, plant half in Ag beans and half in Eagle beans. Planting later doesn't translate into turning brown later.

Thanks,

Jack