timbercruiser

A chufa is a lot like a hybrid nutgrass. We always plant in May or June, it doesn't take long for them to form the nuts and usually nothing bothers them. If you have hogs in the area they will wipe them out. Once established there is a good chance the missed chufas will sprout the next year, often for several years without having replant. I would just sidedress the growing chufas with some triple 13, they aren't that hard to grow, but they do like sunlight. Most of the chufas I see cost arount $100 for 50 pounds..I have a friend that has three patches of the best looking chufas I have seen in years. You don't plant a seed, you plant the nut, just like nutgrass has. If I think to carry my camera next time I go by there I'll snap some pictures, just send me your e-mail address and I'll try to send a few to you.

I was asking haystack and soilman about growing some different crops in my food plots. i was thinking about chufa but have never grown it and know nothing about it. Haystack directed me to you, said you grow the stuff.
Is this a fall planted seed thus providing nutrition in the early spring?
Would it be beneficial to plant it with my soybeans after the soybeans begin to wither? Does it need alot of moisture or sunlight? Does it need higher nitrogen or does it make nitrogen like soybeans and clover? I planted a couple rows of corn wider apart this year with the intent on planting something between them in the fall. I will let the corn stand until spring to provide food for turkeys and pheasants. If the rows are roughly 4 ft apart would that be enough sunlight for the chufa to grow. What is your #1 recommendation for me having the greatest success with this plant and where is the cheapest source you have found for the seed? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Zack

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