Turnips
 

This guy I work with tells me all the time that deer love turnips has anyone ever heard this?

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Two years ago I mixed turnip seeds with a wheat & oat seeds for myhalf-acre fallfood plot. Everything grew real well. The turnipshad lush greens with the turnip tops sticking above ground. The deer ate the wheat and oats and left the turnips alone.I pulled some up and took themhome for the pot. The restrotted in the ground the following summer.

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Some people say they do and some people say they don't. They say that after a good hard frost they taste sweeter. So, most deer will not hit them until after it's been cold for a while. It probably depends on if they have other stuff to munch on like beans or corn. I planted some this year, but there is nothing around for about a mile for the deer to eat except clover and grass, and not a whole lot of it. This is my first time planting them so I guess I'll see what happens.

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I planted some expensive Bio-Logic Brasscus and had a few deer eat on it.....and the Father In-law planted some cheap turnips and raddishes in the bottom field and the deer ate the heck out of it and even pulled some of the turnips and raddishes out of the ground trying to eat the tops off.There were tracks all over his turnip patch field so I'm a firm believer in turnips!!!!


I'm sure that the brasscus and turnips are in the same leafy family and the turnips are a very hearty quick growing plant they do very well with a small amount of rain or in low lying areas that have the early morning dew.Last year in the fall I would go hunting in the mornings than walk back by the turnip patch and pull up some turnips,peel themand cut me off a few slices to eat while I waited for any late deer to stop by and feed.

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I heard from a guy that ran an outfitting business that they "loved them"... Don't know personally though...

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I herd the same thing ,
Deer will eat the turnips after a good frost .
I planted a few different plots this year and added turnip to them .
I will let you no for sure asap .
Might be in November though ..:D

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My neighbor grows different types of greens, spinach and kale in her garden. She says they really tear up the kale and browse the others while they're in there. She asked me to go whack one or two for her when bow season starts.

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I've tried them here in the middle of SC and the deer usually don't eat them until they bloom at the end of their growing cycle which is about 2 weeks after deer season ends here. If you have an earlier cold season, you might benefit from them.

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I heard the same thing that deer love turnips. I planted some last year but they never came up, which was my fault because i planted them at the wrong time. Gonna try them again though.

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Great thanks guys

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I planted a small patch of them last year, white topped purples, the deer didn't touch them until January, then they decimated them. Go figure...

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I had 3 acres of turnips and collards right next to one of my deer stands, and they never touched them before the end of deer season. Even then I think it was just a little browse feed to them, because they had a trail beat through them that looked likea cow trail.

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A guy I work with told me I will need to plow the turnips about mid november to expose the roots .

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Hmmmmmm...?Have you ever pulled up a turnip....not much of a root to a turnip,just a small root coming out from the very bottom of it?Not sure the deer would be interested in it at all.I leave the turnips all fall and pick the larger ones as needed then leave the rest all winter for the deer.Another thing to plant is foraging oats or winter wheat...it will be there for the deer all fall and winter and will come up in the spring for the birds and turkeys.

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ya thay work really good thay hold deer in your plots but thay help the deer make in the winter too but you need cold winters

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Turnips are in the brassacuss family. All brassicus' need a good frost to sweeten the greens. They are a late season food source. They are not a very good attractant to hunt over during the hunting season. Add them to your winter wheat and oats plots. The wheat will be a good attractant and the turnips will provide much needed food during the winter months for your deer herd.