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Post by antiwheeze on Jan 19, 2018 18:56:49 GMT -5
By November deer in our food plot could see cars on the busy road. Just wanted to know about about anyone's experience planting Egyptian wheat to screen with. I hoping more daytime deer visits will occur to the food plot if the deer can't see cars whizzing by.
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Post by swilk on Jan 19, 2018 19:23:07 GMT -5
Never done it but as soon as a read the title Egyptian wheat is what came to mind.
Maybe hybrid poplar for a long term solution?
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Post by esshup on Jan 19, 2018 23:58:28 GMT -5
Or Arborvitae?
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 19, 2018 23:58:31 GMT -5
Hybrid poplar
If you have really wet soil hybrid willows.
Or some conifers of some sort would be my choice.
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Post by antiwheeze on Jan 20, 2018 7:33:52 GMT -5
Hybrid poplar If you have really wet soil hybrid willows. Or some conifers of some sort would be my choice. Long term solution will be pines, unless we change our minds. We will likely have some volunteer cedar pop up also. I'm thinking the professional forester would frown on the introduction of non-native species such as hybrid poplar. She was not fond of a couple of Bradford pears; not was she fond of honeysuckle and autumn olive. Good thing deer like it! |
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Post by duff on Jan 20, 2018 7:45:22 GMT -5
Those hybred poplars would not be my choice.
I would stick with tall grasses vs any tree but if you are leaning towards trees use guards around young trees
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Post by throbak on Jan 20, 2018 9:27:48 GMT -5
If your in southern Indiana look no further get Alamo Switchgrass , it does real good I use it works for me real good
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 20, 2018 12:04:50 GMT -5
Hybrid poplar If you have really wet soil hybrid willows. Or some conifers of some sort would be my choice. Long term solution will be pines, unless we change our minds. We will likely have some volunteer cedar pop up also. I'm thinking the professional forester would frown on the introduction of non-native species such as hybrid poplar. She was not fond of a couple of Bradford pears; not was she fond of honeysuckle and autumn olive. Good thing deer like it! Bradford pear honey suckle and autumn olive are highly invasive. I I don’t think the hybrid willows are invasive and pretty sure a lot are sterile. But you’d have to talk to a forester or someone that knew a lot more about stuff than me to be sure. |
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Post by esshup on Jan 20, 2018 17:01:05 GMT -5
Bradford Pears are very brittle too, and will grow above effective screen level.
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Post by HuntMeister on Jan 20, 2018 18:53:12 GMT -5
If your in southern Indiana look no further get Alamo Switchgrass , it does real good I use it works for me real good What's the scoop on planting / growing Alamo throbak? Is it an easy one or more involved to get it to go good? |
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Post by throbak on Jan 20, 2018 22:27:14 GMT -5
I drill it real shallow 1/4 in or less you can frost seed Too Main thing good clean seed bed and not to deep All SG has a high dormancy so Patience , Patience, Patience
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Post by HuntMeister on Jan 21, 2018 10:38:49 GMT -5
If frost seeding, how many pounds per acre would you suggest?
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Post by steiny on Jan 21, 2018 14:15:38 GMT -5
Planted a strip of Egyptian wheat this year and was quite impressed by the screen wall it made. Held up well all through season, but it's beat down pretty good now after lots of snow ice and rain.
Was very easy, just tilled a strip about ten feet wide, hand spread the seed and rolled it in with the atv tires. After it came up I went back twice and hit it with pelletized nitrogen to give it a kick, worked great.
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Post by antiwheeze on Jan 21, 2018 14:38:47 GMT -5
Planted a strip of Egyptian wheat this year and was quite impressed by the screen wall it made. Held up well all through season, but it's beat down pretty good now after lots of snow ice and rain. Was very easy, just tilled a strip about ten feet wide, hand spread the seed and rolled it in with the atv tires. After it came up I went back twice and hit it with pelletized nitrogen to give it a kick, worked great. Any particular brand? When did u plant? Did it last till December? How well did it work for you? More daylight deer sightings? |
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Post by steiny on Jan 22, 2018 11:42:59 GMT -5
Any particular brand? Don't remember, but ordered it online from Deer Creek Seed. When did u plant? Late May Did it last till December? Yep, it was 8'-10' tall, since beaten down by weather it's still 3'-4' tall. How well did it work for you? More daylight deer sightings? Yep, they like to travel right along the edge of it. |
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Post by throbak on Jan 22, 2018 13:24:41 GMT -5
Antiwheeze : Go with the Alamo It will get laid down to the dirt and when snow melts it’s right back up you have a screen Year round the new growth comes up between the old and its NATIVE Im in Switzerland/Jefferson county line For the spotlighters its like shining in a mirror
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 22, 2018 13:31:07 GMT -5
 This is Alamo pic taken on feb 22 |
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Post by esshup on Jan 22, 2018 15:13:57 GMT -5
throbak, where is a good place to get it? I'd have to order and have it shipped. How many pounds per acre? I'd be most likely trying to spray/till to get more exposed dirt and hand seeding as early in the year as possible. The area that it's needed has some WSG in it already, but too much other junk.
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Post by swilk on Jan 22, 2018 21:56:29 GMT -5
I've got an acre or so of Cave-In-Rock switchgrass....frost seeded it about 8 years ago and it did well.
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 23, 2018 9:11:02 GMT -5
throbak, where is a good place to get it? I'd have to order and have it shipped. How many pounds per acre? I'd be most likely trying to spray/till to get more exposed dirt and hand seeding as early in the year as possible. The area that it's needed has some WSG in it already, but too much other junk. I think he uses Hamilton |
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