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Beautiful fields !

Thanks!

My mother grows some of the pretties flower and vegetable gardens you�ve ever seen. It�s literally magazine worthy type stuff. One of the biggest keys to her successful gardens is that she basically builds her own soil in every spot where she plants. She�s living on top of a rock in Mentone these days but still has immaculate looking flowers and vegetables growing all over the place because she builds her own soil. One of the big ingredients in her soil mix has all ways been our left over vegetable scraps. Whether it was potato peels, lettuce leaves, tomatos that may have been over ripe, onion peels, egg shells, etc, etc, etc��whatever.

Well we can�t change acres of food plots by saving our table scraps��but we can accomplish the same principles by growing our vegetable scraps on the spot by the ton���There are thousands of these turnips acroos the field of all sizes. That�s a lot of vegetable scraps��.



Look at the area where I pulled them up��




Look at the m. fungi all around the root of this plant�..Pretty neat!

good stuff

I don't have pics, but out of curiosity, I did not fertilize one of my fields. You can definitely tell which one. Also, the deer are not hitting it as hard. I did see a little 4pt in it yesterday evening though. Any point in hitting it with a little nitrogen this late?

It will definitely help it.

Sitting inside dreaming of warmer weather. So this spring when I want to plant millet and sun hemp, do I need to spray the winter Rye, or just mow it?

If you'll wait until it goes to seed you can just mow it. I'm pretty sure sunn hemp and millet like warm soil temps at planting anyways so it would be good to wait until maybe early June. That's about the same time the rye will be turning brown. If the rye is good and thick then it'll suppress most other growth underneath it until you mow it.

I don't know why but my clover and turnips haven't done real well this year. There is less clover than I've eve had and the turnips never got big at all. Several years ago I had a huge crop but that was when I still disced. I can't figure out why my fields aren't as productive especially this year.

Do you have more deer using your plots this year? Is it getting browsed to the dirt?

No it's almost like most of the seed never came up and what did just never got big. I use to grow turnips the size you have but mine now very rarely get close to that size.

Hmmmm.....I'm not sure on that one.

Turkey neck, when do you plant. I've always found that brassica's due better when planted early before the temps drop too much. The best ones were planted in September. Softball size turnips. When planted late they don't have time to mature before cold weather stunts their growth.

I always last weekend in September or first weekend in October. Unless we have no rain in the forecast.

Like clockwork���January and cold temps = deer hitting the food plots. Time for all that banked forage to pay off. That buck on the far left looks odd to me. He may have some age on him.

He is oddly shaped body wise.

Looks like an alpaca, maybe a llama.

Don't he though.....

It's a little grainy but here's a cropped pic of the llama buck. How old would you say he is???

It's hard to tell but he's old as hell it looks