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Anyone else’s food plots suck?

DelaWhere_Arrow said:
Oooohhhhhh that sucks.
They kinda talk about both those things in the podcast. I was listening yesterday as I mowed crunchy leaves away from trails leading to my brown barren brassica plots. The best forage I planted was in the trails where a hole had opened in my seed bag and trickled rapeseed 35 yds from the plot to the lake. Does that count as partial success?
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Under the current conditions, I would say yes.
 
HaunSolo said:
I have great plots every year. I just stick to a mix of cereal rye, clover, and chicory. Chicory and rye are both drought tolerant and grow in poorer soil conditions than other types of seed.

I did a brassicas plot one year and had a really dry August and the plot was awful.

Edit: A nice thing about rye is that I never have to till the ground. Simply mow and broadcast out of a bag spreader at 100-200 lbs per acre. Cereal rye also keeps weeds down.
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Are you mowing clover low, then just broadcasting the rye into perennial clover / chicory?
 
Fortunately all three of my plots are lush and green now in SC. My newest plot with just the Abruzzi Rye is getting hit the hardest now. Last year the oats got the attention. I have Oats and Rye in the other two, but the newest one with no lime and Abruzzi has the most attention last few weeks for sure.
 
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