Plot Saver
07-25-2005, 04:10 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Grain Valley, MO.
Posts: 3,030
RE: Plot Saver
I put in some Imperial whitetail clover, they didn't seem to hit it alot, until after the rifle season was over. I guess it was when everything else was all brown and dried up. then it got mowed down hard by the deer. It looked like someone ran thru it with a lawnmower. I'd reccommend it.
07-25-2005, 08:28 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
Posts: 2,973
RE: Plot Saver
I'm not a big fan of Plot Saver. I think it might work, but I think it would be more practical to spend the money on planting a larger plot.
There might be applications where you don't want the deer eating the plot until hunting season (like a small patch in front of a treestand) - but thats not the kind of management our group has been trying to practice.
There are other ways of protecting a young plot when its developing, like using a nurse crop (like oats or rye). Or plant a fall preferred plot like Brassica (rapeseed) if you really don't want the deer to eat it during the summer.
Just my thoughts on it.
There might be applications where you don't want the deer eating the plot until hunting season (like a small patch in front of a treestand) - but thats not the kind of management our group has been trying to practice.
There are other ways of protecting a young plot when its developing, like using a nurse crop (like oats or rye). Or plant a fall preferred plot like Brassica (rapeseed) if you really don't want the deer to eat it during the summer.
Just my thoughts on it.
07-30-2005, 08:50 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 381
RE: Plot Saver
I tried some and it did not work for us. I set up a scouting camera on the plot and got pictures of deer inside of the PlotSaver the evening after I sprayed it. I have to wonder if it would work if my plots were bigger. Maybe if you had a couple of acres and only protected one acre.
I had been trying it since last fall and hadn't seen any difference. That is why I put the camera up.
My plot was only about 1/2 acre and I tried to block off the center 1/3 of the plot and it didn't work.
John
I had been trying it since last fall and hadn't seen any difference. That is why I put the camera up.
My plot was only about 1/2 acre and I tried to block off the center 1/3 of the plot and it didn't work.
John
07-31-2005, 05:41 AM
#6
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 27
RE: Plot Saver
I'd rank it just slightly ahead of ph meters. It didn't work for us anyway and I haven't heard many postive comments at all. On the other hand I have heard zero comments on ph meters other than an occasional one on a message board.
08-04-2005, 05:38 PM
#7
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: NE PA
Posts: 288
RE: Plot Saver
I just installed the Plot Saver around a clover field that I plannted, When I go back up state in three weeks I will let you know how it worked. I hope it rains in the next couple of days becuse the corn that I planted in June, did not grow because of lack of rain
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