Food plot is set for the season and new blind is ready!
Alright, we are 4 weeks from opening day of rifle season here in Texas, and I have everything ready. I went out to the lease on Sunday afternoon during the first major rain in over 6 months! Finally got my Polaris "muddy".
On Friday, my buddy Mark and his friend Gary took a tractor and brush hog and cut down my field at a finishing cut length, which looked fantastic. On Sunday, when I got there I took my new harrow, dragged it over the field with the needles down to really scratch the wet, muddy dirt/sand mixture. It was a lot muddier than I thought. I believed it was primarily sand, but the amount of soil is quite surprising and a pleasant one at that. After that it was seeding time. I used the Whitetail Institute - Imperial Whitetail Extreme seed and that covered half of my field. The other half I covered with Evolved Harvest Throw & Grow. Both of these I picked up at Gander Mountain. Now it was time to fertilize. I picked up a lime/fertilizer mixture from Gander made by Biologic but I can't remember the exact name. I spread this over both sides of the field. Lastly, I flipped over the harrow to smooth the field and ensure the seeds had a solid contact with the ground. All the while the rain continued to fall. It was more of a heavy drizzle at this point, which helped quite a bit.
For the seed, I was using a hand spreader, but for the fertilizer I used a Scotts Speedygreen spreader... this basically sucked and justified a future purchase of a 4-wheeler spreader or something...
The end results:
In this last picture, you can see my new Shadow Hunter 4x6 2-man blind. This thing is awesome. I can't wait to take the kids with me to see "what happens".
Now, let's just make time pass quicker!!!
On Friday, my buddy Mark and his friend Gary took a tractor and brush hog and cut down my field at a finishing cut length, which looked fantastic. On Sunday, when I got there I took my new harrow, dragged it over the field with the needles down to really scratch the wet, muddy dirt/sand mixture. It was a lot muddier than I thought. I believed it was primarily sand, but the amount of soil is quite surprising and a pleasant one at that. After that it was seeding time. I used the Whitetail Institute - Imperial Whitetail Extreme seed and that covered half of my field. The other half I covered with Evolved Harvest Throw & Grow. Both of these I picked up at Gander Mountain. Now it was time to fertilize. I picked up a lime/fertilizer mixture from Gander made by Biologic but I can't remember the exact name. I spread this over both sides of the field. Lastly, I flipped over the harrow to smooth the field and ensure the seeds had a solid contact with the ground. All the while the rain continued to fall. It was more of a heavy drizzle at this point, which helped quite a bit.
For the seed, I was using a hand spreader, but for the fertilizer I used a Scotts Speedygreen spreader... this basically sucked and justified a future purchase of a 4-wheeler spreader or something...
The end results:
In this last picture, you can see my new Shadow Hunter 4x6 2-man blind. This thing is awesome. I can't wait to take the kids with me to see "what happens".
Now, let's just make time pass quicker!!!
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