How I Plant Food Plots Into Bad Soils

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If you find yourself where the soil quality isn't that great, it's still a really good idea to plant food plots. Those food plots may not be as good as someone else's but they'll still be the best food attraction in the area.
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@MichiganRick 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like a Jeff Sturgis video...word for word....

@johnlindsay8630 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the information

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

You bet!

@karma8001 Жыл бұрын

Good video I do it also then get some dikon or tillage radish in there after a year or 2 they till the ground great. For your viewers don't mix the winter rye grain with the brassicas. Around here farmers are doing allot of cover cropping so our local seed stores get allot in

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

I typically do brassicas and fill in with daikon/tillage radish but I've never tried it in poor soils. That's definitely a better option than busting up your ground mechanically and mixing your good top layer back in. Thanks for adding that!

@TheBack50 7 ай бұрын

Great information. I tried my hand at making food plots last fall and my inexperience and lack of proper equipment hurt my pocket. What advice would you give to someone who is in the rocky Missouri Ozark area? My soil samples say only my potassium in low. The other 2 were in the mid to good range.

@Alianderfarm Жыл бұрын

Love it

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@bowhunterloco8369 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video it was very helpful, just curious what you would recommend for a similar type of area but further south, Southern Missouri to be specific. Rocky, poor soil quality, and sometimes very hot and dry. Tons of great potential that's why it reminds me of the area you talk about in your video, but I'm just curious what alternatives to winter rye and buckwheat you would use down here? I've been told clover, but not sure. I do have good equipment and plenty of access. Thanks in advance

@Sandwichking-hikes Жыл бұрын

I am desperately trying to improve my soil in my food plot area, it was bulldozed years ago with hard pan clay and erosion so no top soil. Was that way when I purchased. Getting a bit of growth but I figure will take a couple years building up more and more growth each year.

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

Keep working on it. It definitely can be done.

@jeffpepin5930 5 ай бұрын

Do you recommend this same process for an established food plot that had brassicas and winter rye in last year. Should I be planting buckwheat in the summer? Soil ph was good last year but that’s with years of amending

@rfb7117 Жыл бұрын

Do you prefer to spray the buckwheat with RU standing or after you have cultipacked it?

@rfb7117 Жыл бұрын

I'm assuming you broadcast your buckwheat after spraying the RU. How do you get good soil to seed contact, do you plant the buckwheat after a rain, and possibly cultipack it? Great information....thanks, Bob

@rfb7117 Жыл бұрын

Sorry one more question.....what is your rate of seeding the buckwheat and WR?

@karma8001 Жыл бұрын

@rfb7117 u broadcast the buckwheat then you cultipack then the roundup. Want 2 save time cultipack and spray at the same time if you have the right boom on your sprayer

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

I spray after I crimp because you'll find that there's some native weeds much lower to the soil so you'll be able to get a spray on those if the buckwheat is knocked down already.

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

@@rfb7117 yeah, I wait until the soil under the standing buckwheat is soft, like after a rain. Then I press it in with a cultipacker or lawn roller filled with water. But ideally you're also seeding in front of a rain which will get that seed down in the soil as well.

@stevegermain1222 Жыл бұрын

I have been subscribed a little while and really like the content , six and a half minutes dancing around the chemical issue at the beginning of the video was a bit much for me

@HobbyHarvest Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback.