S.T.Fanatic's Land Tour

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This picture taken July 6 shows the plot filled in with winter wheat. The dark brown heads are the Barley about 3 weeks past maturity and heavily thinned out by the deer.

Later in the summer this spot was a complete fail on my brassica planting because the cereal seed germinated and out competed everything. Which is the biggest reason I try to only plant awnless varieties.


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Pretty excited for this combo come late season. The bare spots will get filled in with PTT.


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This is a small patch of lambs quarter that I missed with the sprayer in the beet N beans plot. Just goes to show you that no mater what you have planted nature can provide something better at certain times of the season.


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And heavily browsed ragweed right on the edge of the beet N beans plot.


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[Bassattackr]

Re: Awnless Wheat - Assuming because they pick the heads clean?

Great pics!

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Re: Awnless Wheat - Assuming because they pick the heads clean?

Great pics!

Correct


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I didn't get pictures because it was to dark. I was down to my beet and bean plot last night. It looks as if my beets have doubled in size in the last two weeks. The rain we have gotten the past two weeks has been a God send.

 

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June 28


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July 9


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July 21


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[Bill]

Toss in some brassicas then come back with rye. That field will be green for a long time.

 

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My buckwheat is spotty from all of the competition but it is getting eaten.


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Toss in some brassicas then come back with rye. That field will be green for a long time.

Guess what I did this evening?


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This is one of those plots that I mentioned over seeding with turnips in another post this morning. I also over seed all of my soybean plots with turnips.

 

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7-28-21

The beans are finally starting to get ahead of the deer. The sugar beats are coming along nicely and will have no problem reaching football size by the time the ground freezes. The PTT i over seeded on the last trip down have germinated and are about 1/2 inch tall. I also noticed a couple of PTT that must have germinated from last years planting that went to seed and are about the size of golf balls. There must have been enough weed cover that when I sprayed the small plants were missed. I also spent about half an hour pulling some RRPW. I think I pretty much have most of it pulled now.


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quick pic of my PTT starting to fill in some of the bare spots of my beets n beans plot.


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I was back up on the top farm finishing up my brassica plantings. Figured I post another picture of the farm since most of the stuff I post on here is to the valley property. There is a small opening in the woods on the N.W. part of the property that my uncle Ben likes to hunt. I planted a nice mix of about 90/10 radishes to PTT. It's a nice travel route with bedding and water on the south end. It's a reel nice setup. I'll post another pic with it zoomed in a bit.

 

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Here is a zoomed in picture of the area discussed above. The plot is now in the upper center of the photo. I'm thinking that come Labor Day weekend I'll give it a shot of AMS and an over seeding of rye with a chicory/clover mix to turn this one into a perennial plot. I haven't gotten around to It yet but the pond in the lower center of the pic (the one on the left is just across our line on the neighbors) will also at some point be getting a perennial plot established around it. There is a really nice "shoot" running to the S.W. that the deer travel up and down that could use some food. It's also a neat spot. Because of the terrain and crops it is completely hidden from the road. And Uncle Ben also has a stand in the patch of trees just South of the pond. He usually shoots a doe early season out of that spot with his crossgun.

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

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Saturday afternoon I planted a B.O.B. blend of clover and chicory in the opening talked about above. I went with whitetail institutes Fusion. Does anybody have any experience with this blend? I'm guessing it will do great.

On a side note about this plot. The oats that were standing are germinating well. I'm guessing that the brassica I planted may have a hard time gathering enough resources to keep up with them. Getting rain showers here this morning so that's nice.

 

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Back to The Valley:

Starting off with another observation. We have discussed the battle with pig weed on here recently. I was down to my "diversity" plot a month or two ago to spray some burdock that I didn't want to go to seed. I didn't have all that much spray with me so I concentrated on a couple smaller patches of it and left the individual plants. I killed the hell out of the patches that were growing and upon return yesterday take one guess what took the place of them? Pig weed. I'm not sure if there is some sort of connection between pig weed and glyphosate or if it is just the fact that the soil was no longer covered and the dormant seed took advantage of it.

We have rain in the forecast (raining as I type) so I planted my cereal mix. I put down 150# of awnless winter barley, aprox. 20# of Icicle winter peas on the western side of it that I had left over from last year, 50# of Austrian winter peas on the remaining portion of the plot, and aprox. 10# of sunflower. The plot is much less diverse this go around but hey that's the way she goes.

I seeded, crimped, and sprayed. 18K+ steps later my 2021 food plots are IN !! I am hoping for a thick mat of winter barley come spring to seed buckwheat into and just crimp with no spraying. Time will tell.