Show us your habitat!

[Wingman]

I love looking at what other people are doing with their plots and property. Gives me ideas for next year.

[SB]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours

[jdbuckshot]

mine is bigger.

[Wingman]

Delta Wildlife seed program corn planted 4/26
5/8

5/22


Roundup Ready Forage Soybeans (Hornbeck Monarchs and Eagle Large Lads). No visible difference yet. 2 rows between tracks are Eagle, 2 rows either side of tracks are Monarchs.


Elbon Rye mixed with Austrian Winter Pea. Fall 2011 planting. Specialty Seed product.



Grain Sorghum plot sub-soiled in summer of 2011, mowed in spring of 2012 and planted last week.


Arrowleaf/Crimson/Wheat/Oat roadside plot planted in fall of 2010. Mowed in late summer of 2011. Arrowleaf dominating now, crimson was visible in early April. A few stray oat stalks.


Native mix: Big and Little Bluestem, Switchgrass, Partridge Pea and Black-eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower planted May 2011. Have not seen coneflower yet, black-eyed susans doing well. Grasses emerged late summer 2011. Partridge pea will grow on the moon.


Partridge pea, black-eyed susan and switchgrass:


Partridge pea:


Black-eyed Susans. Planted at 1/4# per acre in May of 2011.

[redspeckable]

Awesome stuff wingman. You truly are a steward of the land. Are you just spraying roundup on the grasses in the corn and bean field?

[Wingman]

I spot sprayed the Bermuda patches with generic Select at a pint per acre in early April. Then I sprayed everything after I planted with a quart of Roundup. I'm going to spray everything with roundup again soon. I've had a time with that Bermuda in all of my old ponds. That's one reason I went with the RR seed this year. I had rice in it first year then just let the grass and smartweed grow last year. As you can see I got very little germination wherever the Bermuda is.

[JaMak84]

Rob, I must admit I envy what you have. You have no idea how refreshing it is to see a landowner really managing their property. Year after year I meet with the same people to discuss management activities, and year after year nothing ever gets done. I would estimate that 90% of the CRP and WRP properties I visit have had zero management on them since the day they were converted. One of these days I'm gonna win the lottery and get a place of my own.

[jdbuckshot]

i'll get pics this weekend.

[Wingman]

I have enjoyed fooling with it and am blessed to be able to have a little family land to do it on. Now to get a deer or quail to wander through and find it.

[Agua]

Check your email wingy.

[CW]

I have enjoyed fooling with it and am blessed to be able to have a little family land to do it on. Now to get a deer or quail to wander through and find it.

All you've got to do is keep keep living and the deer will be in those beans. Quail may need a gps and some transportation.

[SB]

You Bank Walker.

[Blackduck]

Whats the partdridge pea good for? Any waterfowl use?

[Wingman]

I planted it for bobwhites.

[jdbuckshot]

The Peas


Busting up the dirt


spreading the peas


all covered up


Back Corner we dug a water hole, there was no water on this 100acre + tract




This tract Dad bought september of 2010

it consisted of 40 acres of bottom land hardwood, 66 acres of 18-22 year old plantation pines, and 30+ acres of really thick seed pine, there was only one small (less than 1/4 acre) of open area for food plots

we thinned the timber last year and cut out two three acre food plots, and dug water holes on both plots, dug up the stumps and roots and had it burned.

we did soil samples and limed / fertilized accordingly fall of last year and planted the normal winter greens.

the plot pictured has a strip of peas, a good stand of ladino clover, then about halfway through the plot is peas,

Dad planted the other half of the plot(up to the shooting house with corn on 5/30/2012.

Peas are up and i will get pics this weekend, they look fantastic. Corn should be comming up soon as well.



the other 3 acre food plot consist of 2 acres of sunflowers, and 1 acre of clover.