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Post by hornharvester on Aug 16, 2009 15:57:55 GMT -5
I planted my fall turnips last week and with a minor rain shower they are up about 1". I used triple 12 fertilizer. I got one more plot to put into wheat about the middle September. h.h.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 16, 2009 16:06:52 GMT -5
I planted my fall turnips last week and with a minor rain shower they are up about 1". I used triple 12 fertilizer. I got one more plot to put into wheat about the middle September. h.h. Are these the Purple Tops? Where do you get the seed in bulk? |
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 16, 2009 18:28:54 GMT -5
WW,
Yes, they are purple top. I use Shot Plot which has rape in it too but its mostly turnips. I also have bulk purple top turnips I bought at Rural King. A small bag of Shot Plot plants 1/2 acre and cost around $15.00. The ones I got at Rural King cost $6.00 a lbs. Either one will draw deer in late season. h.h.
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Post by NON-TYPICAL on Aug 17, 2009 8:35:41 GMT -5
Planted 1 acre of turnips and green patch plus yesterday.
Also planted winter peas for the first time. has anyone ever used this before and how did it work? what can be sprayed over turnips and clover to kill weeds? Have one plot that is getting taken over by weeds.
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Post by danf on Aug 17, 2009 16:04:46 GMT -5
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 20, 2009 16:13:00 GMT -5
What pounds/ounces of turnip seeds per acre are you gusy planting?
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 20, 2009 18:40:51 GMT -5
What pounds/ounces of turnip seeds per acre are you gusy planting? 4 lbs will plant 1/4 acre which is a bunch of turnips. i also bought a few bags of deer's first choice turnips at rural king on sale for $2.00 a bag but that was this spring. h.h. |
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 20, 2009 22:23:51 GMT -5
WW,
If you are going to plant turnips try a bag of Shot Plot. I think you will like the results. It plants 1/4 acre and costs about $15.00. h.h.
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Post by NON-TYPICAL on Aug 20, 2009 22:45:47 GMT -5
Check out walmart they have shot plot for 9.00 a bag.
you might be able to buy it at walmart.com?
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Post by ridgerunner on Aug 24, 2009 20:49:50 GMT -5
Yeah I planted 15 pound of Appin turnips today. Hope we get a little rain like they say this week.
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 1, 2009 8:24:08 GMT -5
Yesterday I planted the last of my plots in winter wheat. I have three choices side-by-side for the deer to choose from. It will be interesting to see what they eat at what time of the year. h.h.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 1, 2009 8:53:29 GMT -5
We've heavily plant feed oats (which surprisingly germinate real well)instead of the "Buck Forage Oats" and the deer eat it down pretty quickly. We backed it up with the red top turnips this year to give them something to chew on after a couple frosts.
This is the second year in a row that the sharecropper farmer did not plant anything on the 80 arces next to us, so we thought we would need something to attract and hold the deer a little.
The day after we planted a good thunderstorm moved through soaking the ground pretty well. The ground was fairly moist at the time of planting- that is important.
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 1, 2009 15:02:47 GMT -5
WW,
I use regular bin-run wheat from the feed mill. The wheat is cleaned of small weed seeds. If you sow clover seed on top of the wheat in the spring and add some fertilizer you get a nice clover patch. h.h.
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 9, 2009 13:50:19 GMT -5
Took a few picture of my plots today.... wheat on the left, turnips in the middle and clover on the right. The clove patch runs 175 yards, the turnips and wheat are 10 yards by 80 yards. My stand is behind me about 5 yards. h.h.   If you look close you can see the deer tracks in the turnips.  |
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Post by drs on Sept 9, 2009 14:03:00 GMT -5
Your Turnips look GREAT! "HH" Hope it draws in Deer for you!  |
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Post by Dan Reeves on Sept 10, 2009 22:11:09 GMT -5
Turnips, oats and rape have continued to be a staple of our fall plots, we maintain clover all year long and strip the fall plantings into the existing clover plots.
It's going to awesome once our fruit trees get producing in the next year or two.
We already have native persimmon trees fruiting, the apples, pears, and crab apples will be soon to follow.
Our current plots are 6-9 years old and have really been pulling and holding them this year.
With an ownership change some time back, we lost all our our plots to the new owners, now that we've bought our own I think we can get a real good thing going.
I'll add some pic's later.
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Post by bigballer on Dec 21, 2009 12:24:59 GMT -5
So HH and WW lets see some pics of the deer in your plots??? was just interested in knowing how your plots kept the deer around and if it brought them in to you? We are clearing out our woods and planting better trees. Had a lot of cotton wood in there and relatives cut most the good trees out a few years back. So we planted some oaks and hickory along with some walnut and apples trees last spring. I am thinning out the woods so that there are more areas to shoot and so that the sun can get to the smaller tree's. I was thinking about putting some strawberries out in the spring and then planting turnips in the fall. But didn't know if that would be a good idea or not. These are not fields like you guy's have but more just open spots in the woods that in 5-10 years will have trees growing in them. These spots are only about 3,000 sq/ft areas and we can't get tracktors in to them. Just wondering if the strawberry/turnip idea would be good. Our apple trees should produce a little bit this year but next year they should be in full swing. What do you guy's think?
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