farm hunter, thanks I hope I can get my deck high enough, I may have to take my push mower in because I believe it sets higher than my rider...I'll go ahead and mow it as you say and hang my stands the same day.

dayna0306, interesting, I figure I'd disc up the thinner areas of the plot and replant next spring. I was thinking about disc'ing an area and planting a fall plot but I think I'm going to wait and see how this one makes out as a whole, I'll be sure to post more pics in update #5 around Sept and then again #6 with a big old mature whitetail buck and my bow across his chest.

Dan O, Well when I went back several weeks ago it looked so darn small and I wasn't sure if it had enough lime to assist the clovers along. I was told clovers like sweet soil. I set the deck up high enough as you can see in the close up photo that I missed the all the actual "plot" plants. Unless I didn't recognize taller plants. Are there plants that could have grown more substantial than the plants you see in the close up, other than the rye grasses that I could clearly see?

I planted a mixture of the clovers, brassicas, rape, turnips, rye and a bag of biologic which is what the same things minus the clovers and grasses?