I think I'm going to just broadcast some Ic peas into my clover fields and let all the maturing wheat and rye just lay over it after the next big storm and not even bush hog them. I feel like that will help with weeds also. I don't expect them to make it past 16 inches before the deer wipe them out. jsut be added food in the fields
Yeah, if I thought I could get any growth out of them at all I�d do the same. They just wipe it out so fast here though that I think I�m completely skipping it this year. The only thing I would say to anyone thinking about doing something this summer like planting peas�..don�t take that $100 or $500 or whatever you're putting into it....spend it on peas, sunflowers, yada yada�.and then not buy the lime, the P, the K, the N, etc�..If you�re only gonna do one or the other then you�ll be a whole lot better off long term to take that $$$ and buy soil amendments. The native summer vegetation will thrive�.the deer will like it and browse in it but it�ll tolerate the grazing pressure much better. You'll accomplish more toward long term soil building goals as well. If you have the resources to add both peas and proper soil amendments then great, go for it. I just see a lot of folks going all in on the seed and skimping on the soil amendments. That�s backwards from how we should manage in my opinion. The soil is the foundation that the whole house is built on.
