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The deer love stinging nettle in the river bottoms on North Dakota Deer candy of the North in Aug-September They eat the tops off it grows better than any food plot you can plant in early season Find were they are eating it and hang a trail camera and a deer stand it’s browsed on heavily in September here
I hunt public land river bottoms in NW MS. A plant that is absolutely crucial for deer - especially in late season - is the humble yet almighty "Dewberry," genus Rubus. This plant/vine is closely related to the blackberry and ripens in Spring a couple weeks before the blackberry. It can't support its weight, so it runs along the ground or climbs. Very often in many of the areas I hunt it's the ONLY green plant after November. Deer tear it up. You can watch the patches of dewberry get ever-smaller from early Dec through the end of deer season. These patches are the closest thing to a "food plot" you're gonna find on the public lands. Set up near the stuff a few hunts, be patient, and you WILL see deer coming in for a bite. Excellent video Catman. I find it fascinating how many of these staples for deer are "invasive." Make one wonder what they ate before Europeans brought all that stuff over!
Catman is money (knowledge). Learned much from this young man. 71 soon still feeding the skeeters and getting torn up by nettles. Scouting is my weak suit and this very helpful
I really liked this video. I'm no expert, but I would agree that if a deer is hungry enough they will eat anything green. I do agree that keeping this video limited to 8 plants makes sense because of that. That being said a second tier or plan B plants video would be cool or really a plant video in general would be cool because you really seem to know them. I wish I could identify plants well.
Winter creeper is a great attractant late season. Go into an area with some and strip the vines where they’ll hang down and you have an instant late season food plot!
Here in North Carolina,,honeysuckle is a big indicator ,,the Virginia state line is as close as hedge apple gets to here , also grown over areas of kudzu is a great place to see deer before the first frost.
Catman, do you happen to have any specific vegetation besides acorns that I can look for here in Michigans lower peninsula? I have noticed they eat the wild onion and garlic tops but am struggling to find foods they favor other than what I have mentioned.
Look for anything green with the tops eaten off. If you notice the same type of plant always has the tops cut off, it’s probably one that they really like.
Good video and good source of deer browse info. Deer are certainly browsers no matter what supplemental food is planted or poured into a trough. Deer are ruminants and make vegetation taste just like meat. I remember in the deer research pens at Auburn University, the particular research was to see which flavor of clover the deer liked best. I think the deer spent more time between each sample plot eating the "weeds". As mentioned, they will eat most any plant.....especially if fertilized. However, oxalis and yellow jasmine are two species of which I have never seen browsing evidence.
Excellent Catman. I love the info. Some of the plants aren’t found here in Maine but a few are. I just found a patch of Canadian nettles that’s getting mowed down by the deer browse.
Thanks for the cool info Catman, can't wait to see what you put on the ground this year. I'm headed to Tennessee the week of Nov 6th for my first out of state hunt, hoping everything I've learned from the likes of THP, Infalt, you, my own experiences, etc etc will lead to success.
I’m in Giles Co, and I have several of some variety of wild peach tree that has small golfball size peaches on them. The deer will eat everything they can eat off of these. It’s not unusual to see 2 and 3 at a time standing on their hind legs stretching as high as they can to get these peaches. Once they have cleared everything they can reach, they will spend hours laying under these trees waiting for the remainder of the peaches to fall. If we have a rain/wind storm, they immediately head to these trees to cash in on the fallen peaches. I have these in numerous spots along the edges of the woods. No clue what kind of peach tree they are, though.
Hello Python 357. It's a pleasure to know you're in Giles County. So am I, Pulaski and Lynnville areas to be exact.y deer hunting, dove hunting, squirrel and rabbit hunting have been in the same area. Hope you have a fantastic hunting season and winter.
You said they were wild peach trees. I’m just wondering if you are absolutely certain that they are peaches and not pears because there have been lots of wild pears growing in North America for hundreds of years. Wild pairs is what I have growing around me in the Ohio river valley
