Sunday, August 30, 2009

Rape & Oats - update

This is what happens when you have proper PH, good rain, and mix together oats and rape. The deer are in this nightly.



You can really see the oats here. They do die off after frost, but are a great fall attracter.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Rape for the fall hunting season

Well I'm really happy with the rape so far. I put this down July 28 and added 50# of oats as a cereal grain first. I put down 100# of 19-19-19 and we had 3 days of rain after. I was concerned about too much rain, but my soil is somewhat light, and drains well. It looks great.




Here's another shot.