Gadestroyer74
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That’s fantastic ! Nice for you to share
Beautiful set up! That’s the way I like to setup some of my plots the deer feel safe and protected in that stuff and have a heap of food to eat
Passer, How big is that plot?
That’s a heckuva setup. I had one very similar ona piece of ground I hunted. It has sawtooth oaks also. I had soybeans surrounded by corn saw tooth on the left edge then planted wheat oats and rye grain around the edge of that and under sawtooths. To the right in a small plot through the woods opening was a clover plot.. heck with what you got there no need to leave that to go to the woods ! LolIt’s right at 3.5 acres of open ground, but I plant the winter mix out under the trees on the perimeter too, so call it 4. It would be a touch more, but I have a grove of sawtooth oaks planted on the far left edge of the photo to square things up some for spraying.
You can’t plant beans until the soil temp remains in the low 60s. April is too early. Little to no germinationI think the key to small bean plots is to plant them in the spring in April and at production ag seeding rates. Corn seed is expensive but so is clover seed but clover has more benefits. The nice thing about soybeans are that they are cheap enough to plant and if the deer wipe them out your out very little in seed costs.
I usually plant my beans and corn end of mayYou can’t plant beans until the soil temp remains in the low 60s. April is too early. Little to no germination
I planted this corn in northern ga. It was round up ready and I sprayed it with gly after it was up 8 to 10 inches. Didn’t have no weed problem. If you plant corn to late depending on the area it can not fully matureI always try to make myself wait later than normal on corn. I usually can’t stand it and plant too early anyway. Over the past three summers we’ve had eight, then six, then seven weeks consecutively without rain in the summer staring late May or June. If you don’t make a nice stand of corn in the early, cool, moist time you’re in trouble. I need to just absolutely make myself wait until we hit the summer rain pattern and then plant. Otherwise, weeds go bananas in August and September with the sunlight breaking through the mature corn plants to the ground. With my irritated plots I can go anytime, but the dry land ones are tough.
I always try to make myself wait later than normal on corn. I usually can’t stand it and plant too early anyway. Over the past three summers we’ve had eight, then six, then seven weeks consecutively without rain in the summer staring late May or June. If you don’t make a nice stand of corn in the early, cool, moist time you’re in trouble. I need to just absolutely make myself wait until we hit the summer rain pattern and then plant. Otherwise, weeds go bananas in August and September with the sunlight breaking through the mature corn plants to the ground. With my irritated plots I can go anytime, but the dry land ones are tough.
April is not too early unless you are up in the mountains, they will germinate at a soil temperature of 55F, they will even start germinating with 50f soil temps but take 3 weeks to come up. If you can't get soybeans up in April it's because the seed is of poor quality.You can’t plant beans until the soil temp remains in the low 60s. April is too early. Little to no germination
April is not too early unless you are up in the mountains, they will germinate at a soil temperature of 55F, they will even start germinating with 50f soil temps but take 3 weeks to come up. If you can't get soybeans up in April it's because the seed is of poor quality.[/QUOTE
Certainly don’t want to argue about something as trivial as planting seeds, but it’s a proven fact that soybean germination is poor with cool soil temps. My number one priority with planting is rain, but for spring/summer planting, soil temps are next. In a perfect world, the soil is warm and wet, so my beans come blasting out of the ground and canopy quickly to shade out weeds and hopefully outgrow early browse pressure.
If you planted in 50 degree soil temp in April and it took 3 weeks to get them out of the ground, they sat there and didn’t germinate until the soil temp increased.
Where do you live that the soil temp is 50F in April? Because even above the fall line in Fort Valley the average soil temp is well above 50 even in March. Even cotton as small seeded can be planted in April and its far more temperature sensitive than soybeans. A soybean can actually tolerate soil temps down to 35F if its after it has imbibed its water for germination.Certainly don’t want to argue about something as trivial as planting seeds, but it’s a proven fact that soybean germination is poor with cool soil temps. My number one priority with planting is rain, but for spring/summer planting, soil temps are next. In a perfect world, the soil is warm and wet, so my beans come blasting out of the ground and canopy quickly to shade out weeds and hopefully outgrow early browse pressure.
If you planted in 50 degree soil temp in April and it took 3 weeks to get them out of the ground, they sat there and didn’t germinate until the soil temp increased.