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Fishbonker

Fishbonker

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I’m sitting here with a squishy oozy feeling in my shorts. I just looked at the price of a gallon of Beyond. I looked at the price of a gallon of Beyond because I thought it would be neat to grow a plot of sunflowers but no way can I justify 560 bucks for a few sunflowers. A gallon would last several years but the upfront cost is a killer. I haven’t even found the price of a bag of Clearfield NuSun sunflower seeds and I think if I did I’d mess ‘em again.
Are there any alternatives to weed control in sunflowers other than Clearfield with Beyond?
 
The thought crossed my mind but the real reason is I don't wanna mow, or better put, I don't want my wife to mow so much "yard" but she is resistant to putting in RR beans or corn but sunflowers are, well flowers and she would be OK with me planting a plot of sunnies as long as I could keep the weeds outta them. She considers where I wanna put my plots as her yard to keep mowed and looking nice. I consider the areas as adding three hours to her mowing time and we would be better served with a food plot of some kind not only for deer but all wildlife in the winter. I wanted RR milo but I guess there isn't such a critter. The wife was OK with milo after I told her it is really sorguhm the stuff molassas is made out of and it has a pretty stock and head. "Oh you mean like ornamental millet?" "Yes dear, just like that." As I crossed my fingers.

Bottom line I want to plant something unusual for the area and that I can keep the weeds out if and is realtively inexpensive.
 
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Sligh1 said:
How about planting a wild flower mix or a native grass and wild flower mix? Can find from Pheasants forever or Osenbaughs, etc. Wouldn't have to replant and all the flowers and native grasses are super great to look at and for birds, butterflies, etc.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but you are missing my point. I wanna play in the dirt like you, Dbltree and others do but I have to do it on a microplot basis AND I have to keep the wife and the budget happy. I am under no delusions that planting microplots will attract more deer, promote antler growth or fawn recruitment. I just want to make some relatively inexpensive plots that I can keep weed free, look good and keep me outta the penalty box.


While wild flowers would be nice, they are meant to be perennial and I want to plant annuals. I want to augment my soil like Dbltree describes. A green manure in the spring/summer and a food source in the fall/winter. The neighbors are in the corn-bean-alfalfa rotation so I want to plant stuff that is different, hence my desire for Clearfield sunflowers. Weed control and different, but oh so expensive.


What are the chances that I can copyright “microplots” and make my millions so I can afford to move up to “macroplots”? Hey, perhaps I can copyright “macroplots” too.

So I’m wide open to suggestions for unusual or different microplots that are economical, weed controllable and penalty box time free until I can move up to macroplots.
 
You can plant those things in really small areas, yes, many are perennials though, super cheap though, sounds like you really need to keep the wife happy!!!....

How about this....
Plant thousands of rose bushes. Trails from the door into the bedroom for the wife, rooms filled with roses. You can take up romantic poetry, read love novels & start wearing robes around all day with gold chains and lots of chest hair, you and the wife sitting on a hillside in old bath-tubs after you take your Cialas, Barry Manalow music 24/7, etc. This could result in a whole new lifestyle for you. Or maybe you're already doing all these things Casanova??!
 
Dual II Magnum will work for the sunflowers Tom but it's still $300 for 2 1/2 gallons. Cinch is the generic version so a tad cheaper...;)
 
I don't know if they have Beyond but I just go to "Twin States Liqui Grow" and they let me take as much chemical as I need and charge me accordingly when I bring the jug back. I've done it with Select and crop oil the last couple yrs and saves me from putting all that money down on a whole jug at once
 
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