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Fellers,Thanks for the encouragement to do another food plot thread, I enjoyed keeping up with it last year.
Hey " davedirt" I'm not familiar with the product you mentioned, sweet tea. Please tell about it, sounds interesting.
With all the rain and cold weather that swirled around us last week we only had 2 rains totaling 0.9". It dried up enough for me to fluff up the clover side of the food plot. I kept pulling the disk over it to allow it to dry enough to have a proper seed bed for the clover. Finally yesterday it was dry enough to plant. Spread 13-13-13 and disked it in, then rolled it with a cultipacker to tighten the soil to keep the seed from being buried too deep. Got my wife to drive the cart and I sat on the back and used a small hand spreader to put out the 5 pounds of Osceola Ladino clover. Some folks add a filler and mix it with the seed for better control. Builders sand, grits are some of the things I heard folks use as the seeds are so very small. There is supposed to be 800,000 seed to the pound. After spreading the seed, we rolled over the plot with the cultipacker dragging a chainlink drag to get a slight coverage.
We'll call this day 1 and maybe by next week we might see some clover sprouting. There is a picture of the cultipacker , what the planted plot looks like and a picture showing how big the clover seeds are beside a 1 inch straight pin. Treefarmer
And it starts...
Thanks treefarmer
Dam nice work! Abt how big are your plots?
sam03,
The clover part is around 250'X90' hair over 1/2 acre. There is room for an acre of corn that will be planted a little later.
Treefarmer
