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HELP: Spring Specific Seed For Food Plots
We are having a very warm winter in North-Central Florida. Temps have been in the mid-70's almost every afternoon; 25 degrees above normal. Normally we consider February our coldest month and January second coldest. Last frost date is normally March 15th. Not this year; we have experienced perhaps three light frosts since December. Everything is budding out. It appears Spring will arrive early. Heck, Spring may have arrived already.
(( But then.....February is the cruelest month.....))
Last Fall I planted ANTLER KING RED ZONE SEED MIX, ordered from amazon.com. Could not get the land prepared until October, then seeded but had no rain until December...at which time every seed germinated. I would consider my first effort moderately successful. I did not fertilize.
I want to seed for Spring in mid-to-late February assuming it continues warm.
How about recommendations for Spring Food Plot seeds? There are multiple choices for Fall; I have seen only one mix labelled for Spring planting.
I have two acres available, split up in several plots within the 40 acre common area of a 200 acre residential development with scant thirty homes at present. Most plot land has full sun, some ground has high open shade under hardwoods. Zone 8-B.
I am primarily interested in attracting deer but birds welcome too.
I have a Ratchet Rake on the FEL, a KK Rotary Harrow and an ETA Cultipacker.
We are having a very warm winter in North-Central Florida. Temps have been in the mid-70's almost every afternoon; 25 degrees above normal. Normally we consider February our coldest month and January second coldest. Last frost date is normally March 15th. Not this year; we have experienced perhaps three light frosts since December. Everything is budding out. It appears Spring will arrive early. Heck, Spring may have arrived already.
(( But then.....February is the cruelest month.....))
Last Fall I planted ANTLER KING RED ZONE SEED MIX, ordered from amazon.com. Could not get the land prepared until October, then seeded but had no rain until December...at which time every seed germinated. I would consider my first effort moderately successful. I did not fertilize.
I want to seed for Spring in mid-to-late February assuming it continues warm.
How about recommendations for Spring Food Plot seeds? There are multiple choices for Fall; I have seen only one mix labelled for Spring planting.
I have two acres available, split up in several plots within the 40 acre common area of a 200 acre residential development with scant thirty homes at present. Most plot land has full sun, some ground has high open shade under hardwoods. Zone 8-B.
I am primarily interested in attracting deer but birds welcome too.
I have a Ratchet Rake on the FEL, a KK Rotary Harrow and an ETA Cultipacker.
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