MUDRUNNER Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 A little run down of my food plot last year.....we had a nice wet summer. I thought I would get my plots in early and spent early August tilling & liming. I planted oats and turnips in the middle of the month, and just my luck the rain shut down completely. Some germinated & grew, but it's very thin. The soil is still relatively loose. I'm thinking of mowing what is left down and frost seeding clover & chicory the middle of February. Anybody had luck with this? I want to take a break from fall/winter annuals for a while. All of the stuff the kids are into makes it hard to get up to the farm as much as I need to at the end of summer to mow, spray, till, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Not personally tried frost seeding but read some articles on it. Supposed to work fairly well, considered hitting some spots with chicory and clover in our existing clover plots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Yup it works great, ''TIMING" is key. make sure you get the seed on before the frost goes out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted January 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 I'm thinking middle of February should be good. I would guess that we have frost until early March, and usually have some snow in March also. I'll give it a shot. I suppose it couldn't hurt to pull the rotary hoe over it a few times to loosen the ground up a bit. It will be way easier for me to go up and fertilize and mow a few times a year than it is to do all the work that it takes to do annuals right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 We do in NE Missouri and we'll be frost seeding our clover mix this month. Besides the timing issue Martin said, make sure your seed can get in contact with the ground. The majority of our frost seeded plots come up fine but we have had to plant a few that, for whatever reason didn't produce much clover forage. For those we end up planting an annual to get through that fall. Out of 14 plots we frost seeded last year, 2 had to be planted in an annual. Those 2 plots stayed under flood waters too long causing us to loose most of the clover in those plots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 I had a free day Saturday and the weather was great so I headed up to the farm and got some work done. I drug the rotary hoe over the plot a few times planted some Evolved Harvest ProVide that I picked up for 50% off. Seed to soil contact should be pretty good. This is about a half an acre. The weather looks like it should work out for me the next few weeks. We have highs in the 30's and 40's and lows in the 20's the next 10 days, with a little rain and snow in the forecast. The topsoil should freeze and thaw pretty regularly, so hopefully it works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Here's a picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 Should be PERFECT!....update us later when you get back there to look at it. I would throw down some fertilizer when you go back. I cant frost seed here yet, until snow goes this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted April 13, 2016 Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 So how did the frost seeding go. I have had some great luck with frost seeding--especially small seeds like clover. My favorite is red clover. Frost seeds really well into a fall planted cereal grain. todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted April 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 I haven't had a chance to get back up check on it since I planted. I need to set a day aside to go up and fertilize it and move some stands. Man, I remember the days when I could just go whenever I wanted lol. Now it's track, baseball, softball, or soccer every day of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted April 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 I finally made it up to the farm yesterday. The food plot is looking pretty good. I need to head back up in a couple of weeks to mow and fertilize, but I'm pleased with it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 Wow! for frost seeding it took REALLY well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 dude--that looks awesome. great job todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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