If you have any hogs around I'd save your money.If not I wouldn't plant till Sept. Nothing beats a pile of corn.
Yea if you have tons or hogs they are gonna root up and tear up whatever you plant as soon as it sprouts. stupid :censored ers 😆
You should be good then... :toast
We always plant rye, corn, and soybeans all just mixed together. Our food plot is super small and the hogs tear it up. the only thing they dont tear up is the rye grass, that stuff was still growing into december. We dont till the dirt either, the hogs do it for us :rockon
i dont know anything else.. 😆 :toast
Iron clay peas are one of your best bets. They don't need a lot of soil prep, such as fertilizer and lime. But you do need to disc the ground up. If you want to go the fertilizer/lime route, them Rackmaster spring/summer mix is one of my all time favorites. But you definitely gonna need a lot of lime around pine tree ground to grow it.
Only other problem with ICP, is once they get about 1/2"-1" high, the deer mow them down and they never get a chance to really grow. That is the reason I like the Rackmaster. It has sorgum in it, so it gives the ICP something to grow on.
Rye grass is something you want to save for your winter food plot. Don't use the rye from Home depot. Deer wont eat it very well. Get the Abrizzi rye from a feed store. It is a pasture rye. I overseeded my small plots last year and the deer kept it nipped down at ground level the whole winter
Aeschynomene is very good, but the first frost kills it back. Cool thing about it is it will regrow naturally year after year. So if you keep a lease and have the same stands it may be something to look into.
One thing you can try since you live close to your lease. As soon as your peas start breaking ground, go and put out milorganite. It is made from human waste so it will repel the deer from it and give it time to grow a bit. Also, go by a feed store and get some sorgum seed to mix in with the peas. Like I said it gives the peas something to climb
