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There really is no way to start a food plot in a totally wooded area. You need an opening big enough to get at least six to eight hours of sunlight everyday for food plots to survive. That said, you can plant other things in a wooded area like honeysuckle and others that are shade tolerant.
If you have alot of agriculture around you you might want to make your land attractive by creating some thick area's where the deer can bed. If there is not a whole lot of agriculture it might be worth you while to create a opening around 150 ft by 75 ft or bigger and plant some clover. Making smaller plots you can use an ATV or even work the ground by hand with a tiller and rake.

Anytime you have smaller narrow plots that the deer feel secure in they will come out and feed at any time of the day. Alot of times these plots get used more in the daytime and more open area's ae used at night.

You may have to just pick out the area that is least valuable as for as timber goes and hire a bulldozier to clean out a good food plot area. I like to leave a few trees in the plot. It seems the deer feel a little more protected.

If you area has that many trees it may need to be thinned. Sometimes if you go in and fell some trees on top of eachother you will create some openings and cover. Most quality food plot products will need 3-5 hr/day of at least broken sunlight... Soil ph is also a big factor. In wooded areas the soil may be rich but acidic from all the leave decay, especially oak leaves. Do you have any supplemental licks going?

Edited by - lunchbucket on 01/17/2002 08:29:27