Yeah, they're a beautiful wildflower. I wouldn't care to have them in my field if they weren't so dang aggressive.

Good deal!.....Look forward to hearing how it turns out.

“Dynamic Accumulators”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_accumulator

Be sure to notice the nettles and dandelion.

http://oregonbd.org/accumulators/

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I'll post after pics tomorrow. It started raining when I was finishing up. Put I/c peas and milo down before weed eating for 4 hrs. Like they say where there's a will there's a way today was the stihl way. Going to spray tomorrow to kill the new green that was under the rye, wheat and oats. I'm a whooped puppy.

Damn, it was hot today too. That makes me want a beer just lookin at the pics. Nice job. Hopefully we'll get some follow up showers in the next few days to keep everything moist for awhile. Look forward to the updates.

Here’s another plant to add to the list of species in the field being browsed. This one has the potential for being rabbits or deer...not sure. Something is browsing the hell out of it though. I haven’t kept count but this should put us close to a dozen or more different plants so far that have been identified in the field as being moderately to heavily browsed upon.

Florida pusley………..I’m pretty sure on this ID but if someone thinks differently please speak up.



This is a repeat but I’d like to get an ID on it if someone knows what its called. Its getting absolutely hammered but easily holding its on and putting out new growth.

As per my friend, those are beauty berry bushes. He says that as long as they are kept low they will eat them heavily. If they grow up, they will have berries on them.

Good guess but I’m pretty sure it’s not beautyberry. Below is a pic of beautyberry….which I will add is rarely ever browsed. The plant in question has a really woody stem like a twig on a tree. I suspect it might eventually grow into a small shrub-like plant.

Beautyberry…….

I've seen deer eat French Mulberry every place I've ever been.

Looks too high to be teaweed. I have always wanted to try and cultivate teaweed.

One more pic of the plant in question. You can see in this pic what I mean about it having twiggy stems and being shrub like.

BTM is one of the easiest plants to grow, using this method. I've grown it several times.

Here’s a plant that’s coming into the field that the deer are not eating on but I’m still glad to see it. It’s one of our NWSG’s, though I can’t tell you for sure which one. I'll have to research it a little more. I’ve actually got a good bit coming into the other parts of my understory now. It’ll be head high or better “sedge” by the end of summer. I’m just using that as a general term. This is a much more wildlife friendly grass component than crabgrass. The rabbits seem to like it for cover.

Here’s what that grass looks like at maturity. Big bluestem? Little bluestem? Other?

Hopefully I get rain today. We've been rained all around all week but received less than a 1/4 inch at the house.

Broomsedge, i think little bluestem. It only gets about waist high at my place. Only grows where ph is low, or so i've been told. A cattle rancher told me once he got his ph up, it disappeared.

Same thing here. I've had massive storms right on my doorstep but only got enough to just barely wet the ground. I hope I get something substantial today. It's dry.

That makes sense. The pH for most of my property is likely going to be really low. We'll see what happens with it in the food plot. There's not a whole lot right now.

Finally my turn to get some of that good rain. Been coming down pretty steady here for the last several hours. Nothing really heavy, just a good slow soaker. Field should really make a jump in the next week putting a canopy over most of the field.

Also figured out what our mystery shrub is called from a couple pics back…..It’s teaweed or prickly sida. I’m caging off some of it so it’ll produce more seed. This is an ideal addition to my summer plot.



http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr168


“The crude protein of teaweed averaged 24.5%, with 76% total digestible nutrients. Even on areas not fertilized, teaweed had over 16% crude protein. On an additional site, teaweed plants also responded to applications of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Each 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer raised the crude protein content of teaweed about 3% (Figure 2). Total digestible nutrients remained about 75% at all levels of fertilization.”

One more link on the Teaweed or Sweet Tea.......

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