I am an NC State Environmental Technology Grad (Undergrad and Masters) but this is entirely 100% a self taught hobby! RU-vid is just me sharing my experiences, costs me more than I make so that tells you I just enjoy the process
I been seeing that some people had bad germination with the Eagle seed clearfields. I plant the Lonesome Dove clearfield from Seed ranch. Have for 4 years and always have good luck. I can buy 5 lbs for about $70 or so and it's enough for 1 acre planting on rows.
Great to know! I paid $150 for 10lbs so that's about the same. Might switch it up! Or say fuc it on the sunflowers and go to all millet. So much easier
It would have to be incorporated into the soil some how, i.e disc, till etc. and I am afraid that would damage what is trying to come in. Plus, the timing would be too late to dry out of the doves I think. Learning year! I can always "plant wheat" the week before the season comes in
Forgot to mention, we spread fertilizer all through that back millet field before we drilled the sunflowers playing around with that planter. Put 100lbs of N back there.
Checked my sunflower field today. No deer tracks, but not a lot of sunflowers either. I just have big patches where nothing came up. Oh well, we'll just have to see what happens. I need to go out there Tuesday and spray the post emergent as the weeds are starting to pop up now.
We’ve had a lot of rain and heat in Alabama and our broadcasted sunflowers are doing great. I’ve wanted a planter to do them in rows for years now, but I’m content with how great it’s working broadcast seeding. Light disk, cultipack, and apply pre emergents seem to work great here. I think deer density is less around my parts, so knock on wood predation hasn’t been an issue. I left some strips of clover between the sunflowers this year to drive the atv up and down and apply herbicides. It seemed to work great. Sunflower strips are just wide enough to cover with the spray gun.
I have not done a specific video on that, I should! I am pretty sure that is 3/8" braided steel cable like they use for powerline supports. Not coated. Bored holes, ran the cable through and then anchored to the ground. Poles were a beast to stand up, had to use the tractor and loader and cut the poles down to about 20ft
