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Post by Gunslinger on Mar 18, 2006 23:05:16 GMT -5
What grows well in red dirt?Thats what I'm hunting a hilly area with red dirt.These will be plots to help the deer and will not be hunted over.Scents we only have hill tops on power lines and logging roads to plant..any ideas?
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Post by wolf on Mar 19, 2006 0:27:52 GMT -5
corn!!! oh wait you said PLANT ah never mind cant help you the only thing I know that grows good in that lovely red clay dirt is ROCKS!!!
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Post by Gunslinger on Mar 20, 2006 20:41:23 GMT -5
I hear ya.But rocks are hard on there teeth!LMAO
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Post by alabamaswamper on Aug 1, 2006 10:30:17 GMT -5
DD,
YOu can grow anything you want in any color dirt. ALl you have to do is be willing to lime and take soil samples. Most of our plots are in some of the reddest (is that a word? LOL), rockiest dirt you can think of. Yet, two years after clearing 10+ new plot sites and 30 tons of lime later, I have some absolutely beautiful plots. I can only imagine what they will look like this fall.
I started out with PH's of 4.7-5.5, which sucks! I've shoveled so much lime off of my trailer that my back still hurts. Endless process but well worth the results.
I can grow anything I pretty much want now. This year, here's my mixtures.
Winter wheat Buck Forage Oats (well worth the price) Redland III clover Arrowleaf Clover Biologic Maximum Chicory (perinnial plant but treated as annual in these plots)
I plant these at a rate of:'
Per acre
Wheat--50lbs Oats--30lbs All clovers--5lbs Chicory--3lbs Maximum--1/3 of 1/4 acre bag
YOu just have to break these rates down if your plots are smaller like I have to.
THat is my base mix and I will add some Austrian Winter Peas to some of it and some plots are 1+ acre adn they are Imperial Clovers/Chicory and will be overseeded with Biologic Maximum. Another big field will be 3/4 of an acre of Buck Forage oats and wheat only.
I also have some new plots that will be:
Wheat Oats (not BF oats) Winter Rye (not especially nutritional to the deer but it will help build the soil for next year)
I don't plant any kind of Rye. Lots do but there is little nutritional value to it. They'll eat it but I'd rather have the deer eating good food instead of junk to them. Rye and Corn is nothing but candy. Although, I do bait camera sites with corn.
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