Yesterday Rol_P and Captain Cook helped me lime and seed two food plots for this fall and future years. One plot was on top of a hill by the "Shooting Hut" and the other was near the "Swamp Stand".
The first task was to get 1,300 pounds of lime, fertilizer, oat seed, and clover seed up the steep tractor road to the top of the hill. We split the load between the bucket on my tractor (Kubota L2350) which had the disk on it, and trailer attached to Caleb's WD45.
Here is Caleb and Roland going up the hill in 1st gear.
Once up on the hill, we emptied half the lime into the trailer. We did half of the lime at a time to better gauge how uniform our application rate was.
Prepping the Lime.
Here is half of the lime.
We applied the lime by shoveling from the trailer.
After disking the lime in we broadcast the fertilizer and fall "Forage Oats" seed by hand.
Then we disked the oats to cover the seeds.
Finally we spread the clover seed using a crank type seed spreader. The tiny clover seeds fall into the interstices of the disked soil and they "cover" when it rains. Which it did last evening.
The "Forage Oats" stay green until the ground freezes solid and provide a food attractant during the fall and early winter. The clover will provide food and nutrition for 4 to 5 years.
Although it was hot work yesterday, it was a good time shared with two buddies. Many thanks to them for their help.
Dan
The first task was to get 1,300 pounds of lime, fertilizer, oat seed, and clover seed up the steep tractor road to the top of the hill. We split the load between the bucket on my tractor (Kubota L2350) which had the disk on it, and trailer attached to Caleb's WD45.
Here is Caleb and Roland going up the hill in 1st gear.
Once up on the hill, we emptied half the lime into the trailer. We did half of the lime at a time to better gauge how uniform our application rate was.
Prepping the Lime.
Here is half of the lime.
We applied the lime by shoveling from the trailer.
After disking the lime in we broadcast the fertilizer and fall "Forage Oats" seed by hand.
Then we disked the oats to cover the seeds.
Finally we spread the clover seed using a crank type seed spreader. The tiny clover seeds fall into the interstices of the disked soil and they "cover" when it rains. Which it did last evening.
The "Forage Oats" stay green until the ground freezes solid and provide a food attractant during the fall and early winter. The clover will provide food and nutrition for 4 to 5 years.
Although it was hot work yesterday, it was a good time shared with two buddies. Many thanks to them for their help.
Dan
