Looks like the deer didn't wait and are nipping the cotyledon's off. Hit it with some milorganite to keep them away
Iluv2hunt, Had to look up milorganite to see what it is. Interesting "stuff". Since this is a summer food plot in competition with several hundred acres of peanuts, I'm not too concerned about them totally wiping out the small plot. Our experience has been that deer will eat on the iron and clays, especially the dicotyledon stage, then they seem to leave them alone till the vines are well established and then work on them as the peas are maturing. The big issue is the pea patch at the house. The deer don't hardly mess with those peas until the night before you plan to pick! We found a recipe for a repellant that actually works. It's a concoction of water, milk, eggs, dish washing soap, and cooking oil. Mix the ingredients with a blender and then pour it into a small pump-up sprayer and coat the vegetables or even flowers you don't want Bambi to enjoy. We saved a patch of cushaw punkin's using this mess a couple years ago. It's non-toxic and fairly cheap to produce and seems only to put a bad taste in the deers mouth or an odor they can't stand? Missed putting it out by one night last year, and the deer ate about 25% of a patch of Zipper Creams. Momma was upset to say the least!! A few years back, a neighbor had 7 acres of several varieties of peas ready for market and he was wiped out in 2 or 3 nights. They walked up and down the rows and left about a 1" stub of every pea they could find. An amazing sight, hard to believe had I not seen it. Treefarmer
Walked out last night to clean some more for my food plot and found something interesting. There are large selection that looks like it caught on fire but only the green grass was effected or maybe like someone sprayed pesticides or something. I'm not really worried abt the grass browning out but i would like to know why. I dont want it to effect the stuff i plant. Any ideas?
Nice green area
Browned out areas
dept of agg would test soil free in N.Y., try calling youre local office & they will tell you how to collect samples. can't imagine why anyone would go to the trouble of spraying PART of your garden with killer. is it possible you over fertalized that part and burned it? if all that comes up youre gonna be able to feed an army, good luck.
my bush beans are app 5-6" long. when do you guys pick them?
