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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 381146" data-attributes="member: 4743">In 98 started with a garden tiller.  Sucks but did tear my rotary cup and now can use a crossbow.Today in plots I take care of use round up and trimix for chemical control.800 side by side Polaris, notch disk and 5-foot-wide harrow.  Sprayer on side by side.Plant roundup soybeans in spring by hand spreading and work in with 3-foot-wide notch disk.Used to plant corn, turnips and radish.  Great for ground and will dry out wet ground if need, moose love it but not the deer so now plant kale and rape.  Maybe canola and winter oats.  No corn due to stalks to ger rid of in spring.Plant brassicas, canola and winter oats in August by spreading by hand and then work in with disk pulled by 800 side by side. Get winter greens, cabbage and winter sugar beets from the whitetail institute and now and then something else they may have.  Try them all.If canola is flowering with first killing frost, they will eat all winter.Rain is great at seeding time.  Been bless for that.In time, son bought a three-point rotary tiller and JD 6 row planter.  Had access to a tractor.  This year a guy had a 5-foot-wide disk drill that he sold me for half price (2600).  Only one year old but was planting 20-acre plots and to small.  We plant about 10-12 acres total.  Has access to tractor so used rotary tiller to work ground and his side by side to pull drill.  Works well.  However, there are no press wheels on drill.  Plan is to purchase a piece of equipment to pull behind drill.  Not sure of name but they are a round tube that will work the ground and better place the seed in dirt.   I think.  Mix oats and brassicas together in box on drill.  Hope to retire the disk and use this drill to seed all.Come a long way since the garden tiller and I wish I could have what some have but not in the cards. Took time to get what we have.  Plan is to expand plots with white clover for permanent stand and the protein it has.  If you have clover growing wild does not work as good as if there is no clover in the area.And that is that happy farming and the deer will come and more in time as they are born by it and learn to live by it and eat there.  Trail cameras, no hunting posters, friendly neighbors that understand the concept of all of this and are willing to work together on this.  dbPlus, hay bales in winter.</blockquote>

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