casts_by_fly
Well-Known Member
Hi gents,
Watching various hunting videos we can see these 1 acre beautiful food plots that have been nicely tilled and sprayed to the point they look like a food crop for humans. We're not talking about that here. I don't know about you guys, but I don't have the land, equipment, or time to pull that off. However, what I do have is a 1/10th acre strip on the north side of a hill that's technically a power line but that I can put a little plot on. Half is sunny most of the day and half is shaded by trees most of the day and year. I also have a couple spots in amongst trees that I can rake up and drop some seed (full shade and nothing I can do about it).
I have a backpack sprayer from my lawn but otherwise we're talking full manual here. No irrigation or supplemental water. Last year on one of the strips I put down some white dutch clover seed which germinated and kinda grew a little but the trees shortly cut off sunlight so it stopped. It will pick up again in the spring until the leaves come in and we'll see how much growth I can get.
We don't have any agricultural fields around (all ag is high fenced here) so a small food plot like this is going to pull a bunch of deer. I want it for that (as a kill plot) and to survey what deer are around earlier in the year than I do now.
Anyone done something like this? What kind of crop/seed/plant would grow?
thanks,
rick
Watching various hunting videos we can see these 1 acre beautiful food plots that have been nicely tilled and sprayed to the point they look like a food crop for humans. We're not talking about that here. I don't know about you guys, but I don't have the land, equipment, or time to pull that off. However, what I do have is a 1/10th acre strip on the north side of a hill that's technically a power line but that I can put a little plot on. Half is sunny most of the day and half is shaded by trees most of the day and year. I also have a couple spots in amongst trees that I can rake up and drop some seed (full shade and nothing I can do about it).
I have a backpack sprayer from my lawn but otherwise we're talking full manual here. No irrigation or supplemental water. Last year on one of the strips I put down some white dutch clover seed which germinated and kinda grew a little but the trees shortly cut off sunlight so it stopped. It will pick up again in the spring until the leaves come in and we'll see how much growth I can get.
We don't have any agricultural fields around (all ag is high fenced here) so a small food plot like this is going to pull a bunch of deer. I want it for that (as a kill plot) and to survey what deer are around earlier in the year than I do now.
Anyone done something like this? What kind of crop/seed/plant would grow?
thanks,
rick