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What grows in granite country hill country?
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01/20/17 03:02 AM
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Any of you with food plot experience in the hill country where it switches from limestone to granite? I'm curious as to your experience putting in plots.
Guess I can try various stuff this spring and see how it goes. Parts of my place are very "gravel" but there are also several areas that a spring feeds with pretty rich grasses.
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Re: What grows in granite country hill country?
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01/23/17 12:23 PM
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Hunted in Llano county for over 20 years. We used Madrid clover.
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Re: What grows in granite country hill country?
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01/23/17 01:24 PM
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Thanks for the input. Can I follow up by asking if you tried other stuff that didn't work? Oats, etc?
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Re: What grows in granite country hill country?
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01/23/17 08:35 PM
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Winter wheat would do ok, trouble was the deer didn't let it grow to much. Tried some of the pre-packaged store-bought stuff with mixed results, mostly poor results. The clover would come up to about 2" and the deer would mow it back down. By early June, it would die off. It would come back about 40% in the fall rains. We would usually just broadcast seed on top of the new growth each year around the end of the year.
We would mostly use places the hogs had dug up in their rooting for food plots. One of the best ways to get them to root where you'd like them to was to pour some of the milo syrup stuff on cactus. They'd eat the cactus one week then come back a root up all of the root system. You'd end up with a patch about 20'x20' or larger all dug up. No need for plows. Just sprinkle your seed and kick the dirt over.
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Re: What grows in granite country hill country?
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01/23/17 08:50 PM
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Hey Cameron we have similar soils in my part of Llano Co.
WMA members have had decent luck in the Spring with Iron & Clay Peas, Sorghum,and a Spring Wildlife Mix that had Soybeans, Millet, and other assorted seeds.
In the Fall usually Bob oats with Austrian Winter Peas do well as long as the plot is big enough to let them get established. Some have experimented with a Fall Wildlife Mix (Winter Wheat, Coker Oats, Rye Grass, Rapeseed, and Crimson Clover) which did ok.
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Re: What grows in granite country hill country?
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01/23/17 11:35 PM
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No idea how I'm gonna keep the deer off of it.
Short answer is that I probably won't.
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Re: What grows in granite country hill country?
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Thanks for the answers, guys.
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