join me as i attempt to show my experience as i experiment with food plots in a attempt to make bucks more active during daylight in urban areas. questions, comments, suggestions are all welcome . thanks
Here's a few hints to make the situation much better. 1) Remove the trees in the middle of the plot. Clover will grow in partially shaded areas such as your in the woods plots. However, if you are able to cut out the interior trees entirely so that you open up the plot to more sunlight, you can get much stronger clover growth and be able to grow other plants too. 2) Add chicory to the clover. Chicory grows in partial sunlight too and is a perennial. Deer eat it eagerly once they try it. If your clover doesn't do well, the chicory will help fill in the gaps. 3) Add in Durana or Patriot clovers to your annual clover. Over time, you want to stop growing annual clovers entirely and use the stronger, more browse resistant Durana or Patriot clovers which produce more and better forage. Deer will readily wipe out a small plot of annual clover. Durana will grow all spring, summer, and fall, pulling in deer over many months. Deer then form the habit of coming to the clover plot on a regular basis which will insure they are there during hunting season. 4) Plan deer vetch or other similar plants around the edges of the plot. Deer enjoy a native plant like vetch and it survives well under different weather conditions, thus helping insure that some food will always be in the plot. 5) Build plots around mast trees or fruit trees whenever possible. Having acorns falling into your food plots in the fall adds a huge attraction for deer and provides yet another good nutrition source. Good luck in your efforts.
Life on Trehan Creek thank you for the good advice I have since purchased a farm and my food plots are now in the open and consist of beans and turnips. However I do still have the plots I did in these videos and have been trying to figure out what I could do to improve them. Thank you for watching
Life on Trehan Creek thank you for the good advice I have since purchased a farm and my food plots are now in the open and consist of beans and turnips. However I do still have the plots I did in these videos and have been trying to figure out what I could do to improve them. Thank you for watching
Now having done a few food plots what have you learned? Round up is your friend. Lime is your friend, potash is your friend. Each time I put in a food plot I did more and more, and thus I was more successful. Lime is the biggest key. The second biggest, is making sure you round up everything. Then I think, is getting good germination through seed to soil contact. It looks like the deer kept it mowed down pretty good. And you could still go put pelletized lime on those plots and it would really help them.
Since then I have started keeping a living root in the ground as much as possible constantly planting in the standing previous crop just before spraying it. This makes it where I don't till and I have a great mulch later on the ground year round I will try to make a new video this year with my new practices. Thank you for watching and I appreciate your advice.
Great video. Nice to see what can be accomplished by hand. Just 2cents worth of advice, dont overseed with rye grass. Deer only tend to eat it when they have to. A lot of seed companies use it as fillers. Use rye grain instead. Germinates at low temps and deer love the tender shhots. Good luck
He I've tried the so called deer covers. Take it from a old man who loves to hunt go to you feed store and get some field rye or wheat or oats plant it in the early fall when the rains come and it will grow all thru the winter and it will grow in veer tough conditions. Just my 2 cents worth. I I've been issuing it for years between at agriculture on both sides of the PowerLine thicket that I hunt in the does luv it and the bucks will follow.
Hey Michael, On using rye & wheat do you have to do alot of prework or just plant it in late fall when everything is dying off because of the cold weather. Hope your hunting season went well. Have a rough year in Indiana. But did harvest a couple.
I like this video and I learned a few things that I'm going to use this coming year. My only criticism is poor men don't own tractors or side by sides. Just saying though. Good overall...
I’m going to try the imperial clover this year on two 1/4 acre plots. I’ve heard good reviews on it. Then at the end of summer I’m switching to a winter brassica
How did you like the yard tuff hand spreader? I have to say you did not do to bad on the food plots I'm sure since this video was made your plots have been a lot better.
On plot #3 whats the PH level there? I bought the same imperial whitetail clover and just wondering if its work my time to do a soil test or just plant it and see what happens. Thanks
