not an expert, have you fertilized them? Did you get any of the big rains. What did you plant?

 

I'm not worried about all that stuff. The plot was limed, disced, fertilized, seeded and cultipacked. It's Tecomate Chicory and Ultra Forage.

I'm simply asking if heavy dew in the AM is enough moisture in periods of no rain to keep a plot growing.

 

My plots are done. Destroyed. Fineato.

The smallest was ate to the ground and choked by weeds and fried by the sun. My best plot was partial ate down and burned the rest of the way. The big plot has received no rain since I planted it. I am really upset by this. I was hoping for some real rain this week so I could get some lime and fetilizer out with some extra seed and see what went down. But it looks like I wasted alot of time, energy, and money.

 

Wow, man, that's no good at all. So far, our Ultra Forage has not been browsed, but that is "so far." We also planted a large enough area that it might be able to withstand some grazing (hopefully). Yours looked awesome, too.

Here is the latest photo of ours:

 

I put a small plot w/ Prograze (Turnips,chicory,clover) Aug 5. Its doing surprisingly well. A few does and a couple young bucks are hitting it right now.

 

Wow, man, that's no good at all. So far, our Ultra Forage has not been browsed, but that is "so far." We also planted a large enough area that it might be able to withstand some grazing (hopefully). Yours looked awesome, too.

Here is the latest photo of ours:

To answer you question directly cream, We have a similar situation, S. O., lack of rain. My pops planted purple top turnips and peas in two seperate locations. Now the turnip patch is lower lying than the peas and has a pretty shear cliff running along side, like and long thin plateau. It seems to get heavier dew than the peas and the turnips are flourishing while the peas not so good. Also I think it has to do with the peas getting more direct sunlight, thus burning off the dew quicker, unlike the turnips that stay dewy for several hours more. I think that the more dew you have and the longer amount off time to lay and moisten the ground is better, but obviously no substitute for rain. I hope this helps and isn't just pointless ramblings.

 

Thanks, stumphole. I was just curious if the dew helps much. We got a little bit of rain yesterday on ours, but we'd like a lot more!

 

We got a good 3-4 hrs. of rain today down here in Southern Ohio . I am glad b-c the deer are eating my small plot down to the dirt. They have eaten all of the brassica off the stems and due to the lack of rain, it is not growing back very quick. So yesterday, i planted a few turnips and fertilized my plot, hoping it would rain soon, and luckily it rained the next day (today). We really needed the rain down here!!!!!! Hope you got some of the rain TheCream!

 

Heavy dew is good. Unless the sun comes up too hot too fast and then it'll help burn it. But dew is bettter than nothing. And some of you who think your plots are lost, you may find they'll come back when you do get a good rain. maybe not to the same degree as when they 1st came up, but if they had a few inches of growth, the roots may be able to restart. (provided they were perennials)I had a small area that I thought was completely lost and it came back!!

 

Awesome bucks Cream!!!