I know there probably is a post on this but I dont feel like searching all over for it. I wanted to know how and what i would need to make a very small food plot only 15ft by 15ft. I know i would need to clear an area but then what? Is there any type of vegetation that is low maintence? I live about 2 hours away so it would need to survive without any help for weeks at a time.Any replies on getting started would be appreciated. Thanks for reading

If it's that small you will be wasting your time!! The deer will eat it before it gets a chance to grow! I planted 1/4 of an acre a few falls ago.I planted a mix with brassicas to draw deer in during gun season. It lasted about three weeks.

On the land I hunt, we're in the process of making several small food plots--by small I mean 1/2 to 1 acre in size. We've got a brush mower for behind the 4 wheeler that knocks down pretty much everything, and then we put on some weed killer, let that sit, rake it off and then run the disc over it. We usually wait to plant until the forecast is looking like some good rains, because we too live about 1 hour away...so we can't be watering it all to easily.

Anyways, we've planted some turnips, clover, alphalpha, etc. and they seemed to do pretty well this last year. One thing we are going to try this year that you may want to look into is using Plotsaver. I read an article where someone tested that with great results, so why not try it!

Anyways, good luck with your food plot, but in my opinion, I would suggest making it either larger, or putting more of them around your land

i did it. same size too. i hit the ground with round-up in a sprayer and then 10-14 days later plant the seed with a spreader. i don't fertilize because it only brings in the weeds. if you do fertilize.stay away from nitrogen, thats your main culprit for weeds. clover, alfalfa and other perennials are nice and are usually low maintenance. this year I'll try that frost seeding to see how that works. planted my clover one year and it came up pretty good. following year i planted alfalfa but used miracle grow and had a hard time with weed control so I'll stay away from that this year.good luck and tell us how it comes out..... oh ya, people always say you need to till to get it to work, bull. just lay the seed during a hard rain or before and you'll do fine. make sure your PH is around 6.5-7.5 and if your soil is a little low on the nitrogen, potassium or phosphorous don't panic mine was to and it didn't affect my plot at all. i may try to spray fertilize or use concentrated phosphorous. or potassium. pellets this year to see how that works. i really like the NO-PLOW seed. don't lay any down to thick or you'll end up out competing some species of plant by accident.