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BowGuy84

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Well, I finally have a sizeable food plot. It's between 1.5 and 2 acres (180 yards long and 30-40 yards wide). Im trying to decide a year round plan for it. For some reason I am against clover...maybe I shoulnt be and I could be convinced otherwise.

My tenative plan is to plant buckwheat this summer and add lime...hopefully this will increase org. material and boost nitrogen. Not sure what I do after the buckwheat...suggestions? My deer have hit winter wheat hard the past few years but I want to give more variety in the future.

I have plans to expand my 3rd plot to an irregular shaped acre or better too...its slowly coming along!
 
If you can get a decent stand of clover, then just overseed wheat/rape/etc you pretty much have a year round plot. just my 2 cents.
 
I really like clover,and the deer do too it seems
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Stays around all year,good for them,I overseed a little in Feb/March,add lime and fert as needed.Then a little wheat on top.What could be better.
 
I dont know I was thinking about planting something like sargum or corn to add cover to the plot to try and encourage daytime useage. Its pretty rectangular and open...not sure how much daytime movement I'll see in it with low growing stuff.
 
BowGuy84 said:
I dont know I was thinking about planting something like sargum or corn to add cover to the plot to try and encourage daytime useage. Its pretty rectangular and open...not sure how much daytime movement I'll see in it with low growing stuff.
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I rarely hunt "over" my plot after the first week or 2 of bow,instead I would suggest hunting,trails,funnels etc on the way to the food source,especially if your after a big/older buck.
 
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Clover, Clover, Clover lol Chicory mixed in in case of summer drought. This plot stays fairly shady and moist though so I havent had any drought problems yet. Im not sure you'll have enough acreage there for beans or corn to be effective.
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Football Hunter said:
BowGuy84 said:
I dont know I was thinking about planting something like sargum or corn to add cover to the plot to try and encourage daytime useage. Its pretty rectangular and open...not sure how much daytime movement I'll see in it with low growing stuff.
Click to expand...
I rarely hunt "over" my plot after the first week or 2 of bow,instead I would suggest hunting,trails,funnels etc on the way to the food source,especially if your after a big/older buck.
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I have a few areas in the woods that I hunt, but most of mine is too thick right now...getting better every year. I see most of my bucks off the edge of plots by 70-80 yards. I am hoping to have a plot that will draw deer later and make them feel secure.
 
cover might be the answer...Might put clover around the outside or in the middle and plant something like sargum that isnt tasty to deer until later but provides cover around the outside...

BTW great pics Steven. Always like the looks of the clover plot on the mountain.
 
Next year I plan on doing a plot in soybeans for the summer, then forage oats and WW in late Aug, early Sept. For the clover, I plan on cutting some nice wide 7-8 ft trails through the property basically with an "all roads lead to the plot". I'm going to do 4-5ft wide paths of clover right down the middle of the trails. Use the clover to lead them to the food. There was a spring on the property years ago that got filled in, and I'm hoping to find it and get an artisian well going. High hopes.
 
Clover, you mite try half of each plot in clover...my Imperial Whitetail, got burn down this year, in a new 7 acre field, but it has come back with the fall rains...the deer never quit feeding on it...late season last year had up to 35 deer at a time in it
 
gmckinney,

That sounds pretty interesting, although I'm curious whether the bigger, more wary deer will stick to your little micro-plots along the trails instead of coming to the main field.

Perhaps if you put the stand at a point where you could see down 2-3 of these trails, you might see an increase in daytime usage of the trails by bucks that would ordinarily not want to step into the open. If you planted areas that weren't visible, I'm afraid you might decrease your sightings.

Just a thought.
 

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