Despite real dry conditions, my plots are doing Purdy good.
The pumpkins I was able to bucket water to them to keep them going. 400 plants each got about 10 gallons.

The few sunflower plants, (rubbing posts) also got water by buckets.
Clover struggled a bit but the past 2 weeks, a few small rains have fallen and the clover is doing well.
Just planted Brassicas 9 days ago and they are coming up great.
I seldom bowhunt looking over a food plot but just enjoy doing it.

Nice

Geez those pumpkins look great!

mine's doing good too. FINALLY got some rain last week. Planted rye, oats, rape, buckwheat and peas. I planted clover last year and thats doing surprisingly well

Goldy, why that mix this time of year?
Way to early for rye/oats.
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Nice,my little 2 acres food plot is doing well planted 3 weeks ago tomorrow 9/10ths of rain yesterday and today 2" since it was planted radishes and turnips.Might work up another 2,3 acres and put in some conola in the next 10 days.

Looking good

Anything Jbyrd can do I can do better. I can do anything better than you…



bucksnbears. Probably

?? You drunk?. Go put on some makeup.

160, been planting pumpkins in food plots for years. It think it's about the best (looking) yet.
Really putting out fruit now.
Rick, that rain shold really help those turnips. Did you fertilize?

I always plant it the first week of august. My soil is very sandy and poor. Doesnt get too big at all,. always works out

Put out some No Plow last week on the lake bed now that the water went down right after a nice rain we have another one going on now that should get things going.

Any of you guys ever crack open a few pumpkins after nov 1st? The deer went nuts over them. We added some to a couple plots this year.

Looks great- almost as much fun as hunting!

Looks good, you try to invite big game and I'm trying to avoid them. I planted a few hills inside this old corral at the ranch this year, because my wife like to raise a few pumpkins for decorating and for our two granddaughters. At our home in town just not enough room for them.

I put in 5 hills and never have watered them yet and have gone crazy. I have sheep fence about 5 feet from the corral that goes all the way around it and it is out of that fence too.

To this point they haven't messed with me, and I hope they don't. There is lots of basketball size jack-o-lanterns in there.

Looks good B&B.

Never mind JP...he hunts on his Queen's land, so he knows nothing about food plots.

Looking good bucks. We've been getting the much needed rain here too and the plots have been flourishing. Ones clover and chicory. The other is a brassica mix. Sept. 16th can't come soon enough.

Did a simple estimate on tonnage per acre. On a 1/4 acre, there are usually 400_500 pumpkins on a good year.
The pumpkins I plant are " sugar pie" variety.
They get about 6_8 lbs. At 400 per 1/4 acre that's some serious weight.
Just satisfying sitting on my deck and watching deer pour in late season 30 yards away.

Ozark, no, the deer have no problem getting them open. Even when frozen.
Impressive Snowy for not watering them.
Just measured that tallest sunflower plant. 12 1/2 '.
Really don't care how tall they get. Thick stalks is what I want. There will be a cam guarding them soon to capture the carnage the bucks will put on them.

Snowy,
If raising a few for granddaughters, scratch their names on green pumpkins with a nail.

When they turn orange, their name will appear as a raised tan scar.

My kids couldn't figure that out for a few years, had them convinced it was a magic pumpkin patch!

Thanks!!! I will do that this afternoon that will be pretty for them.

I put this in 5 days ago. 48% oats, 48% peas,1% each radishes and turnips.

I bushoged the area ran the tiller over it 3x broadcast seed by hand, then drug a cattle pannal over it behind the 4 wheeler and with rach pass of the. Wheeler I moved over a tire width and used the tires to pack the seed bed. I didn't fertilize . Thr next night er got a nice rain. I have not been home in 4 days but hopefully it will be coming up soon. It's my 2nd food plot in my life the last one I did with hand tiller and never hunted it or watched to see if deer hit it at all. We don't need them to kill deer but my boys showed interest in them so I'm putting some out
I plan on over seeding several areas I mow for paths with duch white clover and may put some other things out if I get time. The clover is mainly for my bees but if the deer like it that's even better. I don't know squat about what to plant for deer or when. Just went to the seed store and got a mix they make and recommend for putting in at this time of year. I can't wait to get home and see if it's coming up. This one is about 20 yards by 90 yards.