Meatball Farming

I put in a food plot yesterday.

Having killed the grass and weeds about three weeks ago with a 6% solution of glyphosate I disced-up the strip in preparation for planting.

Not much science to this.  Which is why it's called meatball farming.

Disc, disc disc.  Broadcast seeds, fertilize the heck out of it (19-19-19 from the Door County Co-Op), disc it again and drive over it with the big, fat, tractor tires to create a good seed to soil contact.

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Pray for rain.

I planted 30 pounds of seed - much of it free, second-hand stock.  Grain sorghum, corn, buckwheat, millet and sunflower.  The plan is to leave all of this grain stand over the winter to feed the resident birds.

Hope I have adequate germination to make it all worthwhile.