Here are updated pics of some of my foodplots from my earlier post of 6 weeks ago.

The sunflowers have taken off with our recentheavy east coast rains and are in full bloom:



The spring-planteddurana clover/burnet/chicory plot in the powerline has had some weed problems, but mowing and herbicides havekept them under control and it now looks like a plush green carpet. Deer are in here every evening:



The kura clover field was re-juvenatedalso bymowing and the rains; deer are pulling down stalks to feed on silk and immature ears from the (1A) cornfield in the background:



The trees are full of maturing apples, and deer are hanging around here after dark (note the browse line):


The corn along my tree line and chestnuttree orchardis 8 ft high now (that is a weedy 5 yr oldalfalfa/clover mix in the foreground):



And every once in a while, planta random, senseless act of beauty:




Enjoy!

-fsh

Very nice - Sunflowers are espeially appealing to see, but the clover is the Deer Magnet.

Nice pics

FH

A little slice of heaven right there.
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Everything looks great, do you have a local turkey pop, they're gonna be hamming that sunflower field come fall.

Awesome pics too by the way. I'm really enjoying this, might have to change my username, how's Rob/PA Farmbowyer sound...LOL

Rob
- it kinda surprised me as I thought the same last year w/the turks. Last fall/winter, the turks (not many) went intothe corn fields, and I never saw them touch the sunflowers.
-fsh

That's interesting....whodathunk?

We planted some sunflowers in a backwoods spot along with some biologic and sorgum, they cleaned the sunflowers off immediately and then the bio when it turned cold, never did touch the sorgum...

Very nice food plots. My food plots consist of corn, brassica and clover. Now that I have seen your sunflower plot and how nice it looks, I think I may do the same. I have a questionon how you planted all of the sunflower seeds. Did you use a grain drill or broadcast them by hand?

mlo
- thanks. I used a MF two-row corn planter for my sunflower fields. I also used treflan for pre-emergent control of grasses (foxtail and crabgrass would otherwise take over;my first-ever sunflower plot was buried in foxtail...).

-fsh

How funny, before I got to reading the follow-up posts....that's exactly what I thought.

To the poster:

Next year, consider beans in the mix with the sunflowers. I've seen some impressive set up where the turkeys AND deer come in for a few days together each fall on a small area...makes for neat sight, and some good hunting!

Phade - thx for the suggestion. The sunflower fields are fordove hunting, so I endeavor to keep these fields clean as practical.I didn't note it in my post,but there are ~10A of soybeans just beyond the sunflowers that a local farmer had planted to produce a crop. (Unfortunately this is his last year, after doing this for the past 10 yrs).

-fsh

Fsh, what is likely to happen to the 10 acre field when the farmer stops farming it? The farmer quit on several properties around me where the fields were small and the landowners let them go to grass. Lost their value for deer and geese and put pressure on me to fill the void. Sure wish they were still being tilled.