Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Quality Deer Management Throw n Mow Q&A

Must be nice to have dry ground this time of year.

My field is on a rise with a low drainage on either side. It has it's advantages an disadvantages. There's never really a time when I can't access it to do what I want to but on the flip side, it also gets dry a lot quicker than I'd like sometimes as well.

No-till maters continued���You can do a bigger traditional looking garden using these same methods. I have to grow anything I do behind a fence due to the deer. It would just require that this coming fall you prep for it by over seeding a cover crop of cereal rye into your garden. Once you press down the rye in the spring, a weedeater turned up sideways can be used to cut out rows. Same way you would use a weedeater to edge a sidewalk.

A tomato stalk will make new roots if you cover the stem with dirt. I wish I had some chicken litter to mix in with this dirt I�m adding.

You'd need a 4wd 4-wheeler to drive across ours, until about July during a normal year. I guess banking enough tonnage on small acreage to last until Spring green up is my technique like the throw and mow is a technique you use. However, it would be alot easier if I had your large acreage and dry ground.

Why are you pruning the lower limbs? Never mind, i posted before reading your last post. DUH

I got my soil samples back on Friday.

Those soil tests look pretty good 270....A little bit of this and a little bit of that and you'll be good to go.

Is this White Dutch? It grows all over the place and seems to tolerate mowing very well. My White Dutch doesn't like being this short.

Not 100% sure but it very likely is....I think that's what you mostly see growing in yards or around ball fields, etc....It's a short clover and doesn't produce as much forage as some other varieties from what I've read.

I like it mixed in the yard. Adds N and the deer and rabbits like it.

Rye grain is pretty brown now and the crimson clover blooms are fading. If I were going to plant a summer plot then this would be the front end of my planting window for doing so.

Crimson, i've decided to mulch my garden with newspapers instead of hardwood mulch. I can get all the newspapers i want from the local office. Keeps weeds at bay, feeds worms, holds moisture, and breaks down into the soil. Surprisingly, my garden spot has a fair amount of clay. I think i'll plant some radish,ptt and rye come fall, instead of just ptt.

That�s a good idea. It makes a lot of sense to cover the bare soil.

I was doing some bushhogging and couldn�t resist making one pass over the rye. It sure does process a lot easier after its brown. I think I'm going to throw some millet out and mow the rest in a week or so just in case I want to shoot some doves this fall.

Dr. Grant Woods with some interesting info. It's not exactly throw and mow per se, but he eschews the benefits of not disking in one of the videos in the link below.
http://m.growingdeer.tv/clips/

Same principles except for no til planter.

And the herbicide.

No, if you've read CNC's numerous posts on throw and mow, that program calls for regular use of herbicide.

I haven't used any herbicide in a couple years now but it doesn't have to be done that way. If you need to spray some gly then it wouldn't be the end of the world.