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Finally had some time to work on the first food plot I have tried. It is back in the woods that had orginally been cleared for what looks likea garden about 20-30 yrs ago, at least according to the owners. I am planning to cut down the trees in the next week to get some light to it. But just broke up the ground and put out some lime and fertilizer.

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second pic

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sitll working it up

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Final result

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good lookin spot

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First impression -
still looks pretty shady

- sure a plot will grow if the soil is good -but look at it knowing that shade might play a role in how much biomass the plot will produce. If the plot is nibbled bare - then your deer population is telling you that you need more - and if its not eaten a lot - then they either don't like it a whole lot - or you don't have a ton of deer feeding here.

I figure its about 1/5 acre (9000 square feet)- does that sound right?

FH

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Actually its about 1/3 third of an acre for now. Did all this in about 3 hours with a 65 year old dad who just had knee surgery 3 1/2 weeks ago to repair a completely torn tendon. He wasn't much of help to me other than us being together and enjoying the outdoors and trying to help our passion. I know that I have to cut down the trees but time constrainted us the other day. But thanks for the comments.

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good looking spot. even with the shade you might have good luck with clovers, especially white clover. very shade tolerant. anyway, keep up the good work.
brian

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thats looks like a great spot! You know what you have to do, i just can't wait to see the final result. What do you plan on planting there??

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Back in the woods, cleared spot, sounds more like an old marijuana patch. Till the meth heads took over the business it was common around here to find little patches all over the woods.

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Finally got seven trees out of the way in this plot to let some sunlight in. Here is the result

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more pics

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another pic

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final pic

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Looking good!! What do you plan on planting?

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looks like its shaping up great - nice job!

FH

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This year we are going to try EH Thro' N Gro just to get us started. There are alot of rocks, roots, and vines in the ground still but they are slowly coming up. I have a little 8 wheel disc and old harrow drag that I pulled behing my ATV but we couldn't get real deep in the soil because of the rocks and stuff. We went ahead and seeded the area the same day and thinking about getting something different to seed in the middle of the month.Hopefully something will grow and we can get some deer from there.

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I hope you used the tops of those trees to create funnels coming into your plot. A great way to make the deer go where you want them.
Brian

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Definetely, we pushed the brush next to the established trails to help keep the deer using the same trails and also created to ground blind sites for differents winds. I will be going up next weekend to put a stand opposite of the blinds and to check out the plants to see if they are growing.Thinking about putting out some more seed but don't want to overdoit. Should have a location to hunt no matter what the wind will be.