How I Plant Food Plots Into Bad Soils

[@TheBack50]

Great information. I tried my hand at making food plots last fall and my inexperience and lack of proper equipment hurt my pocket. What advice would you give to someone who is in the rocky Missouri Ozark area? My soil samples say only my potassium in low. The other 2 were in the mid to good range.

[@johnlindsay8630]

Thanks for all the information

[@HobbyHarvest]

You bet!

[@karma8001]

Good video I do it also then get some dikon or tillage radish in there after a year or 2 they till the ground great. For your viewers don't mix the winter rye grain with the brassicas. Around here farmers are doing allot of cover cropping so our local seed stores get allot in

[@HobbyHarvest]

I typically do brassicas and fill in with daikon/tillage radish but I've never tried it in poor soils. That's definitely a better option than busting up your ground mechanically and mixing your good top layer back in. Thanks for adding that!

[@Alianderfarm]

Love it

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thanks!

[@rfb7117]

Do you prefer to spray the buckwheat with RU standing or after you have cultipacked it?

[@rfb7117]

I'm assuming you broadcast your buckwheat after spraying the RU. How do you get good soil to seed contact, do you plant the buckwheat after a rain, and possibly cultipack it? Great information....thanks, Bob

[@rfb7117]

Sorry one more question.....what is your rate of seeding the buckwheat and WR?

[@karma8001]

@rfb7117 u broadcast the buckwheat then you cultipack then the roundup. Want 2 save time cultipack and spray at the same time if you have the right boom on your sprayer

[@HobbyHarvest]

I spray after I crimp because you'll find that there's some native weeds much lower to the soil so you'll be able to get a spray on those if the buckwheat is knocked down already.

[@HobbyHarvest]

@@rfb7117 yeah, I wait until the soil under the standing buckwheat is soft, like after a rain. Then I press it in with a cultipacker or lawn roller filled with water. But ideally you're also seeding in front of a rain which will get that seed down in the soil as well.

[@MichiganRick]

Sounds like a Jeff Sturgis video...word for word....

[@Sandwichking-hikes]

I am desperately trying to improve my soil in my food plot area, it was bulldozed years ago with hard pan clay and erosion so no top soil. Was that way when I purchased. Getting a bit of growth but I figure will take a couple years building up more and more growth each year.

[@HobbyHarvest]

Keep working on it. It definitely can be done.

[@bowhunterloco8369]

Thank you for this video it was very helpful, just curious what you would recommend for a similar type of area but further south, Southern Missouri to be specific. Rocky, poor soil quality, and sometimes very hot and dry. Tons of great potential that's why it reminds me of the area you talk about in your video, but I'm just curious what alternatives to winter rye and buckwheat you would use down here? I've been told clover, but not sure. I do have good equipment and plenty of access. Thanks in advance

[@jeffpepin5930]

Do you recommend this same process for an established food plot that had brassicas and winter rye in last year. Should I be planting buckwheat in the summer? Soil ph was good last year but that’s with years of amending

[@stevegermain1222]

I have been subscribed a little while and really like the content , six and a half minutes dancing around the chemical issue at the beginning of the video was a bit much for me

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thanks for the feedback.