If you’ve been
looking for an incredibly sweet all-brassica food plot product that provides
top attraction for fall, winter and everything between, look no farther than
Imperial Whitetail Beets & Greens.
Beets & Greens is a diverse blend of multiple brassica
varieties, including Tall Tine Turnips, sugar beets and proprietary radishes and
kale that establish and grow quickly, provide lots of succulent foliage above
ground, and produce turnips, beets and radishes underground that will attract
deer and provide them with various food options from fall through winter.
Forage Components and Performance
Beets & Greens is designed to maximize attraction in two
ways: through the exceptional attractiveness of each of its components and by
offering them in precise ratios so deer always have multiple food sources in
the same plot from fall through winter. And like other Whitetail Institute seed
blends, Beets & Greens includes seed varieties that are only available in
Whitetail Institute products. Tall Tine Turnip, the only turnip variety scientifically developed
specifically for food plots for deer, is included in Beets & Greens and
produces abundant foliage and large, sweet tubers. The foliage provides
variety with other brassicas in Beets & Greens as they begin to attract
deer during the early hunting season, and it becomes even sweeter with the
first frosts of fall. The turnip tubers continue to attract
deer and provide them with critical nutrition during the cold winter months. Sugar
beets are included in Beets & Greens because they’re very high in sugar —
so high they’re commercially grown throughout the world for sugar production.
Sugar beet tops are highly attractive to deer immediately, offering them
substantial levels of protein and the carbohydrates they need for energy from fall
into the late season and beyond. Beets & Greens also includes the Whitetail
Institute’s proprietary kale variety, WINA 210, which has proven through trials
to be the most attractive kale variety the Whitetail Institute has ever tested.
Unlike kale varieties with coarse leaves that grow in a tight head, WINA 210
kale grows large, tall, individual leaves that are highly palatable to deer. The
Whitetail Institute’s proprietary radish, WINA 412, is also included in Beets &
Greens to maximize the attraction of the stand throughout the season by adding
variety to the forage and tuber offerings of the plot. In addition to
fulfilling their roles as forage components in Beets & Greens, WINA 412 Radish
and Tall Tine Turnip can also help improve soil quality in two ways. First, the
turnip and radish tubers drill down as they grow, helping to aerate heavier,
compacted soils. WINA 412 Radish, for example, produces tubers that can push
several feet even into compacted clay soils and grow as thick as soft drink bottles,
much larger than the small, round radishes we commonly see in grocery stores.
Second, any turnip and radish tubers remaining the next spring also add organic
matter to the soil as they break down.
Conclusion
Beets
& Greens is designed to establish and grow quickly, providing deer with
abundant, highly attractive foliage from early fall into the cold winter
months. Its tubers start attracting deer in the late fall and continue to serve
as a vital food source through winter. The Whitetail Institute even coats Beets
& Greens seeds with Rain bond to help ensure seedling survival. Rainbond
absorbs up to 200 times its weight in moisture from the soil and keeps it next
to the seeds as they sprout and grow. Beets & Greens is available in
3-pound bags that will plant 1/2 acre, and 12-pound bags that will plant two
acres. For more information, go to whitetailinstitute.com, or call (800) 688-3030.
