Food Plots Now, just need that rain

[deerhunter10]

I'll believe it when it falls from the sky. Same models as before and we barely got 3/4s of an inch. East tn is in the money. Middle to west we will see.

 

[BSK]

We got 0.66" on Tuesday. Hoping for 4" Friday-Sunday.

 

[348Winchester]

I bet the weathergirl would love 6-8 inches!

 

[lafn96]

I'll believe it when it falls from the sky. Same models as before and we barely got 3/4s of an inch. East tn is in the money. Middle to west we will see.

I'm between Sweetwater and Athens; only got 4/10ths so far. Weather underground still says we'll get 2" today; we'll see

 

[backyardtndeer]

Good for you!

Hopefully the plot will be good for my wife and son to get opportunities on a good deer, and be good for the local wildlife as well. We don't have much ground, so try to do what i can to encourage deer to use our property. I usually prefer to hunt more in the woods, but I definitely won't pass hunting a plot if a deer I am after is showing up there.

 

[BSK]

Hopefully the plot will be good for my wife and son to get opportunities on a good deer, and be good for the local wildlife as well. We don't have much ground, so try to do what i can to encourage deer to use our property. I usually prefer to hunt more in the woods, but I definitely won't pass hunting a plot if a deer I am after is showing up there.

For us, the problem is attracting deer to the highest hunting pressure property in the area. Few of my neighbors hunt hard anymore. We've got a lot of hunters in the woods on my place, producing a lot of pressure. The three things that draw deer to our place is 1) acorns, but we don't have any this year; 2) food plots, and it was looking like we wouldn't have those either; and lastly 3) thick security cover, of which we have the best of that among the surrounding properties.

Problem is, last time we didn't have acorns or food plots (2022) we had the worst season in 20 years.

 

[DPinTN]

We've had just over an inch this week at our club on the plateau and finally a 1/2" in sumner county.

 

[BSK]

We've had just over an inch this week at our club on the plateau and finally a 1/2" in sumner county.

I just checked a client's weather station on the Plateau above Dunlap, 4.79"!

 

[backyardtndeer]

Walked back this morning, already have germination.

 

[deerhunter10]

Well they weren't wrong on this one. Crazy how fast our ground has taken the rain. Hardly no puddles anywhere very very thankful.

 

[backyardtndeer]

I believe we are going to have a good outcome with this plot redo. Clover was old seed, but looks like it's coming in fine. 8 days after planting.

 

[lafn96]

Coming up surprisingly well from when I broadcast 3 weeks ago before a predicted 1.5" that was only 1/10"; then I overseeded last week right before we got 6" of slow rain.

 

[BSK]

Those look really good backyardtndeer and lafn96.

Won't get a chance to see mine until next week.

 

[megalomaniac]

Mine have really popped just 4 days after the big rain. Tiny shoots this soon, but good germination

 

[backyardtndeer]

Had a flock of turkeys in the mixed grass beside the plot and a few in the plot when I walked back this morning to check on it. Filling in nicely.

 

[BSK]

Deer are HAMMERING the Buckwheat. I won't need a freeze to kill it back. Deer will have eaten it all by then. Bu it's doing its job - taking the browse pressure of the main plantings: Crimson Clover and Wheat. Crimson Clover is now forming into a solid mat in all my plots.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Should be a good draw through season.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Should be a good draw through season.
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Nice! Looks great!