Wow. 8 weeks since planting and actually going on more like 9 at the end of the weekend. Despite the lack of rain, its a jungle. And i was worried about overgrazing....paleaze! Now i would wish it would get eaten to the ground. I only have a few deer coming out at night and they still seem to prefer the clover. I dont know why they are not attracted to the beans/peas/lablab. The sorghum is starting to form its seedheads and from what i hear...these become deer candy in mid October. Now I'm at a cross roads as I begin to think about fall planting. Last year, it was a great turnip/rape patch and was smoking during the rut with deer activity. I have that seed left over and would love to do the turnips again. However, I dont want to just nuke all of this that has grown quite well. If the deer dont eat it to the ground, I may cut rows with a weed wacker and plant the turnips no till into the rows. In a perfect world, the deer need to just eat this plot to the ground. So here she is,
Clover went dormant from the heat but hanging in there.
Sorghum forming seed heads and the lablab vining up the stalks.
Feel free to correct me for I am no expert, but i believe this to be the IC Cowpeas.
And this is lablab. This stuff grew great but I only found a bit of it was browsed. Any ideas if this stuff becomes more preferred to deer later in the summer?
This is some of the soybeans left in the understory. It is recovering from the abuse of the ground hogs.
And then this is the chicory i threw down in the clover patch about 8 weeks ago when i put down the powerplant. Its doing good but i cant tell if the deer like it. I will put more down in the fall season for next year.
And the sunflowers, well not too many are surviving and the few i did find are recovering from being browsed. No flowers even starting on them.
Thanks for taking a look and feel free to comment and give me ideas on what to do with it for the fall.

Clover went dormant from the heat but hanging in there.

Sorghum forming seed heads and the lablab vining up the stalks.

Feel free to correct me for I am no expert, but i believe this to be the IC Cowpeas.

And this is lablab. This stuff grew great but I only found a bit of it was browsed. Any ideas if this stuff becomes more preferred to deer later in the summer?

This is some of the soybeans left in the understory. It is recovering from the abuse of the ground hogs.

And then this is the chicory i threw down in the clover patch about 8 weeks ago when i put down the powerplant. Its doing good but i cant tell if the deer like it. I will put more down in the fall season for next year.

And the sunflowers, well not too many are surviving and the few i did find are recovering from being browsed. No flowers even starting on them.
Thanks for taking a look and feel free to comment and give me ideas on what to do with it for the fall.