Planting Smartweed - GON Forum I found a supplier for smartweed seed and no this isn't Colorado smartweed I'm talking real Pennsylvania smartweed I'm planning on testing it out in three of my spots A farm pond, a beaver swamp and a low area that stays damp and floods when we have a big rain that holds duck when its
Food for ducks…. | Page 3 | GON Forum Toasted the last few acres of Smartweed seed today Had a good push of ducks overnight I didn't think you could manipulate for ducks such as burning or shredding?
Food for ducks…. | GON Forum Corn, Chiwappa,Golden, Jap, Chufa, Rice and some good looking byg and smartweed will provide plenty to eat for the ones that come Few pics from this evenings wind down lap and Sunday’s drone work
Question on potential duck hunting spot and water lilies covering pond I am not an expert at this, but if there are beavers then I understand a Clemson leveler might be a huge help It allows you to manipulate water level If you can lower the water and encourage moist soil grass like smartweed then during the season you'll have duck food
Food for ducks…. | Page 2 | GON Forum The result is literally tons of roasted smartweed seed sitting on a clean bottom 14 acre pond should be calf deep in the am Kept some holes “untouched” as well to see where the ducks show favor Three days ago we had 2 ducks on the farm Day before yesterday we picked up about 1,000 Mostly teal, with the majority being greenwings
Anybody plant for waterfowl? - GON Forum Smartweed is great around the edges, but is $16 00 lb once smartweed is started it's in there, but chances are it's already there Arrow arum is another native that divers especially can't resist
Anybody plant Chicory in the fall? - GON Forum But nutsedge, Horsenettle, mustards occasionally vervain or smartweed will overwhelm it It is frustrating to have to kill it when the deer have been eating it regularly, when last year it looked so good
Rice in georgia - GON Forum Like pastordoc said it isnt hard to grow get some good moist soil with plenty of sunlight and itll do fine But smartweed is a good choice too Most all dabblers love it and it is very easy to grow Im gonna plant rice in our 7-8 acre marsh this year hopefully will get too shoot some teal in there again
Planting rice for waterfowl - GON Forum twenty five ought six - Thanks for the info Looked at the website Looks like they have smartweed, rice, and wild rice May try some combo of the three and see what comes up Got to get my hands on the property first Just trying to think ahead southgalefty - Did you plant wild rice or regular? Did you prep the area or just broadcast seed?
Teal hunting on Lake Seminole - GON Forum Up until a couple of days ago the teal were in three finger slough on Lake Chehaw (it is a good part of my front yard), it "was" a lilly pad, along with smartweed and asiatic dayflower and various other vegetation filled backwater not to far up the flint from Seminole The reason I said was is because they lowered the lake starting this week for dam repair and dock repair, literally days after