Food Plots Food plot size, shape, and location

[BSK]

You mentioned to me that you bush hog your clover in may when it heads out, isn't the most important time of year for antler growth spring and summer? Seems you would want something during these months that really promotes the growth

The crimson clover and wheat that I grew in the fall and winter seed out and die in mid-May (they are both annuals - you only get one growing season out of them), so that is when I plant my summer crops. I spread the summer seed into the standing dead clover/wheat and then mow all the dead material down onto the seed. Works very well, even for larger-seeded plants like soybeans. I wait for the crimson to seed and die because that allows me to have next fall's seed already on the ground. The crimson clover seed heads contain way more seed than what is needed for planting a tilled plot, so I don't have to buy/spread any in the fall. If you don't let the seed die and dry, it won't germinate the following fall.

And as for early spring, Nature takes care of that. The early growth of plants in spring is incredibly digestible and nutritious, and deer often stop using the plots all together once green-up starts. They move back to the plots by mid-June.

 

[hbg1]

The crimson clover and wheat that I grew in the fall and winter seed out and die in mid-May (they are both annuals - you only get one growing season out of them), so that is when I plant my summer crops. I spread the summer seed into the standing dead clover/wheat and then mow all the dead material down onto the seed. Works very well, even for larger-seeded plants like soybeans. I wait for the crimson to seed and die because that allows me to have next fall's seed already on the ground. The crimson clover seed heads contain way more seed than what is needed for planting a tilled plot, so I don't have to buy/spread any in the fall. If you don't let the seed die and dry, it won't germinate the following fall.

And as for early spring, Nature takes care of that. The early growth of plants in spring is incredibly digestible and nutritious, and deer often stop using the plots all together once green-up starts. They move back to the plots by mid-June.

is the sorghum and buckwheat very nutritional