Turnip Food Plots For Deer
Applying the right type and amount of fertilizer is crucial to the success and productivity of your turnip food plots.
Turnip food plots for deer. Turnips are a cool season annual that are extremely high in protein and highly digestible to deer. This high production makes turnips excellent for planting in small food plots. Everything you need to know about food plot. Purple top turnips in your food plots will not disappoint.
In areas with quality food sources deer typically don t hit them very hard until mid october to early november. Even though turnips are about 20 protein they re easily digestible for deer. Time to plant your turnips and fix deer food plots jul 15 2015 jul 15 2015. The key factor to remember with turnips while deer will begin eating them as early as germination don t expect peak consumption during the early season.
Personally i ve never had real good success in attracting or holding deer on a plot with turnips but it s. Brassicas are used by farmers and food plotters to suppress weeds and to reduce soil pathogens. A well managed food plot of turnips can yield more than 8 tons of forage per acre. The incredible edible economical purple top turnip.
Turnips have a great slightly sweet flavor. In addition to the fact that deer love the taste of turnips they re high in protein so they re very beneficial to the deer. Hancock s fall winter food plot seed mix hancock s fall winter food plot seed mix is currently a pre. They are easy to grow and mange and provide a great crop for deer to browse throughout the fall hunting season and winter months.
Protein content can range from 15 to 20 percent in both the leaves and the roots. Brassica greens blockhead booby and just plain turnip are a few of the names that i ve heard the purple top turnip called before. Purple top white globe turnips for deer food plots are the same as you would buy in the grocery store and much fresher. Just pull up the turnip cut off the surface layer with a pocket knife cut into slices like an apple and enjoy.
My favorite way to eat them is raw right in the field. Deer will eat the e. They are a great starter crop when first experimenting with food plots and are a wonderful addition to previously established plots that are thinning out. Pasja turnip seed is great for deer food plots.
Mustard for instance is used to reduce damaging nematodes by exuding chemicals that kill these pests. Basically a deer like at a turnip the same way us humans look at beef jerky. When should i plant turnips and radishes for deer. Most brassicas are attractive because of one thing.