Georgetown pine tree soil...what to plant

**mudflat** · 06-19-2021, 01:11 PM

First year trying to make food plots in GT county. Soil is sandy, pine trees and old stumps abound. I'm sure it needs lime and plenty of it, probably more than I'm willing to afford.

One club member says he plants soybeans and does nothing to the soil other than disc. They get 3in tall and the deer mow it down. Plants again when it gets gone and continues into November he said.

I need not the suggestion to get a soil sample, etc., As this is leased land and in 2 weeks it may become a clear-cut and all money/ effort wasted. A Google search says forage oats and wheat do good in low PH soil.

Anybody have success planting in low pH soil anything a deer likes to eat? Any similar situations? Corn is king on this property but looking for that extra Trump card.

**Big Time** · 06-19-2021, 01:32 PM

For the most part you can throw down however much fertilizer you wish to buy when you plant whatever seed you wish to plant. Soybeans can be had cheap if you can find some combine run beans. Or you can bush hog the grass every week or so. Deer like new growth on grass and keeping it bushhogged will keep deer on it. Not adding additional nutrients though but you can’t beat the cost.

**peedeeman** · 06-19-2021, 02:19 PM

Soybeans.

**Dawhoo** · 06-19-2021, 02:35 PM

I am confused by the question....you say you have high pH soil but it needs lime??? I am assuming you are just confused in that acidic means low pH

**mudflat** · 06-19-2021, 03:01 PM

Ive been called a dumbass before so I assume your correct. I am ass backwards.

**Palmetto Bug** · 06-19-2021, 03:11 PM

Soil samples are cheap and save you from wasting money on fertilizer you don't need.

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**wskinner** · 06-19-2021, 05:32 PM

There’s a reason it’s planted in pines.

**Tater** · 06-19-2021, 05:57 PM

Why bother, corn and lumber prices got you down?

**TennDan** · 06-19-2021, 06:29 PM

Plant cow peas instead of soy beans. If you want to spend money, plant clover after deer season or rotate in another nitrogen fixing legume.

**Buck70** · 06-20-2021, 08:17 AM

Wheat and oats. The deer will hammer it and cheap to replant.

**TheVisorGuy** · 06-20-2021, 08:56 AM

Cow peas. They will grow in concrete just about

**StrutnBPS** · 06-20-2021, 09:22 AM

If you have a good number of deer then you are just wasting your money on both soy beans and cow peas, unless you want to do like your buddy and replant every few weeks. Other than not doing a soil test, you are on the right track with rye, oats, and winter wheat. Just plant a mix of rye and oats and plant it THICK. You will have deer on it well after deer season has closed.

**Whackumstackum** · 06-20-2021, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by StrutnBPS

If you have a good number of deer then you are just wasting your money on both soy beans and cow peas, unless you want to do like your buddy and replant every few weeks. Other than not doing a soil test, you are on the right track with rye, oats, and winter wheat. Just plant a mix of rye and oats and plant it THICK. You will have deer on it well after deer season has closed.

Solid advice, most anything else is a waste of money unless you can fence it until the plot gets up. I’ve been planting oats and winter peas the last couple years at the end of September/first of October and letting it head out for the birds. I will bush got what’s left early in august. I don’t know a lot about killing deer though so take that for what it’s worth.

**mudflat** · 06-20-2021, 10:22 AM

I will probably go with soybeans and oats and replant as they eat it up.
Does anybody have a lead on soybeans, farmer has cleaned out his silo and is out?

**w33kender** · 06-20-2021, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by TennDan

Plant cow peas instead of soy beans. If you want to spend money, plant clover after deer season or rotate in another nitrogen fixing legume.

This right here.

**w33kender** · 06-20-2021, 11:42 AM

Cowpeas can recover from early browse better than soybeans.

**TheVisorGuy** · 06-20-2021, 11:43 AM

Yep

**StrutnBPS** · 06-20-2021, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by w33kender

Cowpeas can recover from early browse better than soybeans.

I'd love to have about 5 acres of cow peas. Mix of the red rippers and iorn/clay. Especially with something for them to run on like sun flowers or corn.