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Damn it’s dry...
#2912041
09/24/19 10:43 PM
09/24/19 10:43 PM
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Joined: May 2002
Posts: 8,030 Central Alabama
muzziehead
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Been preparing seed beds on our plots the past two days. Ground is hard as concrete. Had to break it with standard disc then hit with rotary tiller. Not a drop of moisture in the soil. Planning to put fertilizer and seed in the ground on Thursday and Friday and praying we get that forecasted rain within the next week or so. I felt Like that kid from Charlie Brown that always had a dust cloud following him around.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912065
09/25/19 05:56 AM
09/25/19 05:56 AM
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Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 10,380 northport
deadeye48
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And no reasonable chance or rain for the next seven days
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself The older I get the better I used to be
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912107
09/25/19 07:24 AM
09/25/19 07:24 AM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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N. Bama
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Not to mention any nitrogen in fertilizer will be gone within 14 days
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912110
09/25/19 07:29 AM
09/25/19 07:29 AM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 11,651 Longwood, FL
jlbuc10
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Been preparing seed beds on our plots the past two days. Ground is hard as concrete. Had to break it with standard disc then hit with rotary tiller. Not a drop of moisture in the soil. Planning to put fertilizer and seed in the ground on Thursday and Friday and praying we get that forecasted rain within the next week or so. I felt Like that kid from Charlie Brown that always had a dust cloud following him around. We’re doing the same and just hoping. We don’t have the option of waiting for forecasted rain. Everyone lives 9 hours away except for me, and I can’t just drop everything in my life and plant 25 acres by myself when rain is predicted. We plant the last weekend in September or first weekend in October every year. We’ve never had a significant failure. Heck I’m seeing some dove fields germinate that were top sewed in dust and haven’t had rain.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: 257wbymag]
#2912153
09/25/19 08:32 AM
09/25/19 08:32 AM
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Posts: 21,776 USA
Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Not to mention any nitrogen in fertilizer will be gone within 14 days That's the main reason all my fertilizer and seed is still in the barn. It's not going to rain for a loooong time yet, it appears.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912176
09/25/19 08:59 AM
09/25/19 08:59 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,911 huntin the big lease
Turkeymaster
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come on now you know better than to try and plant in this type situation, youre just going to waste your money
"All is fair in love, War and Turkey Hunting"
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912281
09/25/19 11:26 AM
09/25/19 11:26 AM
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Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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Hell I put lime out 2 weeks ago and I believe it all blowed away
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912318
09/25/19 12:07 PM
09/25/19 12:07 PM
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AU338MAG
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Unfortunately, the guys in our club want to plant this weekend and can't convince them we need to wait until mid October.
Oh well...
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: Joe4majors]
#2912486
09/25/19 04:49 PM
09/25/19 04:49 PM
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Posts: 3,439 Sumter County
sumpter_al
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I would think a lot of the seed might be ok if covered. My fear would be one shower comes along, causes germination, then the tender little sprout wilts and dies with the heat and no rain for a couple weeks. This Or you waste the fertilizer money. You need to wait.
I love my country, but don't trust my government.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912515
09/25/19 05:28 PM
09/25/19 05:28 PM
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Posts: 8,747 bessemer, al
hunterturf
14 point
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Why would the fertilizer money be wasted??
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912547
09/25/19 06:17 PM
09/25/19 06:17 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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P&K fertilizer would be ok to put out now. Just not N
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912805
09/25/19 10:34 PM
09/25/19 10:34 PM
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Posts: 8,030 Central Alabama
muzziehead
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Seed will be fine. I overseed anyway. We will not fertilize until we know for certain rain is coming. My concern is what someone else mentioned and that is we get two or three days of rain then nothing for else for October. It would be a $4,000 gamble at this point but we haven’t lost in the past years, but I know It is a possibility. There was zero moisture in any of our plots.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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