Food Plot In The Woods?
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Big Ten Country, Wisconsin
Posts: 49
Food Plot In The Woods?
I am just wondering if it is possible to put a food plot in the woods? If so, what would you plant that grows in the shade? When would you plant a food plot in the woods? Thanks .
#3
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Big Ten Country, Wisconsin
Posts: 49
I'm thinking about putting some sort of food source on an old logging road. The logging road is about 300-400 yards long. Half of the road is on the southern slope of a ridge and the other half is on top of the ridge. The trees are a mixture of white oak, maple, and aspen. Any help is great, since I have never made a food source. Thank you.
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: central florida
Posts: 857
I hunt in timber land with no real open areas, all of my plots are 10 to 40 feet wide and in strips from 100 to 150 or more yards. I guess you could say we plant our shooting lanes. Top whatever trees or bushes block the sun and you can plant whatever you like. We try to pick east west facings so we dont have to top pines. Works just fine for us.
#9
Clear a few trees out and plant white clover, it grows most of the year and only needs to be mowed during the summer for weed control. Deer feed on it all winter when other plots are gone or dead. You don't have disc or plow the ground, just kill the other plants with Round Up and disturb the soil for good contact and you have a plot. You can get your seed from a local farm/feed store and it runs about $3 a pound and it only takes a couple pounds per acre. It is the same thing as the high priced clover from a hunting supplier.
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 202
We planted 2 1/4 acres of clover in our woods. 1 plot gets alot of shade and one gets alot of sun and the plot in the sun had alot of grass come up with the clover. We just sprayed the plot this past weekend to kill the grass. The first 2 pictures are of the plot that doesn't get alot of sun and the last 2 pictures are the plot that gets alot of sun. We planted these plots on Good Friday.
Last edited by gunther89; 05-24-2010 at 09:03 AM.