What have you done to lighten the load at your camp?

[SD51555]

Looks to be about the same as mine Foggy....time will tell.

Now I wonder if I’m gonna lose some height on my sweet clover too.


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[rusty1034]

Agree - Adding clovers to the brassicas is definitely the way to go...then broadcasting rye over the brassicas/clover a month or so after planting - gives you great early spring forage after the snow melts and another cover crop instead of bare dirt the next summer....and not too much of a hassle to have living roots in the soil for an entire year...

Terminate your cover crop...
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Mix up your brassicas and a little clover seed...
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Calibrate the drill and load up the small box...
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Drill the seed (I don't use fertilizer anymore)...
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Watch the brassicas germinate and grow...
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A month or so after planting get your winter rye seed ready to go...
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I like to "spot" pails of rye seed around the plot so I don't have to backtrack far to fill my Earthway spreader...
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The following April 8th - Snow has melted - brassicas are long gone (see the radish holes?) - rye and clover are coming up to feed your deer and keep the soil covered...
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May 14th...
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June 16th - Another cover crop in preparation for your next planting - not really all that much of a hassle for a full year or more worth of forage...
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If I come back as a wild animal, I want to live at your place. Beautiful.

 

[Wild Thing]

If I come back as a wild animal, I want to live at your place. Beautiful.

LOL - Thanks rusty1034. I think you would be happy here, although if you are reincarnated as a big mature buck you may have to watch your P's & Q's....:)

 

[bueller]

I've basically eliminated planting food plots in the spring/summer. Poor quality sand and short growing season really handicaps what I can do. Lots more money in my pocket now and extra time for other chores. Late August planted winter rye and red clover feeds the deer and provides nutrition nearly year round with low cost and low maintenance. We had frost Sunday morning and it's damn dry already, yet my plots of full of 18" rye with 8" clover underneath.

 

[Foggy47]

I've basically eliminated planting food plots in the spring/summer. Poor quality sand and short growing season really handicaps what I can do. Lots more money in my pocket now and extra time for other chores. Late August planted winter rye and red clover feeds the deer and provides nutrition nearly year round with low cost and low maintenance. We had frost Sunday morning and it's damn dry already, yet my plots of full of 18" rye with 8" clover underneath.

^ Truth.