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jpdusn · 09-11-2012, 09:46 AM

Ok folks, I live in northeast Florida and am planning on planting a winter food plot. It's about a quarter acre in size, has good moisture and sun but of course it will require lime and fertilizer. My question is what do you think I should plant? What I'm tossing around is one of the following three:
Turnip
Radish
Sugar Beets

Any input will be well received. Thanks in advance.

(EDIT) Maybe I should have specified that the food plot is for the deer in my hunting area.

ozo · 09-11-2012, 10:27 AM

Sugar Beets...[of your choices]
They can well and you can live on them.
Radishes are good for purifying your blood,
but how many can you eat a day...?
I don't like/eat turnips, and if you want the greens,
you will have them on the beets.
Hogs will eat turnips....

carver · 09-11-2012, 10:36 AM

If you like greens, then go with turnips, colards, and mustard greens. Only the turnip greens will produce a root that you can eat. How about some potatoes, cabbage, or some garlic. Lettuce, collards, snow peas, cabbage and broccoli should all do well, thoughg it might be a little late for patatoes. The sugar beats are a good idea.

jpdusn · 09-11-2012, 10:39 AM

Maybe I should have specified that the food plot will be for the deer in my hunting area. My fault.

Alpo · 09-11-2012, 12:37 PM

"Maybe I should have specified that the food plot will be for the deer in my hunting area" I wondered. Those wouldn't have been what I would plant as a winter crop for MY consumption.

Sugar beets? For people food? My understanding has always been that sugar beets, like sugar cane, is not so much "eaten as is" but is processed into sugar.

Yes, folks eat beets, but beets, like come in the can down at the store, are not sugar beets. Different strain.

Back to the question.

I don't know if this is true, but read many years back where this kid planted sugar beets, and when he thinned 'em he threw the thinnings to the hogs. Said that the pork that year was uncommonly sweet.

Since I presume your plan it to shoot a deer or twenty, and stick 'em in the freezer, I'd go with the sugar beets.

zkovach · 09-19-2012, 03:21 PM

Sugar beets for sure

old semperfi · 09-20-2012, 12:44 AM

try talking to the county or state biologist,i know we have them in indiana and they will tell you what grows best in your area.make sure to tell them it is a food plot for deer and or hogs. old semperfi

09-11-2012, 09:46 AM	#1
jpdusn Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: N.E. Florida Posts: 43	Question Ok folks, I live in northeast Florida and am planning on planting a winter food plot. It's about a quarter acre in size, has good moisture and sun but of course it will require lime and fertilizer. My question is what do you think I should plant? What I'm tossing around is one of the following three: Turnip Radish Sugar Beets Any input will be well received. Thanks in advance. (EDIT) Maybe I should have specified that the food plot is for the deer in my hunting area. --> Last edited by jpdusn; 09-11-2012 at 10:49 AM..

09-11-2012, 10:27 AM	#2
ozo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 2,772	Re: Question Sugar Beets...[of your choices] They can well and you can live on them. Radishes are good for purifying your blood, but how many can you eat a day...? I don't like/eat turnips, and if you want the greens, you will have them on the beets. Hogs will eat turnips.... __________________ http://www.nranews.com/#/nranews, "ozo. you're off your rocker sir." -johnlives4christ http://www.prisonplanet.com/ -America,Bless GOD-

09-11-2012, 10:36 AM	#3
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,547	Re: Question If you like greens, then go with turnips, colards, and mustard greens. Only the turnip greens will produce a root that you can eat. How about some potatoes, cabbage, or some garlic. Lettuce, collards, snow peas, cabbage and broccoli should all do well, thoughg it might be a little late for patatoes. The sugar beats are a good idea. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

09-11-2012, 10:39 AM	#4
jpdusn Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: N.E. Florida Posts: 43	Re: Question Maybe I should have specified that the food plot will be for the deer in my hunting area. My fault.

09-11-2012, 12:37 PM	#5
Alpo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Florida Posts: 8,772	Re: Question "Maybe I should have specified that the food plot will be for the deer in my hunting area" I wondered. Those wouldn't have been what I would plant as a winter crop for MY consumption. Sugar beets? For people food? My understanding has always been that sugar beets, like sugar cane, is not so much "eaten as is" but is processed into sugar. Yes, folks eat beets, but beets, like come in the can down at the store, are not sugar beets. Different strain. Back to the question. I don't know if this is true, but read many years back where this kid planted sugar beets, and when he thinned 'em he threw the thinnings to the hogs. Said that the pork that year was uncommonly sweet. Since I presume your plan it to shoot a deer or twenty, and stick 'em in the freezer, I'd go with the sugar beets. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with catsup - George of Lod, Year of Our Lord 297 I always take precautions. Beware the Evil Bullet Fairies.

09-19-2012, 03:21 PM	#6
zkovach Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,005	Re: Question Sugar beets for sure __________________ Liberalism: Poverty for ALL!!

09-20-2012, 12:44 AM	#7
old semperfi Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: i live in southern indiana,old country boy at heart Posts: 1,506	Re: Question try talking to the county or state biologist,i know we have them in indiana and they will tell you what grows best in your area.make sure to tell them it is a food plot for deer and or hogs. old semperfi