kansaswiderack

Has anyone tried this combo in the same plot? I am thinking of planting soybeans this summer & broadcastings turnips around Sept 1. Thought that might work well w/ the green plants going into the fall & beans as they rippen. My understanding is the deer love the turnips once it gets real cold. In the past I have planted both beans & milo. With my relatively small food plots the deer seem to strip the milo as soon as it rippens & eat the beans off before they can set beans. Doing it this way would give me twice as much area in beans as in the past plus provide the turnips for later.

jmbuckhunter

Yep, that should be a combo. I'll be doing the same this year.

bassman417

We had turnips in our food plot in our deer pen last year. At first we thought it wasa bunch of mumbo-jumbo that deer love turnips so we started pulling a few out for us to eat. After the first heavyfrost hit they started pawing at the ground to work em out and just devoured em. I dont know why they wait so long but they do in fact love them. It sounds like a good combo choice you have planned. You should keep the deer in the area early season with the beans then once it gets cold its almost a certainty theyll hang around for turnips.

Bugflipper

I do this but with collards. Collards are milder so no need for a heavy frost to make them taste good. The shade from the beens will actually let you plant them a month sooner. That way the OCT rains will produce tonnage instead of germination. When the beans die out the greens take over. I just till it all under after the greens seed in early spring. Take a soil sample, amend and have never had to replant the beens. The collards come back in the spring as well but die out in July. So they have to be reseeded.
Doing it this way gives me a lot of organic matter to put back in the soil. So far I have gotten away with it 6 years without crop rotation. As a bonus it gives them a good food supply in early spring with the collard sprouts when times are hard.
Blessings

BTBowhunter

Had good results with beans planted early and turnips planted all around the edges around Sept 1 where the beans were already hard hit. I like the idea of broadcasting them right into the beans though. Might try it this season

kansaswiderack

Looks like a few people agree w/ my idea. I will give it a try this year & see what happens. The area I am in is heavy in ag & attracking & holding deer can be difficult. I have excellent cover which tends to hold deer under extreme conditions, but during the milder times they can be anywhere. I hope this puts them over the top.

Snoogsdad

I haven't tried this, but my concern would be to keep the turnip seed rate low enough that they don't crowd the beans out. I had a couple of blends that had turnips in them and the turnips crowded everything else out. Just a thought.

1sagittarius

I live in a heavy ag area with alot of wood lots. Deer population is around 18/sq mile, lots of good habitat. With human activity in the neighborhood, it is hard to get deer to come in during hunting hours. I planted turnips and brassicas the year before .... and the deer did not touch them September through April. The deer prefered standing RR soybeans, RR corn, and dug through snow to get white clover.

What blew me away this year was the new RR sugar beets. The deer are all over them, along with the RR soybeans, RR field corn, and clover. Winter sugar beet attraction is almost as good as sweetcorn. I am planting 3x more RR sugarbeets this summer, but noturnips/brassicas.

kansaswiderack

I assume by RR you mean roundup ready?

1sagittarius

yes.