Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Serious Deer Talk Forum What’s the latest you’ve planted food plots

Years ago when it was dry for a long time, I'm thinking maybe around 2018 or so it was a terrible drought. It didn't rain from Sept till the middle of December... we planted the week before the rain... like the first week of Dec.

I'd hate to know I had planted already. That's money down the chitter.

We need a tropical storm to brew up in the gulf and give us a thorough soaking for a day or two without all the wind and hurricane consequences

Not if your seed hasn't come up . No difference in being in a bag or in dry dirt long as they haven't germinated .

Right I got all my seed in the ground I'm just hoping a real light shower doesn't come...I've never planted later than this and it's always worked, some year better than others but I've always had enough for our small population

I remember this. We planted the first part of October like we normally do and just covered everything deep. We didn’t had a blade of grass come up until December. They looked good when they finally came up. That year we had tons of new bucks show up on our property coming to get water since we were the only place around with a creek that had water in it

That works well if you don't have turkeys or hogs to contend with.

Yea, I'm all for feeding the turkeys, but food plot seed is pretty pricey. I think I'll stick to scratch feed for them

may be after we clean up all the candy wrappers after 10/31 this year. but have planted well into November before with no issues. rain more important than planting date. Personally, I have never seen, much less killed a great buck opening weekend on a food plot.

We haven't planted the lease yet .... bushhogged only.... I planted at the house this past weekend and strung together all the water hoses I could find so I can "water it in" ... can't wait to see my water bill!

At this rate, I'm not sure it's ever gonna rain again.

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Yea

Looks like end of next week is showing good chances. Hopefully that won't fade away.

Here is the latest on the projected rainfall through Oct 15

It was 2016

Have planted in early october but no rain till mid november. Still came up and deer still ate it. Just later than normal

Yes, it was 2016. That's the year I only had an ATV disk to scratch the surface with. Needed a jack hammer.

2016 was the driest year that I remember in my lifetime.

Yep , it was also very dry in 07 ish.

Yep. ‘99, ‘07 and ‘16

07 was the year I didn't plant until December. For us in south Marshall county, 06, 07, and 08 were the three driest, back to back years, in my lifetime. 06 and 08 weren't dry for most of the rest of Bama, but south Sand Mountain was like a desert.

My brother and I had cows together back then. One of those years we got 4 rolls of hay, on one cutting from a 5 acre Tifton 44 bermuda field. It was nearly knee high in most spots but very thin, and army worms got into it, so we cut it instead of spending more money on insecticide.