Food Plot Question...

[PoisonSnake]

I would put it back in the woods some, but that is where my deer feeder is at.

[Outdoorsfool]

Hobie - I was kind of thinking the same thing. But PS may actually have thought ahead on this one. Corn will be harvested this fall, but winter wheat will be food all winter. Once that corn gets cut, PS will have a buffet waiting for them. And by putting it along the road he won't actually have to exert any effort to view all his pet deer.

[hobiecat]

Cut?!! heck, I was out there in November and the corn wasn't cut!!

[Outdoorsfool]

Surely you jest. I mean those farmers are so worried about their crop that they have to get all those nuisance deer permits. You can't tell me they would leave it in the field one day past prime harvest time.

[PoisonSnake]

The farmer didn't get it out until turkey season.

[PoisonSnake]

Oh, and that is why it pisses me off when I hear of this dude getting nuisance tags.

[PoisonSnake]

Oh, but it makes for good hiding for the survivors of the onslaught.

[2BHNTN]

PS,

If your planning on doing these plots in the fall. I wouldn't waste the money on the roundup. Simply mow and disc it up good. Broadcast buck forage oats, Clover mix in one plot. Do cowpeas in another.


Spring plots are different deal. There is still time to get some milo in which would really round off your ablility to "observe" deer throughout he entire bowseason. Spring plots do not require but are most productive if you do as you have suggested with the roundup.

and yes I am a food plot expert and such.

[Outdoorsfool]

Why would you plant clover in the fall....especially in a brand new plot?

[2BHNTN]

Thats the best time to plant it OF. Then overseed it again in feburary, right over the snow if possible. Will come back thick in the spring. Speaking from years of experience. Thats how I have started every clover plot. Keith and Jeff have both seen the results first hand in my plots. It's a cool season forage. This approach allows the clover to get a full spring season to root in before the summer heat and dryness.

[2BHNTN]

As far as the cowpeas and buck forage oats. Plant in august and this will give you young tendor sprouts through the first hard freeze. Excellent for early bowseason.

[Outdoorsfool]

So let me see if I got this right...he wants to put a food plot in this fall and you want him to plant clover (which won't see the light of the sun till '06) and cowpeas and oats that will be dead a little into bowseason. Then he'll have bare ground from the first frost (late October or early November) until sometime next year.

That's all well and good, but in a brand new plot that clover won't do poopoo for him this fall or winter. Best bet is to get the winter wheat in (if that's what he chooses to plant) then seed the clover in early spring and again overseed in the fall/winter. He could go ahead and seed the clover with the winter wheat, but he'll get more bang for the buck if it's not free bird seed all winter long. Our clover plots have been planted this way and it works great too. Ours are not necessarily permanent plots....we put new ones in or relocate ours periodically depending on movement and conditions on neighboring farms. PS -I'm telling you, since you've sat on your this long, get a food source in that will get their attention all winter.

[PoisonSnake]

That is what the winter wheat is for damnit! You seed both this fall. Winter wheat will keep them coming in. Clover will grow, but will go bust after the first hard freeze. The following spring, I can go in there and mow the wheat, then I'll have the clover beneath to take over. I'll also reseed in February, early March.

[hobiecat]

Just plant BioLogic.

[Outdoorsfool]

That's what I'm trying to tell 2B. But he wants you to "observe" deer playing in DIRT! Might as well just build 'em a sandbox!