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Default Update #4, Mowed Will it strengthen the plants?

4th edition in my first ever foodplot. If you haven't seen the other 3 posts of this saga, check out this link: http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1551786

These are the lastest pics as of today June 15th as it continues to grow. I went in today to check it out and heard a deer go. Also, there are huge tracks in the ground in the next door cornfield. I walked around the food plot and determined I'd come in after work and mow it off with my mower deck as high as it could go so I'd just clip off the top of the grasses, weeds and be above the clovers, brassicas, rapes, turnips and biologic. Not that I know what rapes, brassicas, turnips look like. I do know what biologic looks like and obviously clovers. Here's a pic after I mowed it off looking towards my treestand tree. It's the tree with the opening in the upper left of the screen.


This next picture is standing under the tree looking out into the food plot. You can see my truck in the background.



This next picture shows how high the actual golden rod/CRP field grows every year. This shows what the field has been year in and year out the last 30 years. I mowed "fingers" through the weeds to the foodplot. One I mowed the length of the field on a deer trial that has been there for years and years. Path of least resistance you know. I also mowed fingers to and from the corn field.


And of course, here's a close up of the clovers with the biologic or brassicas etc....It's about ankle high if that.

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