Plot pictures

Here is an adjacent field called the landing. Spent plenty of time removing rocks. Planted Mass Builder 8/29, overseeded bare spots with rye later. Turkey in plot in background on left near the edge.

Pictures show the same two fields at the connection. Similar soil, very sandy.

Nice work Doug.

I will test my vast computer skills. This is the Far field. Planted with Soil Builder 6/1. Then followed up with Frosty Delight 8/5 before mowing. Do not see much of the Frosty Delight, but culprits may have gobbled up the seed. Field is very sandy. May plant the Soil Builder again in the spring. We have had a very cool summer, many nightime temps in the 40's.

Naturally, I can't get the pictures in order. Still pleased with the growth and the activity.

This one was planted in the spring and was not replanted. Everything in here has signs of deer eating it. This is 4 galore.

Another plot

This is another new spot we extended an existing plot and added this area. Deer are in here daily.

Final photos of some of the plots. We didn’t get much rain until October and the plots came back. We seeded a couple times without getting rain as predicted, so this was a tough fall. We are happy with the results. Deer are hitting all the plots but the grains and greens seem to get the most action.

This is the spot we created in the spring.

Looks like you have it going on Doug.

Nice!

Outstanding. Can't wait until you get some rain.

Grains and Greens 10 days after planting with no rain.

Awesome!

Well got some soil samples back today. Did some plots in the spring and some now. Overall the results were good. Just need to add 90 lbs of potash per acre. John O'Brion has posted on the importance of potash. I am a believer than prior to working with Grampa Rays we just didn't add enough. Huge difference in results.

After another attempt at posting, I now see other posts. I don't know what the problem was. Continued good luck with your efforts.

I am having some problems posting. I will try again. I see the grains in the 2nd Soil Builder plot. I do not think that the broadleaves in the first Soil Builder picture are buckwheat. Can you help me out?

After looking at the pictures closely and with noqs1 observations of the top pictures we agreed that there was a lot of broadleaf in that plot. So a couple of hours ago we mowed it off and killed it with select. It will be spot sprayed with round up in a few days. Then when it is dead it will be disked and planted in Frosty Delight.

Thank noqs1

Brad very nice plot and a very nice buck.

Mass Builder

Correct there are weed issues in most of the plots and some of the plots are overgrazed to allow the weeds. The weed have been a huge issue in my area for the farmers as well. We also rent out a 16 acre field and the soybeans look very weedy. Overall I find a lot of food in each of these plots to be happy with the GR seed. It is time to spray and get going on changing these over to fall food plots. We got food for the summer and fixated a lot of nitrogen which was our goals.

Last post must not have worked. In the second picture I see the oats and triticale. I see more broadleaves in the first plot. Not sure if that is the buckwheat and peas.

They grew different. The top one will be top dressed before a rain in early August. The lower one with the apple tree on the left has been sprayed and is dying. It will be disked under and replanted with Frosty Delight.

Got it. I guess that I am seeing oats and triticale in the second picture. I see more broadleaves in the first picture.

The two soil builders are also two different plots.

Your plots are looking good. Why do the 2 Soil Builder pictures look different?

4 galore different plot

Inner sanctum

Four Galore

Soil builder

Logging road mix

Ok here are some pictures this one is soil builder

I am looking forward to your picture update. I planted Soil Builder in one of my plots, 6/1. Have not had much temperature yet and cooler nights in the 40's. The Soil Builder is coming in nicely, I have no pictures yet and no cameras out either. Curious if you will mow the Soil Builder. I will follow that with the Bulb Galore mix. I may not till in the Soil Builder, just clip and broadcast into it for spring regrowth from the triticale and clovers in Soil Builder. I will be talking to John. Your plots are looking good.

One is .75 acres and the other 2 are just under and just over .5 acres. I just use a range finder to get length and width of plots and put those measurements into an online acre calculator. We have 9 total plots and they range in size from one acre down to 1/4.

Look great, how big is your plots??

Update on plots and I didn't bring photo to get pictures: sorry. So the Soil Builder and Inner Sacutum are doing great. The 4 galore and Grains and Greens are good down the middle but around the edges weeds took over. Less sun around the edge and it didn't get ahead of weeds like it did down the middle. So it will be time to kills and disk some plots in a few days, however some of the plots look so good I will topdress in some Frosty Delight instead of kill and till in some of my plots.

Side note: we planted Red Zone as we had good luck in the past and this year is our first year of using mostly Grandpa Rays products so we wanted to compare. We have very little growth of red zone. In fact since I didn't see the plot get put in I thought he forgot. Summary GR out preformed all other seed we put in. We are going to do a comparison with our fall planting as well but we are very happy with GR seed.

Looking great! What a busy spring you have had so far.

Great job. Plots looks really good.

looks great!

Thanks for the answer. Wow, that is some kind of project. Looks like you are off to a great start.

Planted last Thursday in Soil Builder. Grant County WI. Will update in a few weeks. Added 1 lb of Grains and greens to this. This will be plowed down in August. Plan on something like Frosty Delight to replace this. Everything is in for the summer. The plow is put away until August now. Eight food plots this spring and planted over 350 trees and shrubs. Planted swamp white oaks, hazelnuts, chestnuts, Apple trees, Pear trees, Midwest crabapple shrubs, Persimmon, Cherry, Plum, and white oaks. Time to take a break, but will be doing fall food plots in August.

What state?

Grant County

Looking good. Where are you located?