BSK

[PickettSFHunter]

I know you have successful food plots on your farm that are in poor and probably rocky soil? What I was wondering is, did you do anything to build up the soil such as burning stuff on it, spreading rotten hay, etc? If so what did you do to accomplish this? I can tell on my place where the old homesteads were that they pulled all of the rocks out of their garden plots and then made fences out of the rocks, I am going to be doing that for plots and it will be backbreaking Im sure. Thanks for help.

 

[BSK]

I wouldn't really consider my food plots "successful." They are useful attractants in fall, but that's because wheat doesn't require much to grow. I've given up on summer plots until I can afford a good-sized 4-wheel-drive tractor and all the appropriate accessories.

The most "helpful" thing I've done is to keep mowing more biomass down onto the ground. It only takes a year or two before all that biomass breaks down into humus.

But honestly, burning the mowed duff would help even more. Unfortunately, I've got a very health fear of fire, and I've never used it where it didn't get out of control at some point!