What's in your food plot??
03-29-2009, 04:10 PM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: NC
Posts: 250
RE: What's in your food plot??
I have given up on spring/summer plots...always gets soooo dry that everthing I have planted dies out. I now try to plant all of my plots in Sept. Over the past 10 yrs or so I have tried just about everything from Whitetail Inst. and Biologic with mediocre success in getting the deer to hit it very hard. Now I just go to my local farm seed store and get winter oats and winter peas. They sell them by the bushell and is WAAAAYYY cheaper than the commercial hunting products.
03-30-2009, 05:34 AM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Posts: 304
RE: What's in your food plot??
I also don't mess with spring, summer plots, to much money, the deer have plenty to eat at that time any way.
What I have done is to spend the money on (SPRING TIME) mineral supplements and noticed a definite difference in antler mass.
I live in the south so I plant on Memorial day weekend - Oats - peas - Sugar Beets (SECRET WEAPON)
The beets take 55 days to make and the deer won't mess with them much till after a frost or two, then the feeding frenzy is on.
What I have done is to spend the money on (SPRING TIME) mineral supplements and noticed a definite difference in antler mass.
I live in the south so I plant on Memorial day weekend - Oats - peas - Sugar Beets (SECRET WEAPON)
The beets take 55 days to make and the deer won't mess with them much till after a frost or two, then the feeding frenzy is on.
03-30-2009, 05:46 AM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 32
RE: What's in your food plot??
wat ya want to do is go to the county shop and get salt that they didnt use on the road and make a pile of that near your stand...as for the food plot, i would just till it up and plant lettuce and pumpkins, deer go wild for that sh**. and in one corner id plant maybe some cockleburr just for cover...but as for my food plot...there might be some mary jane in there!
04-02-2009, 04:34 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ohio and Indiana
Posts: 2,088
RE: What's in your food plot??
Early season plot--clover/alfalfa mix.
Late season--planting a late seasonplot in late Aug/early Sept of 1/2 brassicas, 1/2 winter wheat and oats mix..Maybe some rye in there as well.
Late season--planting a late seasonplot in late Aug/early Sept of 1/2 brassicas, 1/2 winter wheat and oats mix..Maybe some rye in there as well.
04-03-2009, 11:52 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: What's in your food plot??
I have about 8 acres in alfalfa (not really a food plot, but the deer love it anyway
), 2 acres in clover, and 2 in turnips (planted in the late summer). That is this season's plan anyway. Might put corn in the turnip plot next year.
), 2 acres in clover, and 2 in turnips (planted in the late summer). That is this season's plan anyway. Might put corn in the turnip plot next year.
