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Post by bill9068 on Feb 23, 2023 14:39:52 GMT -5
I threw out some turnip seeds last fall in front of the house. They grew and deer come to eat morning and evening almost everyday on camera.  |
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Post by bill9068 on Feb 23, 2023 14:40:28 GMT -5
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Post by bill9068 on Feb 23, 2023 14:41:53 GMT -5
 The deer are right in front of the house just off to the left. |
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Post by parkerbow on Feb 23, 2023 18:43:42 GMT -5
I threw out some turnip seeds last fall in front of the house. They grew and deer come to eat morning and evening almost everyday on camera. The deer in my area of Perry County will not touch turnips and i have planted them several differernt times. All they do is rot and stink. It may help the soil some but the deer ignore them. |
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Post by boonechaser on Feb 24, 2023 0:11:00 GMT -5
I threw out some turnip seeds last fall in front of the house. They grew and deer come to eat morning and evening almost everyday on camera. The deer in my area of Perry County will not touch turnips and i have planted them several differernt times. All they do is rot and stink. It may help the soil some but the deer ignore them. I think much depends on area, but in SE IN the vegetation gets more attention then the bulbs themselves. Brassicas are a seasonal food source, but attractive to deer as a carbohydrate. |
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Post by esshup on Feb 24, 2023 1:40:05 GMT -5
Here at the house Brassicas don't even get a 2nd glance. 12 miles away at a hunting spot, the deer will paw turnips out of the ground and even eat the greens before there is a frost, and continue into the winter until they are gone.
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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 24, 2023 8:27:10 GMT -5
My little food plot has a lot of shade during the day. I understand for turnips to bulb good they need a lot of sun. My turnips and radishes produce good leaves but little to none in the bulb department.
My standard planting is purple top turnips, radishes, oats, buckwheat and clover.
The deer eat on all of it before and after a frost.
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Post by chewbacca on Feb 24, 2023 9:00:10 GMT -5
I grew a turnip plot for several years and my experience with it is the deer only seemed to eat the bulbs during winters where we had extended lengths of snow cover. They would paw down through the snow and then paw and pull them out of the ground. One year I had about an 800-1000 sq ft plot and we had snow on the ground for at about 3 weeks straight. Towards the end of muzzleloader season I sat near this plot one day and it appeared to be hardly touched. Went back and hunted the same stand the very next day and nearly every turnip had been pulled out of the ground and eaten. The plot got decimated in less than 24 hours! Prior to that they were just occasionally eating the greens. I witnessed this a couple of different seasons. The years where there was very little snow and plenty of other browse they didn't seem to touch them much at all.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Feb 24, 2023 9:45:08 GMT -5
Never had any luck with turnips. Grew big as softballs. Nibbled on leaves. They looked awesome, deer didn’t like them.
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Post by budd on Feb 24, 2023 9:56:23 GMT -5
My little food plot has a lot of shade during the day. I understand for turnips to bulb good they need a lot of sun. My turnips and radishes produce good leaves but little to none in the bulb department. My standard planting is purple top turnips, radishes, oats, buckwheat and clover. The deer eat on all of it before and after a frost. Deer hammer my turnip plot all winter, digging through the snow to get at them. I found it best to not OVER seed, as they never had room or enough nutrition to grow big. Our ground freezes hard, and stays that way until April, Ive heard of some people that will run a disk lightly over their turnip plot to flip the turnips out so the deer can eat the whole thing and not just what sticks above ground. I personally dont do this as it is illegal and considered baiting. Also had really good luck last fall with kale, the deer decimated a acre plot. |
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