Planting milo

[270sniper]

How to go about planting milo with sugar beets, rutabaga and winter peas in NE PA. I plan to utilize my winter rye plots and the soil test from last yr is 6.5. I have an ATV disc, drag harrow and will be broadcasting the seed.

I ordered this seed from Northwoods & they didn't provide any instructions on what fertilizer to use. I contacted them & they suggested to watch their videos

 

[jsasker007]

Is it all in a mix or seperate? If it's not already mixed together I think I would keep the milo and peas away from the other two. jmo

 

[BC Buck]

Deer wipe out milow fields in two weeks with modest population.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

What is the goal of your food plot?

That's an odd/interesting combo. Sugar beets grow slow, so I don't think they will amount to anything as the other plants and weeds will take control early. Milo likes warm soil temps and peas generally like cooler soil temps (i'm not sure of that specific pea type though). Rutabaga is a new one to me as I don't know if they can grow rapidly like other brassicas or if they are slow growing. I'd expect some of them to show up in the mix.

I'd recommend spraying your winter rye to terminate it before it goes to seed. Then I would disk up your field, let the field sit for a couple weeks and spray again with round up a couple days before your planting date. Then broadcast seed and pull a drag over the planted field to lightly cover the seeds. You could add a little fertilizer when you disk up the field and then top dress with some fertilizer a month after the seeds sprout.

 

[Foggy47]

I'm pllanning to plant (with my grain drill) a diverse mix from Greencover called Milpa. It's got over 40 + varieties of garden veggies including beans, peas, squash, brassica, Mellons, and much more. I am adding Milo to this mix in an effort to get some vertical cover and perhaps give those vining crops a means to go vertical too. I plan to add about 3 lbs / acre of the milo. Also plan to drill some milo into my clover....to see if it will pop thru the clover to again get some vertical cover....and for the seed tops too.

The objective of the Milpa mix is to have something available throughout the year that is interesting to the deer. Not sure how everything will compete together......gonna find out. This is somewhat of a variation of the 3 sisters approach to growing things. The mix will be planted in a long strip(s) into a clover plot. (going to terminate the clover first via two burn downs with 24d and glyphosate.) Planning to add pel-lime and triple 19 fertilizer (or similar) during the course of the summer. I have no clue what this will yield....but plan to find out.

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[Turkey Creek]

Are you asking the fertility requirements of milo? You should be able to reach out to where you got your soil tested and ask for a fertilizer recommendation. Going forward if you specify the crop when you submit the sample they will usually provide a recommendation. Obviously on mixes it becomes a little more challenging, but if you have legumes in the mix you can decrease the N application and in that case I would go with the P, K recommendation for the neediest crop in the blend.

Depending on the data that you got from your soil test this site can help get you in the ballpark as well.

https://soilweb.spnl.msu.edu/fmi/webd?homeurl=https://www.canr.msu.edu/fertrec/#WebClient

 

[270sniper]

Is it all in a mix or seperate? If it's not already mixed together I think I would keep the milo and peas away from the other two. jmo

all the seed is separate that I went with on the advice of the owner of Northwoods.

 

[270sniper]

What is the goal of your food plot?

That's an odd/interesting combo. Sugar beets grow slow, so I don't think they will amount to anything as the other plants and weeds will take control early. Milo likes warm soil temps and peas generally like cooler soil temps (i'm not sure of that specific pea type though). Rutabaga is a new one to me as I don't know if they can grow rapidly like other brassicas or if they are slow growing. I'd expect some of them to show up in the mix.

I'd recommend spraying your winter rye to terminate it before it goes to seed. Then I would disk up your field, let the field sit for a couple weeks and spray again with round up a couple days before your planting date. Then broadcast seed and pull a drag over the planted field to lightly cover the seeds. You could add a little fertilizer when you disk up the field and then top dress with some fertilizer a month after the seeds sprout.

Regarding the weeds, I was advice to use Dual II magnum as a post emergent. Something else I never heard of along with rutabaga.

I watched some of Nothwoods video & they suggested to plant the rutabaga two weeks after planting the other seeds. For the fertilizer I am thinking I will put down 100 lbs. of urea, and maybe 150 lbs of 19-19-19.

 

[Telemark]

Rutabaga require a relatively long season. And they don't really benefit from tall companions like Milo blocking sunlight.

I would plant the sugar beets and rutabaga together and then plant the peas and Milo together, maybe as a border to the beets and rutabaga plot.

In the fall or late summer, when the beets and rutabaga are mature, you can overseed with winter rye to get a nice green cover on the ground.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

What are you looking for out of that food plot? Is it for deer, and early or late season?

 

[TreeDaddy]

I'm pllanning to plant (with my grain drill) a diverse mix from Greencover called Milpa. It's got over 40 + varieties of garden veggies including beans, peas, squash, brassica, Mellons, and much more. I am adding Milo to this mix in an effort to get some vertical cover and perhaps give those vining crops a means to go vertical too. I plan to add about 3 lbs / acre of the milo. Also plan to drill some milo into my clover....to see if it will pop thru the clover to again get some vertical cover....and for the seed tops too.

The objective of the Milpa mix is to have something available throughout the year that is interesting to the deer. Not sure how everything will compete together......gonna find out. This is somewhat of a variation of the 3 sisters approach to growing things. The mix will be planted in a long strip(s) into a clover plot. (going to terminate the clover first via two burn downs with 24d and glyphosate.) Planning to add pel-lime and triple 19 fertilizer (or similar) during the course of the summer. I have no clue what this will yield....but plan to find out.

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