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 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