We couldn't throw and mow this year. We had a really thick and healthy crop of wheat, oats and rye from last season. When it laid over around May, it really suppressed the weeds this summer. We didn't get the usual thick, 6' high weeds. The one thing that we did different was spread 33-0-0 in December. You could tell it made a difference but we decided not to do it this year. Nobody wants to do the extra work. When we sprayed late in the Summer it just flattened everything. There was plenty of debris on the ground but it was too low to mow. So, I made one pass with the disk and scratched the surface, seeded and then made one pass and scratched it in. It was still a big deviation from how we used to do it. I remember when we used the deep tillage approach and would disk until every single blade of grass and weed was completely turned under. One of the biggest things I've learned from throw and mow is that it's not necessary to turn everything under to get a food plot to grow. Since we've switched our tactics we have saved a lot of time and diesel fuel and not one deer has complained.
Adapt and improvise....Nice!
