Food Plots My BEST food plot this year

[megalomaniac]

Here she is in all her glory!

Radishes and turnips survived, deer ate and drought killed all the rye and wheat. Drought killed the clover. Drilled end of Sept in bone dry soil, got .5in rain the next day, 4in 2w later from Helene. None since.

Deer will decimate the radishes mid Nov, and it will be bare dirt by Dec.

This year sucks.

 

[BSK]

Very sad.

 

[tellico4x4]

Have some better and have some worse. Established clover is still looking okay. Guess it's getting enough moisture from the dew. Part of annuals got whacked by worms & drought. No rain since Helene for us either.

Intend on overseeding rye if we get rain next month.

 

[lol]

That's unfortunate. Its gonna be a rough winter for a lot of wildlife if we don't get some rain.

 

[RS]

They look a lot better than mine. I had the best plots ever after getting the rain from the two hurricanes, then the army worms took them all out. I disked everything up two weekends ago, and now I have the wheat and winter rye ready to go…just waiting on rain. With no rain in sight, it doesn't look like I'm going to have much at all this year.

I'm just glad I didn't spread fertilizer before the army worms hit, because I may not waste my money on it this year if I don't get the plots planted within the next few weeks.

 

[BSK]

The truly sad part is, the Climate Center is predicting drought conditions will continue in TN through January.

 

[deerhunter10]

That's rough. Years like this sure suck all the time money and work sure don't seem worth it some years.

 

[megalomaniac]

I've got the water when noone around does... I'll kill the deer.

What I'm most pissed off about is the fact I've got way too much bare dirt which is going to grow weeds and really reduce the quality of my next summers plots.

$1800 in seed so far... and I'm probably going to throw a hail mary with broadcasting rye if we get a rain beginning of November. Otherwise... F' it.