Food plots.

[CJ1]

The Mississippi is right around 15 miles as the crow flies from where we are. You will see some of the younger does and bucks stick around over the winter. But the older ones leave. Leaving the younger to go hungry and get picked off by the growing coyote population and other larger predators that have been moving south.

As a side note. When I got home from work I took my afternoon walk and saw signs of pig. So I suppose it's time to do some summer time culling. They can do a lot of damage really quick.

Looks like I'm calling in to work on Saturday.

 

[tortoise]

Last year our food plots flopped. DH did soil test last week, there's NO nitrogen in the soil. NONE. He bought fertilizer.

We plan to plant alfalfa, kale, and sunflowers in food plots. Sunflower because the ground squirrels eat sunflower seed out of the garden!!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sounds like an idea worth trying!

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

I'm curious to know how many others on this site maintain a food plot for their wildlife? I'd also like to hear what all you folks plant in them? Are you focusing on summer and fall feeding or late fall winter feeding or if you plant for all four seasons.

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and methods.

what we usually do is buy the yummiest Mayonaise, then hard boil some eggs, blend the eggs with the Mayonaise, add salt and pepper. This mayo-egg sandwich is good with toasted, or plain bread.

 

[wyoDreamer]

@YourRabbitGirl Have you ever made homemade Mayo? it is so good!
I love Egg Salad Sandwiches. The only time I like the soft store breads.

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

I'm curious to know how many others on this site maintain a food plot for their wildlife? I'd also like to hear what all you folks plant in them? Are you focusing on summer and fall feeding or late fall winter feeding or if you plant for all four seasons.

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and methods.

Mine focused on summer and rainy season plants, those types of plants that can survive both hot and rainy seasons, we do have a lot of those types of plants here.

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

I'm curious to know how many others on this site maintain a food plot for their wildlife? I'd also like to hear what all you folks plant in them? Are you focusing on summer and fall feeding or late fall winter feeding or if you plant for all four seasons.

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and methods.

I would love to have somewhat like a guide for that, I bet it will be very very helpful. Do you have any document that I can follow for that?

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

I'm curious to know how many others on this site maintain a food plot for their wildlife? I'd also like to hear what all you folks plant in them? Are you focusing on summer and fall feeding or late fall winter feeding or if you plant for all four seasons.

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and methods.

After you have planted and the seeds have germinated — and during the growing season — you may need to keep fertilizing the plots, so they remain healthy and attractive to the deer. It is recommended that 150 pounds of 33-0-0 or 34-0-0 per acre be added every four to six weeks during the growing season.

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

I'm curious to know how many others on this site maintain a food plot for their wildlife? I'd also like to hear what all you folks plant in them? Are you focusing on summer and fall feeding or late fall winter feeding or if you plant for all four seasons.

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and methods.

Provide food to the rabbits to feed. Rabbits like a variety of green plants growing in flower beds and vegetable gardens. Plant your favorites — clover, lettuce and carrots. Stop growing crops they don't like, such as potatoes, corn, tomatoes and cucumbers.

 

[YourRabbitGirl]

I'm curious to know how many others on this site maintain a food plot for their wildlife? I'd also like to hear what all you folks plant in them? Are you focusing on summer and fall feeding or late fall winter feeding or if you plant for all four seasons.

I really look forward to hearing everyone's opinions and methods.

Most common crops in the garden – alfalfa, clover, annual rye, kale (and its close relative, rape), turnips, mustard, buckwheat and grain grasses – provide ample poultry feed. Anything can be cut and taken to the chickens, so the chickens can graze certain crops.