Food Plots Microplot Success

[Outdoor Enthusiast]

I tried something new this year and I am pleasantly surprised with the outcome.

The day before the rain from Helene came through NE middle TN I decided to broadcast some seed in a small area where our cattle bed through the summer. It's a patch of locust trees that offer good shade on top of the ridge. It was essentially bare ground of mud and cow manure with some leaf cover.

I did nothing but throw out some seed with some great rain timing. I also grabbed a bag of food plot seed from TSC a few weeks later and cast on top to fill in gaps.

Right now it's looking really good and I have been getting lots of pics of bucks and does feeding. Several mature bucks in daylight as well which is cool.

 

[megalomaniac]

Wow, home run on that plot!!!

 

[PRICE]

Very nice

 

[Outdoor Enthusiast]

Wow, home run on that plot!!!

Yep. Killed one of my target 4.5 yo bucks in it when he came through checking some does right at dark during MZ season.

 

[Popcorn]

I wish I could get away with micro plots, they keep them wiped out. I have 1 maybe 2/10 acre in the woods, south facing slope between bedding and row crop ground. It's a moist slope so moisture is never an issue. I plant that ground 4 and 5X's a year and it's great for does with bows but they keep it mowed.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Nice! Looks great!

 

[Outdoor Enthusiast]

The deer started to pound this little plot over the past week since the rut wound down. Plus the heavy frost knocked down the leafy foliage.

Does frost on turnips and radishes change how deer are attracted to it?

 

[Tn Joe]

Does frost on turnips and radishes change how deer are attracted to it?

Big time! Supposedly it changes the sugar content. And they really hit them hard.

 

[Popcorn]

Big time! Supposedly it changes the sugar content. And they really hit them hard.

They dig my turnips out of the snow for this reason!

 

[Bgoodman30]

Which seed mixes did you sow?

 

[Popcorn]

Springtime varies mid summer same but come august 15 it's wheat, cereal rye, turnips and radishes. Sometimes I keep a pound of balansa clover seed for this fall planting

 

[Outdoor Enthusiast]

Springtime varies mid summer same but come august 15 it's wheat, cereal rye, turnips and radishes. Sometimes I keep a pound of balansa clover seed for this fall planting

I did something very similar. It was heavy on turnips and radishes. Maybe no wheat though.