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Rape andRadish now?

Yes. They usually don't eat mine until they have frozen a couple times and other food sources are depleted. I plant radishes and turnips especially for late season hunting.
 
They have been destroying my turnips for the last week. This is earlier than I thought they would. There is standing corn everywhere still.
 
Yep Daver, and rape is the least attractive, and mostly a cheap filler. I use a very small amount of rape, just to take some pressure off the plants, as they are getting established. The radish is what makes the brassica and rye mix work here. After it's been very cold for an extended time, the radish will turn to mush, and the turnips will finish feeding them untill the rye and clover takes over in march.
 
I have pictures of a few does eating the entire radish and turnips last weekend. Ate non stop for an hour
 
Yep Daver, and rape is the least attractive, and mostly a cheap filler. I use a very small amount of rape, just to take some pressure off the plants, as they are getting established. The radish is what makes the brassica and rye mix work here. After it's been very cold for an extended time, the radish will turn to mush, and the turnips will finish feeding them untill the rye and clover takes over in march.

We are on the same page...I definitely have seen the radishes mush up the last 2 years in particular. And in one of my genius food plotting moves last year...I exacerbated the situation by planting one brassica plot to almost nothing but radishes. I did this after the first planting failed due to lack of rain, so I replanted late and went heavy on the radishes since they seem to need about 1-2 fewer weeks of time to come in.

The heavy radish "Hail Mary" approach seemed like the bomb and I was feeling pretty smart for a couple of days...until the unseasonable early freeze hit and I had a very smelly plot by mid-to-late November. By Thanksgiving the radishes were so rotten that the field was basically a turn off to the deer as far as I could tell. Trail cam pics and sign were way down once the radishes mushed up.

This year though it has not been "brassica killer" cold until now and I have a lot of good looking turnips in the brassica fields that I hope carry the field through December and January as I suspect the radishes will now fade quickly with this cold spell.
 
Yea its a shamefreeze so early. Ihadsuch a nice stand of radishs. I have seen all fall the deer seem to favor radish over rape. Never tried turnis have to next yr
 
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