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04-13-2005, 06:25 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Delhi, NY (by way of Chenango Forks)
Posts: 1,706
RE: Looking for some help - NY food plots
You should be ok if you get the pH to 5.8-6 (higher (6.2 or so) is better, but clovers will tolerate 6.0. peletalized lime will work fine (actually works better, because it react quicker than regular lime). only downside - it's more expensive.
good luck
good luck
04-13-2005, 09:06 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
Posts: 2,973
RE: Looking for some help - NY food plots
Jaydog -
doughboysigep gave you some good advice on the lime.
The plots you are planting are a good thing. Event the WORST clearing plot is better than an open floor forest for the deer.
You will probably find that it will take a couple of years to get the Ph in the mid 6's in NY (unless its sand).
Extreme is a good choice for Year #1 - use it as an anmual - and re-work the soil for year #2 (and maybe #3) before you plant a perennial clover plot.
Till in the cuttings (or let it build up) - you need to increase the organic tilth of the soil.
Oats, buckwheat, rye and winter wheat are all good First Year ( and maybe second year) plots. Their roots go deep and the organinc production offers food for the deer - and "content" to the soil.
FH
doughboysigep gave you some good advice on the lime.
The plots you are planting are a good thing. Event the WORST clearing plot is better than an open floor forest for the deer.
You will probably find that it will take a couple of years to get the Ph in the mid 6's in NY (unless its sand).
Extreme is a good choice for Year #1 - use it as an anmual - and re-work the soil for year #2 (and maybe #3) before you plant a perennial clover plot.
Till in the cuttings (or let it build up) - you need to increase the organic tilth of the soil.
Oats, buckwheat, rye and winter wheat are all good First Year ( and maybe second year) plots. Their roots go deep and the organinc production offers food for the deer - and "content" to the soil.
FH
04-15-2005, 07:00 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,149
RE: Looking for some help - NY food plots
Jaydog i know this would be a long drive, the 20th there having a seminar in jamestown , on food plots---- thats april 20th . I'll try to give you more info but its friday night fish fry to many of you no what. I'll give you more info tommrow. Rich
