we're back out in the dull field today it is just beautiful all these
sunflowers out here it is mid-july all these flowers did bloom about a week ago
week and a half ago something like that I think we ended up with a really good
stand of sunflowers as you can see they're not near as tall as I would like
them to be and there are a few reasons for that and we'll talk about that in a
minute but overall we got a really good stand
of sunflowers these bees have been out here hard at work pollinating them and
so we're gonna have a lot of seed as you can see we have some that are pretty
good-sized as far as the seed head these are about the size of my hand which is
really great and I think we're going to end up with a really good hunt this year
we got just about another month and a half these fathers still have a little
bit more maturing to do before they can have fully formed seeds on them and
everything soon those birds will start coming in here and eating off of these
seeds some of those seeds as they dry out will drop to the ground now I'll
show you we did a really good job of getting rid of all the weeds that were
in here we've got really nice clean ground all through these rows and
everything and I'll walk you all through here in a minute and we'll look at some
things and talk a little bit more about it but before I do that if you haven't
seen the video on how we planted this field make sure you go check that out
I'll put a link to that up here at the top of the screen as well as putting
some links to all the products and things we use to plant down here in the
description and I did make some progress videos as these were growing so you
could see kind of what the process was throughout from the time we planted
until now some are rolling some of those videos and then I'll be right back
then you can see here as these sunflower plants are starting to get bigger
sitting deer tracks and deer coming in here and laughing the tops off of them
eating them they skip a few every now and then but like I said we got so many
planted it's really planted more than we needed so y'all they end up ok looking
good though all right guys we're gonna give you a little update here on the dug
field it is the end of June and as you can see the sunflowers are coming on
nicely they're about a little over knee-high right now looking real good
like you saw earlier in the video we did have some deer come in and eat on some
of them and I'll go back and show you all that here in a minute but what else
you can see is we also have a lot of weeds in here so one thing we did not do
that we should have done we didn't spray a pre-emergent after we
planted and we did spray good and killed everything when roundup before we plant
it but we didn't spray anything after we planted a pre-emergent but overall
everything is looking good I think we're still going to have a really good stand
of sunflowers this year so what we're going to do today is we're gonna get out
here and we're going to spray down all these weeds with I MOX herbicide what
they recommend for Clearfield sunflowers is a product called beyond well if
you've ever looked up beyond this about $500 fresh some beyond now I'm ox is
like an off-brand you can get it at Keystone Solutions online and I'll put a
link to that in the description below it's got the same ingredients as beyond
and it's quite a bit cheaper so that's what we're going to use we're going to
go in here we're going to spray all the weeds and any of the ones that we think
are too big we're just going to pull them by hand put them in a bucket and
carry them out the field one thing you don't want to do is just pull the weeds
and leave them laying on the ground because they will reroute and start
growing right there where you left them so what you want to do is put them in a
bucket or whatever take them out of the field and so that's what we're going to
do today now let me take you around I'll show you the field a little bit and
we get to work like I said these sunflowers that are coming in look great
nice big stalks on there and a stock already about the size of my thumb
looking real good starting to get a little sunflower head on there and it's
looking good all of these are looking great now there
is some where we had some growing a little too close together like here and
as you can see we got a lot of sunflowers and these things are looking
great the deer came in here and thinned it out a little bit for us you can see
here's one right here where the deer just completely lopped it off and
there's a whole section on this row right here where there's just no
sunflowers and that's because the deer came in here and ate it up but overall
man it looks good you can see this is our strip down the middle that we're
going to plow in and we're just going to top so wheat here and like said all the
way around the outside - a lot of weeds right here we may even just come in here
and roundup this section here but plenty of grass we are coming in here a little
late we should have come in here and sprayed these weeds probably three weeks
ago but we've been busy been out of town a little bit and so we haven't had a
chance to get in here and do that and we're probably going to regret that but
hopefully we should still be able to salvage it now these are some big ones
right here this one here is about waist-high looking good and now out here
in the middle this section in the middle of the field here you can see it all the
way across with some real hard rocky ground and some flowers just you can see
how much smaller they are here than they are up there and that's just something
you got to deal with you know you'll have
some spots of the field that grow better than others a lot of weeds I don't know
what kind of weed this right here is somebody in the comments tell me what
this is but there is a ton of that in this field it's everywhere
but we're gonna try to get in here today and get all those weeds sprayed and get
what we can pull it up try to get it taken care of and we're going to come
back probably every couple of weeks and redo that maybe not spray every time
obviously but uh we will come in here and pick weeds every couple weeks we
should have been doing that from the beginning but uh you know this first
time we've done this field so but so far I'm thinking it's not bad for our first
go-round well let's get to work
alright guys we're back in the Duffield mid-july as you can see we got really
clean ground down here we did a pretty good job of getting rid all those weeds
we did pull some weeds and we sprayed some of that I MOX and that did a great
job of controlling those weeds you can see all the way down maybe to the end of
the field you can look down here through the stalks we did a really good job of
getting rid all those weeds and that is going to help like I mentioned before
the dove do like to get down on the ground they're like nice clean ground to
walk around and eat that seed on so it's important to have really good clean
ground like I mentioned in a few of the update videos before these flowers
didn't get quite as big as we wanted them to and there are a couple reasons
for that most of these are about belly high and that's not too bad but part of
the reason for that is the spacing like I mentioned before our planter did kind
of drop some seeds a little too close together and with those flowers
competing with each other for those nutrients in the ground it is going to
stunt them a little bit and that's something we're gonna have to work on
just do different for next year I think we'll just tape off every other hole on
that planting disk and that should get that spacing just about right as you can
see here we have quite a few that just the plant those seeds got dropped right
next to each other and the spacing wasn't great and they still grew fine
but they will grow better if you can get that spacing right when we walk you over
here and I'll show you a couple where the spacing was about perfect right here
on the edge you can see these two plants right here I'd say they're about a foot
foot and a half apart and that does look great they have nice big nice big stalks
on them they have nice big seed heads on us it's about the size of my hand
both of these are those are some really good-looking sunflowers right there
that's going to produce a whole lot of seeds for those dove here's another real
good size I'm about the same about the size of my hand give you a good little
look at the whole field here like I said it looks great we're really excited
about the hunt got about another month and a half
throughout that month us seeds will start to develop then as you can see the
flowers are already starting to wilt some of them a little bit and the birds
will come in here and they'll light on those flowers and they'll start to drop
seeds down on the ground that'll bring even more birds in and then because we
planted mid-may a couple of weeks before dove season comes in these flowers will
be dead and dry and that's exactly what you want whatever is not dead will come
in here and we'll spray the whole field would round up and make sure everything
is good and dead then a few days before season we'll come in here and we'll bush
hog down some big sections of the field as you can see right here beside the
field on all sides and down the middle we left it bare ground unplanted I'm out
here today I'm going to round up some of this to keep all those grass and weeds
out but we're going to come in until this and we'll top so wheat basically
what top sowing is we're just going to walk through here with seed spreaders
and we're just going to spread that seed out all through here I'd say wheat and
sunflowers are probably the top two things that are the doves of love to eat
on and so we're gonna have a nice buffet form out here the next video y'all see
will hopefully be a hunting video and I can guarantee you we're gonna have a
truck bed full of dove that day
thanks for watching guys alright guys and I hope I did a good job of showing
you kind of the progress of this field as it grew now you can see some of the
concerns we had some things we plan on doing better some things that worked out
great overall we ended up with a really good field I think we're gonna have a
great hunt this year one thing I do want to mention like I said this is the first
year we planted this field as you plant and the more years you do this the
better it's going to get the better your weed control is going to be the more
you're gonna learn and the better your field is going to produce and also if
you plant the same field year after year hopefully the Dove are going to keep
coming back and get bigger numbers to dove every year so I hope you'd enjoyed
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see this field all these sunflowers will be dead
and we will be huntin dove over them you'll probably see that video just
after the season opener beginning of September I can't wait to bring it to
you now if you guys want to plant your own sunflower Duffield I hope this
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