Great video George. Thanks for all the great info. I will be planting my first food plots/clover this week and will be using your advice. I've got about 4 acres to plant. Thanks again.
I'm not so sure about using a disc on clover plots to control weeds...Yes a certain percentage will come back but you've also killed an equal percentage...Mowing ,frost seeding ,and if you can use chemicals,Slay and Arrest max at the appropriate times of the year. I could see doing a disc and reseed process ,but otherwise that's pretty crazy.
Thanks for watching. Let me know what tips you have planting brassicas? Most people over seed them, and it can be tricky the first few times planting them. What type of a mix do you use for your fall food plots? How do the deer like your brassica mix? Do they hammer them right away, or do they wait until the cold weather sets in?
Hi Nathan. That is an old Craftsman lawn spreader we found on Craigslist a few years ago. It holds about 200 lbs. Plastic hopper, pneumatic tires. Works good because the wheel base is wide enough to keep from tipping.
Great video George! From the video, it appears you cultipacked the plot prior to seeding, then cultipacked the soil a second time after seeding. Is that what you did? If so, Next question, why did you do that? One final thing.......it looks like your tractor has all it wants pulling that big spreader behind it. Lol. My turnips appear to have come up in two phases, the ones that had good seed to soil contact, I presume, are probably an inch high now after 2 weeks. I noticed today, however, I have a bunch of new turnips starting to pop up. I found that interesting.
It is small seed and the cultipacking helps keep them from being too deep in the ground. It also makes "rows" that the seeds can lay in and retain water. The second cultipacking helps the little seeds get good seed to soil contact.
Exactly Sam. If I would have spread the seed right after disking, many would have been planted too deep. When I cultipacked the field I went one direction to smooth it out, and then went the other direction to pack the seed.
Use to work for farmer who had 16 foot cultimulcher. Going both ways really flattened the field for hay. I got a 12 for deer plots. Works great leveling and rolling rocks under but hard to get through woods rds.
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Thanks George good info
I have the same Dunham double row cultipacker
Great video George. Thanks for all the great info. I will be planting my first food plots/clover this week and will be using your advice. I've got about 4 acres to plant. Thanks again.
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nice video's, hope you do a follow up to show the results....We are now living vicariously through you. Happy hunting.
Stay tuned, I'm going to have a results video coming up in a few days.
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Good info. Thanks.
I'm not so sure about using a disc on clover plots to control weeds...Yes a certain percentage will come back but you've also killed an equal percentage...Mowing ,frost seeding ,and if you can use chemicals,Slay and Arrest max at the appropriate times of the year. I could see doing a disc and reseed process ,but otherwise that's pretty crazy.
If memory serves me right, you don't need nitrogen in an established clover plot. You're just feeding the weeds.
Thanks for watching. Let me know what tips you have planting brassicas? Most people over seed them, and it can be tricky the first few times planting them. What type of a mix do you use for your fall food plots? How do the deer like your brassica mix? Do they hammer them right away, or do they wait until the cold weather sets in?
What type of spreader is that?
Hi Nathan. That is an old Craftsman lawn spreader we found on Craigslist a few years ago. It holds about 200 lbs. Plastic hopper, pneumatic tires. Works good because the wheel base is wide enough to keep from tipping.
Great video George! From the video, it appears you cultipacked the plot prior to seeding, then cultipacked the soil a second time after seeding. Is that what you did? If so, Next question, why did you do that? One final thing.......it looks like your tractor has all it wants pulling that big spreader behind it. Lol. My turnips appear to have come up in two phases, the ones that had good seed to soil contact, I presume, are probably an inch high now after 2 weeks. I noticed today, however, I have a bunch of new turnips starting to pop up. I found that interesting.
It is small seed and the cultipacking helps keep them from being too deep in the ground. It also makes "rows" that the seeds can lay in and retain water. The second cultipacking helps the little seeds get good seed to soil contact.
Exactly Sam. If I would have spread the seed right after disking, many would have been planted too deep. When I cultipacked the field I went one direction to smooth it out, and then went the other direction to pack the seed.
Use to work for farmer who had 16 foot cultimulcher. Going both ways really flattened the field for hay.
I got a 12 for deer plots. Works great leveling and rolling rocks under but hard to get through woods rds.