Food Plot Help
10-19-2018, 08:44 PM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Food Plot Help
wanted to hear some ideas. I recently planted two food plots with winter rye due to poor PH. I do get the occasional pictures of deer visiting very briefly but not what I had expected. Do they normally hit cereal grains after it has been colder for a while? I know there’s still plenty of greens in the woods, but not many acorns this year. Just not getting the amount of action I had expected.
10-20-2018, 03:14 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
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I have some strips of Rye between the cultivated fields and the woods. The Deer seem a lot more interested in it when it is short, right after a mowing. Young Rye seems a lot more appealing to them. Cows won't eat it when it gets too tall and coarse. Horses seem to do OK with it when it gets way tall, coarse and seeds.
Mow a strip through the middle of your plot and see what happens?
Start a compost pile with the cut Rye. It will eventually be full of Worms and may draw in Fox, Yotes and even Hogs. If the compost pile has seeded Rye in it, it will sprout young forage out of the compost pile, even in the winter. The heat from the compost pile is often enough to sprout seeds in the winter, if it isn't way cold. I bury old Chicken bones and offal in the compost pile, the heat from the compost spreads out a yummy scent in the winter.
Mow a strip through the middle of your plot and see what happens?
Start a compost pile with the cut Rye. It will eventually be full of Worms and may draw in Fox, Yotes and even Hogs. If the compost pile has seeded Rye in it, it will sprout young forage out of the compost pile, even in the winter. The heat from the compost pile is often enough to sprout seeds in the winter, if it isn't way cold. I bury old Chicken bones and offal in the compost pile, the heat from the compost spreads out a yummy scent in the winter.
Last edited by MudderChuck; 10-24-2018 at 02:19 PM.
