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Looks like a turkey alley for sure. Gil

Stan,

That is beautiful. I know that the critters appreciate what you do for them.

I have a couple of small plots that I plant over here in Texas, but my preparation and planting is kind of hit and miss. Mow, disc, plant, fertilize, harrow, and hope for some rain.

More often that not, it seems, that the rain comes about a month late and the birds have eaten all the seed. I never see a lot of growth, but I think it gets eaten before it has a chance to grow.

How do you keep the critters from cropping it down to the dirt? Or, do you have enough forage that they cannot get it all?

HHH

Keep in mind that there are fields of corn, cotton and peanuts all over the area, HH. The deer feed on them all summer, and continue to feed in the peanut and corn fields even after harvest. They would rather eat acorns than this green stuff I plant, and all this combined lets the green fields get started. The green fields grow anytime the temps are above 40 degrees, so it stays ahead of them. Trees are budding early this year, and they browse that as soon as they start putting out.

I've got 6 acres of your Texas native sunflowers planted, awaiting soil temps to warm enough to germinate them. I'm hoping to get a perennial dove planting established. The seed man in Texas that I ordered the seed from last fall told me the odds were against me getting them established, as they don't do as well in our sandy loam soil, according to him. I'm trying it anyway. One of the most attractive things about them for me is that deer do not eat them at all. That I've got too see to believe. If they'll eat cotton plants I can't imagine there is much they won't. We'll soon see.

Thanks, SRH

Looks like heaven....but also a predators buffet.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing

currently just south of donalsonville, ga...country round here looks like dat...spring is springin!