hunter 85
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I should have said no way to use a disc as my cart barely has enough power to get around with two people in itThat would be quite a bit to haul down in his woods with no 4 wheeler.
I would recommend a wheelbarrow!
I should have said no way to use a disc as my cart barely has enough power to get around with two people in itThat would be quite a bit to haul down in his woods with no 4 wheeler.
I would recommend a wheelbarrow!
IM not too young no more and have a golf cart so I will be getting it as close as I can in my truck and running it back in with my wife and cart but if I can fit it I may try to get 50 bags to put out cause if it is to much lime than what is really needed I don’t think it will hurt will it but I’m pretty sure anything will be better than nothing
Also how do y’all go about doing the samples other than the 35$ kit off of amazon
Thank you I will definitely look into the dragCan you get the golf cart down to your foodplots? Here why I am asking and again this is just a substitution for what you really need to be doing; however, since you have so little equipment and are looking at hours of backbreaking work I am going to suggest it anyway. Your golf cart should be able to pull a drag similar to the one I am posting on here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/V-4x4-Drag...248251&hash=item283838b000:g:01IAAOSwz71ZSnw9
This is a tines up/tines down arena rake. You can roll it up and put it on the back of your cart or you can just leave it dragging behind but make sure it's tines up if you do that to get to your foodplot. Once you are at the foodplot simply put it tines down and go up and down the foodplot with the drag tines down behind the cart a few times to loosen the soil and remove small debris, then I would throw a fast acting lime such as dolomite, in either powder or pellet, I like powder but it can be a pain to throw out but you have small plots so you might not mind that or you may want to go pellet form to be easier on you. This will not hurt your seeds that you are about to plant but it is also not a long term fix for your lime situation, you will have to get that figured out and work on your soil once you get your soil report; however, this method of liming will give your seeds a bump to start the growing process. Then plant your seeds after you throw the lime and go over them with the tines up on the drag and that will cover them and save you a ton of hurt and time tilling the soil to get it going. I used this method when I first started doing foodplots 15 years ago and it still works today, especially in pine forest lanes. Now that process will really only work well with small seeds like the ones I mentioned in my earlier post as you need to get those larger seeds like soybeans and cow peas deeper into the soil. Fertilize as I stated earlier and what should happen is the millet will act as ground cover for the clover and buckwheat, with the buckwheat coming up faster than the clover and giving your deer something to feed on while the clover and millet mature, then after three months the millet will mature and die but it should leave you with a beautiful stand of alyce clover for your deer to feed on until the first frost. Come fall if you still don't have equipment you can top dress the Alyce with crimson, rape, cereal rye or any other small seed, as well as winter wheat without having to till it all up to re-seed. The hope would be that by the time the alyce clover dies your other seeds should have taken hold and given you a great fall foodplot. This will give you 1 to 1 1/2 years to hopefully get the equipment needed to do a more thorough job on your plots going forward. BTW, first thing I would get is an ATV....can do allot more with an ATV than a golf cart in regards to foodplots. Good Luck!!