The thing i love about your channel is you are fun to watch even if i don't have deer fever and you're extremely engaging and informative for when i do have it i feel as if anyone could watch you and enjoy it
Thanks for sharing with what’s working in your area. I really appreciate it!! I planted quite a bit of crimson this year late summer and I was very happy with it. Thanks for watching and commenting’
Just found your videos this evening and Love it, I like putting in food plots and have had success but always looking to improve and now wanting to put in spring & summer plots. I live in North Mississippi and it can get HOT and dry. It's funny that I was just in West Kentucky the last couple of days with my work, Mayfield & Paducah areas. Keep up the great videos and I will keep on learning from you.
Hey Tommy! Thanks so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it, and I hope these videos can help you with any future food plots you put out. We aren’t very far from mayfield at all, only about 15 minutes. Thanks
You can plant so many different annuals into clover plots. 50" spaced double rows (10") of corn is awesome! Buckwheat, sunflower, rye/wheat, milo, fruit trees and pumpkins are a few successful plantings into my prized perennial plot. 😊
Great video. I'm not a beginner but you can never try learn too much. The only thing I would do differently or recommend to 1st time plotters, is I really think frost seeding clover is the way to go. 1, it allows them a headstart to get going for an advantage over competition. 2, and THIS IS THE BIGGEST REASON, if it doesn't work for whatever reason, drought, bad soil, animals, anything, you have plenty of time to plant again. So I guess what I never understand is if you can plant in the spring, why would anyone ever wait til fall? Doesn't make sense to me. Even if it doesn't take, it always improves the soil when turned back in, and you actually get a redo with some prior experience if you do end up planting in the fall. Sorry to go overboard with this, but hopefully you get what I'm saying, I just don't see the drawback of frost seeding. I am a big believer in spray weed killers tho, and if you not then I guess I get it, but frost seeding really helps get the jump on weeds. Thanks for the video
Thanks for your comments, really appreciate your insight and knowledge. Totally makes sense to do what you said and go ahead and frost seed the only thing that I didn’t want folks to do is get discouraged and do all the work to get your frost seeding clover down get a beautiful stand then a drought kill it. Might be hard for them to want to go through all the trouble again and do the same thing for a 2nd time this fall. I think you absolutely can frost seed clover but in my opinion the fall plantings is much better odds at a successful clover plot(or at least in my area). Thanks for the comment, keep them coming!
What about in the Northeast ? We never see a drought as we always have more rain than we can handle. Plus we dont get the extreme heat you do . Do you think i could get away with a clover ,alfalfa mix.
If I’m gonna go through the trouble of planting alfalfa, it’s gonna be a pure stand of alfalfa. Clover is a much easier plot and I think managed differently than alfalfa. Both have their places on farms across the u.s. if you’re having good luck with clover food plots I’d stick with it.
Yes, I’ve done the exact same as you did, bought a 50 lbs pound and spread it all on the small plot. mu thoughts were that since I was frost seeding I wouldn’t get as good of a germination rate….however most all of it came up. Mine was way too thick and eventually ended up buying in the mid summer as we got into a severe drought. Good luck with your plot!
I am in Eastern NC. I just created a new plot 3/4 acre. I used Forestry Mulcher to cut in the plot. PH is terrible, time will take care of it going forward. What would you recommend I plant in the spring?
Stephen, I wouldn’t plant anything in the spring, use the next 6/7 months to get the soil right. Lime it and get fertilizer on it, and if plant a food plot this fall on it. If you get it corrected this year, come next spring you can plant whatever food plot you want.
Hey Mr Wes , I have a question. Tomorrow morning I’m going to spread brassica seeds on 1 acre. I tilled it last week and I’m going to till in some fertilizer tomorrow. My question is ,should I spread the brassica seeds on the fluffy tilled soil and cultipack them in or should I cultipack then spread the seeds and cultipack again
Mr Gary, great question. The risk you run with brassica seeds is getting them into the ground to deep….1/2” is the max they can be planted, 1/4” deep is perfect. They simply don’t have the energy that the bigger seeds do to get up out of the ground from a deep depth. I think it’s best to have a firm seed bed for small seeds. I would work the ground, cultipack it, sew it and cultipack it again b4 a good rain and you should be perfect. Hope this helps! Good luck with the plot!
In my area of the Northeast clover works great for me. Now i have planted beets n greens, winter peas, iron clay peas and the deer dont really touch them. Yet they destroy the clover . Yet 12 miles north of me a friend of mine plants about 2 acres of the beets n greens and the deer eat them to the dirt.. I dont get it .. I have about 100 apple trees and the deer in my area really dont seem to care about them. Yet my friend 12 miles north will come over and get a 55 gallon barrel of apples every 3 days as the deer devour them at his place..
That is 100% my experience with food plots….you gotta figure what works in your area and stick with it. I’ve seen deer turn their noses up at plots that absolutely got devoured on other farms. That is why I’m such a big fan of diversity, I’ve seen deer pound a plot to the point of over browsing and the next week abandon it…so if you can get multiple food sources on the farm your increasing the chances that they are feeding on your property somewhere.
@@DIYfoodplotpro Thank you Yes I plant 3 acres of corn as well. I'm adding sunflowers this year too. I have many apple trees and chestnut trees too. I would like to add alfalfa and more clover.
Im a big fan of alfalfa….there is a lot of pride that a food plotter gets out of an alfalfa plot…its a tough plot to manage and cutting corners will end up with a failed plot.
Yeah that is the herbicide I referred to in the video but I’ve never used it so I didn’t want to recommend something that I have personally never used. Thanks for watching the videos, really appreciate it!
This video was when I was just starting out and I had very little film to go with my videos….And also that’s for good reason….i plant virtually no perennial clover on my farms….in my case I feel like I have better options. Thanks for watching
