Got the ground worked up yesterday. Pelletized lime and seed down today right before a 30 minute rain . Mixed sections on Kale , turnips, red ear and lidino clover. Strip of rape , rye, and sugar beets in the middle. Put sunflowers around entire outer perimeter.

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Broadcast and drag/cultipack?

I’m planting plots for two landowners, my goal is to have the spring plots finished by May 1. Got them sprayed, fertilized and limed. Just need to till and seed.

Good luck hope the plot germinates nicely

… that’s going to be the best foodplot ever planted Uncle Jbyrd!!

Thats going to look like the gardens of Buckingham palace when that all pops up

Naw, he just wasted a bunch of time planting that mix but..., he knows best.

Savell sucking up to Uncle Jbyrd again. It's alaways entertaining and gives me a laugh.

The best disked and seeded trail I’ve ever seen! Have you thought about putting a pop up blind next to the big woodpile on the right?

Jbyrd, you forgot the romaine lettuce.

We seed our food plots In late August. we don't want to feed the deer all summer long. We want to feed them during hunting season.

I spread lime yesterday and seeded one plot in clover and have another ready for buckwheat. I plant radish turnip brassica after the 15th of july. After the 1st of august winter rye winter wheat and winter peas go in over the buckwheat and spring clover. The radish turnup brassica go in over last years rye wheat and peas.

we still have snow , after three days in the high 70s ,

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Never understood harrowing up natural food to plant food that won’t last. You’d be surprised what grows naturally and has more nutrients than anything planted. And it’s a heck of a lot cheaper, lol. There’s not a month that there is something available for wildlife. I could understand maybe a fall plot when food sources are scarce, but never during the Spring. I’m guessing you don’t have many deer? If you did, that plot would never get above ankle high if that.

This food plot thing is an eastern thing I guess. The first time I heard discussion of them on here I thought you guys were talking about your home gardens. LOL

Just wait till he gets his boat up there to prune them trees. Its really going to make the place look nice

Looks Great

looks really nice

There are a lot of good reasons to plant food plots. I plant about forty acres each year. My primary focus is on deer, turkey, ducks, and doves. I have planted food plots for over forty years - much of that time planting them employed in natural resources with the feds. I have been retired for ten years and the forty acres I plant now is on my own place. Besides just for hunting, you can draw - and hold more game on your property than you could without food plots. I feel the more time game stays on my property, the less likely it is to be killed by someone off my property. Game will imprint on your food plots. I have a different group of does that calls each of my plots home base. Half the doe fawns stay with the doe group. That keeps your deer population steady or growing. Yes, native vegetation can supply everything a deer needs, but deer are lazy and seek out areas with good nutrition where the feeding is easy. I see multitudes more deer in my food plots than my managed native vegetation. Summer Food plots with high protein plant foods will provide extra nutrition for does with fawns and bucks growing antlers. A winter wheat deer plot, if properly maintained, can be a spring turkey plot and a late summer dove plot.

I have probably planted about every seed typically used in food plots in my area. For most of my plantings, I now rely on simplicity. A base food plot of perennial white clovers like durana or patriot for late winter, spring, and summer with wheat planted into that plot early fall for a quick green up for hunting. The wheat is for hunting and the clover is for the deer. My straight up dove plots are browntop millet, and my duck plots are flooded Japanese millet. These plots use relatively inexpensive seed, they are easy to put in and easy to maintain with mowing or chemicals. They are pretty dang hog proof. They are mostly army worm resistant because of timing and crop selection. Deer dont wipe them out. And wildlife has a food source year round.

Well said WhiteCliffs.

There’s not much in a pine woods in terms of nutrition for wildlife. A mixed hardwood stand , with snags and blow overs, and breaks in the canopy is another story.