Iron clay peas are a good food source for deer. i got into planting clay peas a few years ago. This year we have about four acres of them on three properties.

This patch of clay peas is about one acre: The deer have eaten all of the blooms off the peas. If we get good rain, good growth and the deer do not eat the plants down to their nubs; we will let this plot go until the frost kills it and then plant Chilocco oats mixed with winter wheat.