Speaking of jungles……I'd be happy if my whole field eventually looks like this during the summer. The woodline used to be about where Shelby is standing but I’ve pushed it back and created a buffer of natural veg……That’s just a salad bar mix of broadleaf species…ragweed, pokeweed, blackberry, dewberry, smilax, lambsquarter, etc…etc……It’s taken awhile for these plants to come back into my field during the summer instead of just growing crabgrass. I think the biggest reasons have to do with organic matter and the microbial community. Imagine if we let the buffer go ahead and jump early in the summer but we use the suppression power of the cereal rye to delay the rest of the field until later on into the summer…keeping the deer with young veg to eat for a pretty prolonged period.