Posted By: lckrn
Food Plots - 09/13/14 04:00 PM
Planted these with buck forage oats Labor Day weekend. Put in some work to get these done, total of 160 bags of lime, 40 bags of triple 13 and 650 pounds of oats. Three food plots, largest 2 acres and smallest just under an acre.
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You da man. They look dang good.
Posted By: JA
Re: Food Plots - 09/13/14 04:42 PM
Those look great. Need to put a camera or two out and get some good pics.
Posted By: Goose11
Re: Food Plots - 09/13/14 08:36 PM
Looks great!! You'll kill a few on those!!
Posted By: M48scout
Re: Food Plots - 09/13/14 08:51 PM
Beautiful spots! You'll be proud to see the first deer stroll out on it come deer-thirty on opening day
Posted By: AUstan23
Re: Food Plots - 09/14/14 01:58 PM
Okay, I'm jealous...but seriously, looks great
Posted By: blumsden
Re: Food Plots - 09/15/14 06:32 AM
Looking real good. Just curious why you planted just BFO, and nothing else? The reason i ask, is that oats can winter kill, during exreme cold weather.
Posted By: jlbuc10
Re: Food Plots - 09/15/14 11:25 AM
650 lbs of oats on 3 plots 2 acres and smaller? Is that like 150lbs of oats per acre? It looks great though! maybe I need to step up my seeding rate
Posted By: blumsden
Re: Food Plots - 09/15/14 12:59 PM
I can't get anything to grow in a 10-12' circle around my red oaks in my plots. I have sandy soil. I'm thinking of putting wheat straw over my seed to see if that helps hold some moisture. Not sure if its a moisture or nutrient defeciency.
Posted By: muzziehead
Re: Food Plots - 09/15/14 03:55 PM
Nice looking plots. Are the deer grazing them yet. I have found that whenever we plant early, and I consider Labor Day weekend early, we always have to come back and overseed because the deer wipe them completely out by the time season opens.
Posted By: lckrn
Re: Food Plots - 09/15/14 06:51 PM
Can't tell if the deer are hitting them hard yet, grass is kinda thick. Got cameras out and plan to check them latter this week.
It's about 150 per acre, only reason was just had 3 plots to plant and my dad bought 900 pounds of BFO. Save the last 250 for the one acre food plot at the house lol.
The BFO held up good last year until mid January after that 2nd hard freeze where we stayed below freezing 3-4 days so it should be fine. The deer where I'm at come in really good the the BFO but mostly these plots are just for show, it's all standing hardwoods on 80% of our club and these sit almost in the middle of the hunting club on my little 40acres. Will all the acorns in and around these plots I'll be sitting in the woods this year instead of on the food-plots.
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They look good....