Originally Posted by N2TRKYS


If you find dog fennel so beneficial and you grasped some hypothetical numbers that it's producing for you, then why aren't you planting it in your plots? Try as you may, you can't make dog fennel a better option in a foodplot than something that would be beneficial to a foodplot. I don't know why that's so hard for you to understand.


I’m not planting any of it…..I didn’t plant the crabgrass that started the rebuilding process and I didn’t plant the dog fennel that continues it….I’m letting nature choose during the summer months and grow it for me………and then I’m choosing what to grow during the winter. I think nature will grow what the conditions says it needs….Just the way it did in the beginning when my soil was completely depleted of carbon and it brought in a plant like crabgrass as step 1…..I’m not at step one anymore though…..I’m at step 4 or 5 and apparently my soil is ready for some woody biomass now to continue the process. I don’t see another plant that I’d want to bring in that I think would do any better overall that what the dog fennel is doing. It’s free, very woody, and very drought tolerant to boot. It should break down and make for some really rich soil eventually. I’m good with it coming into any field I maintain.

I think I may be causing the dog fennel to grow in a little bit of overabundance though due to excess nitrogen. I’m ok with that right now for this rotation because that boo-boo probably just produced me a nice crop of high end carbon that’s about to get recycled…..I’ll ease back on the N and see if I can change the dog fennel composition by changing the growing condition to keep it more balanced in the future and not shading out the other vegetation growing along side of it.....the "summer deer food" plants


Last edited by CNC; 11/11/19 03:57 PM.
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