Food Plots only one crop you could put

[KENBOB10]

In a food plot here in East Tn. What would it be?

 

[BSK]

Warm season or cool season?

I guess if I had just one plant I could put in, it would be a good perennial clover.

 

[KENBOB10]

Kinda both Brian. I feel good about it, because that's what I put out. One plot I went willy nilly with some corn too.

 

[Boll Weevil]

I guess if I had just one plant I could put in, it would be a good perennial clover.

I'm not in east TN but agree w/BSK. Just really hard to beat when it comes to ease of establishment, annual maintenance, and longterm cost-effectiveness when compared to other crops.

 

[spoon]

Clover

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

Clover

 

[AT Hiker]

I guess if I had just one plant I could put in, it would be a good perennial clover.

I'm not in east TN but agree w/BSK. Just really hard to beat when it comes to ease of establishment, annual maintenance, and longterm cost-effectiveness when compared to other crops.

Until you have the only clover plot around and the critters wear it down to nothing, I keep making mine bigger and all it does is attract more animals. Turkeys seem to literally lay a clover plot down in the fall, looks like a crop circle gone bad.

 

[BSK]

I guess if I had just one plant I could put in, it would be a good perennial clover.

I'm not in east TN but agree w/BSK. Just really hard to beat when it comes to ease of establishment, annual maintenance, and longterm cost-effectiveness when compared to other crops.

Until you have the only clover plot around and the critters wear it down to nothing, I keep making mine bigger and all it does is attract more animals. Turkeys seem to literally lay a clover plot down in the fall, looks like a crop circle gone bad.

True, but any other crop would get hit even harder than a clover plot. Clover handles excessive browse pressure better than just about any other available food plot plant.

And by the way, by late winter, mine look like mud wallows too. When it's the only game in town, they get hit really hard.

 

[Hunter 257W]

Since KenBob is in East TN with lower deer numbers, I don't think there will be a problem with the clover being eaten down. I'd expect he's free to focus on growing whatver is most attractive to the deer. Imperial clover growing in good soil is going to be hard to beat in that case.

 

[barkscraper]

Small plot clover, 3 acres or more no question soybeans

 

[buckaroo]

To go further what type clovers would you mix in?

 

[muddyboots]

Durana

 

[Boll Weevil]

Durana

Agree. I'd mix Durana with some more Durana...and overseed with Durana as needed (once every 7 years).

 

[BSK]

Since KenBob is in East TN with lower deer numbers, I don't think there will be a problem with the clover being eaten down. I'd expect he's free to focus on growing whatver is most attractive to the deer. Imperial clover growing in good soil is going to be hard to beat in that case.

Considering the lack of agriculture common to East TN, even with a lower deer density, many food plots are hit harder in East TN than in Middle or West TN, where other food sources are more plentiful.

 

[PcDeer]

Durana

Agree. I'd mix Durana with some more Durana...and overseed with Durana as needed (once every 7 years).

I will second this but would add some Durana. Deer and turkeys love it!

 

[Boone 58]

Clover would be hard to beat, but I plant wheat with a clover mix because they compliment each other well and I can tell you this makes a great plot for wayne county.

 

[Hunter 257W]

Since KenBob is in East TN with lower deer numbers, I don't think there will be a problem with the clover being eaten down. I'd expect he's free to focus on growing whatver is most attractive to the deer. Imperial clover growing in good soil is going to be hard to beat in that case.

Considering the lack of agriculture common to East TN, even with a lower deer density, many food plots are hit harder in East TN than in Middle or West TN, where other food sources are more plentiful.

I don't know, it's just hard for me to believe that. I am on the Eastern edge of unit L here in Franklin county and I never see the "eaten to the dirt" food plots that people always talk about. I can't imagine having that trouble in places where there are very few deer.

 

[BSK]

Since KenBob is in East TN with lower deer numbers, I don't think there will be a problem with the clover being eaten down. I'd expect he's free to focus on growing whatver is most attractive to the deer. Imperial clover growing in good soil is going to be hard to beat in that case.

Considering the lack of agriculture common to East TN, even with a lower deer density, many food plots are hit harder in East TN than in Middle or West TN, where other food sources are more plentiful.

I don't know, it's just hard for me to believe that. I am on the Eastern edge of unit L here in Franklin county and I never see the "eaten to the dirt" food plots that people always talk about. I can't imagine having that trouble in places where there are very few deer.

If there is no other food source in the area, one or two deer can do a lot of damage to a small plot, especially in late winter, when little plant growth is occurring.