ARO
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Post by ARO on Jun 3, 2006 14:21:40 GMT -5
around here sunflowers are a great crop for doves and quail, it draws them like a magnet.
its funny, i am trying to kill chufa (nutsedge) in all my customers lawn's, but yet i want to grow it myself!!
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Post by txm on Jun 3, 2006 15:22:25 GMT -5
If only it were the same plant,I would have turkeys everywhere. They do like nutsedge(nut grass)it just doesn't produce enough and not large enough nuts. Sure is hard to kill in the lawn.
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Post by ARO on Jun 4, 2006 9:30:34 GMT -5
actually chufa is another name for yellow nutsedge, which is what grows throughout lawns in the mid atlantic region, not to be confused with purple nutsedge, but are both in the sedge family. some companies have hybridized different sedge's to come up with different varieties of chufa for cultivating purposes, but they are all still varieties of nutsedge.
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Post by txm on Jun 4, 2006 14:41:17 GMT -5
Yes I know. We have purple nut sedge in our area and it is a major lawn problem, we also have the yellow variety in the eastern part of the state... I have used Image for control and it takes several applications. Do you have a good control for it? The chufa has nuts three times larger and one third deeper. Chufa also tests at 30% oil content and the nut sedge at 15%on average
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Post by ncboman on Jun 4, 2006 21:20:23 GMT -5
After all this reading on chufa, I almost certain peanuts are a better choice ... and I bet deer like peanut vines better.
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Post by ARO on Jun 5, 2006 19:13:41 GMT -5
i use basagran to control it in lawn turf. it is a very touchy application, cant be too hot and must have good soil moisture to get good control.
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Post by ncboman on Jun 5, 2006 22:56:39 GMT -5
I wonder now. We have nutgrass, I have no idea the variety. I just pulled a good bit of it from around my mater plants. ;D I'm not sure what chufa looks like but nutgrass don't look nothin like peanuts.
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Post by txm on Jun 6, 2006 7:11:47 GMT -5
I looks like what you pulled,but tallerand with larger nuts. Pulling does not kill it ,the tubers will grow new plants. In fact it tend to grow back thicker when pulled in my area.
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Post by ARO on Jun 6, 2006 8:40:01 GMT -5
i was lazy one time and sprayed round up between the rows in the vegetable garden, after watering it a couple days the runoff killed some of my mater plants. you think i would know better!!
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Post by txm on Jun 6, 2006 9:09:38 GMT -5
I too used round up on nut grass long ago. It helped it grow by killing competion. It yellowed the tops for a few days but did not kill a single nut grass plant. Tough stuff ,unless you are trying to grow it.
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Post by ncboman on Jun 6, 2006 10:56:55 GMT -5
Well I think chufa is a big joke(ripoff) if it's like nutgrass. Deer don't eat nutgrass foliage. Peanuts are so far superior as a food source, I don't know why chufa would even be considered. thanks for the info on chufa/nutgrass. I learned something here.
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Post by ARO on Jun 6, 2006 16:07:26 GMT -5
do turkeys eat peanuts?
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Post by ncboman on Jun 6, 2006 16:57:41 GMT -5
just about everything likes a peanut. unless the elephanuts are on the stampeed. ;D I've seen turkeys hunting bugs in peanut fields during late summer but locally we don't have anything near the turkey you do in Md. If you can grow peanuts, I'm quite sure you'll be impressed with all types of game including turkeys. Once frost knock them down, if you have a way to dig and turn them, game will flock in for the feast. I'd think a used turner you pull behind a tractor wouldn't be expensive. the one above is modern but there are older ones around that will do the job. I've seen em plowed up with mules, long ago.
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Post by txm on Jun 6, 2006 17:48:22 GMT -5
Turkeys love peanuts!
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