Food plot for Dec/Jan/Feb

I've always experienced Radishes holding their value earlier...and they seem to rot much faster than their typical brassica counterpart: turnips.

Purple Top Turnips are the obvious and cheapest choice but provide excellent tonnage. If not overseeded and fertilized appropriate I kid you not we've grown volleyball size every now and then but full softball size is normal anymore. Incredible really. Deer start turning onto them earlier each year as they learn about them but I've already had deer still hitting the plots into Valentine's day easily and even St. Patricks day if still quite cold and not devoured yet.

Cereal grains will get dug for as well if they know still viable shoots are there. Oats and Rye especially more than wheat at least around us.

Standing corn and beans. I am going to electric fence off 2 acres of drilled soybeans and not remove fencing until 1st Dec. Same area will have 3-4 acres of corn I am going to leave standing and bush hog 1/4 acre every couple weeks Starting Dec. is my next years plan. I also have plots of clover, turnips, radish and beats as well as oats and alfalfa on property.

By now with a few freeze thaw cycles the turnips are getting kind of mushy, however they are still using them a bit. Standing beans is the best in my opinion, much easier and cheaper than corn to successfully grow a good stand of beans.

That's a good idea!

Turnips and radishes.

Two plots...one planted August 5 that did well with an early rain. The second was planted about 2 weeks later and never got the early rain it needed. I ended up replanting it in late September.

I mixed in some Austrian peas in the second because I feared I wouldn't get good bulb growth. Deer must have eaten all the peas as fast as they grew because there's not a single one now.

Bulbs nearly as big as volleyballs in the first. Smaller than a baseball in the second.

Still tons of food left in both as of last weekend.

Both plots are between 2-3 acres.

Swilk where do you get the bulk radish and turnip seeds at?

See if that place can get rape as well...if so mix it in too, the non-bulb type brassica definitely seems more desirable before either of the other two.

The radishes here get hit well before the turnips...the greens are gone going into snow periods typically as well here.

If he isn't a fan of adding that, one thing you could do is seed clover with it, sole reason is for the spring green period. I love frost seeding into brassicas as typically the brassica canopies leave quite a bit of dirt exposure going into the next year and is perfect for soil to seed contact for frost seeding clovers into.

I'd wait and see if the elevated status now solves that or not before throwing frost seed on the ground as well.

Have you thought of digging a pond right in the middle someday? Solve that issue and create a communication hub in the middle for the deer.