What can you mix with food plot clover?

Wheat – Wheat is a cool-season cereal grain that is easy to establish, quick to germinate, and a great choice for fall hunting plots, especially when mixed with other species such as clovers. Chicory – Chicory is a tough cool-season perennial crop that is a preferred deer forage.

What is the best fertilizer for clover food plots?

Most often the best fertilizer for clover will recommend around 300 lbs of 0-20-20 per acre annually. Many choose to fertilize at planting time and then during the spring annually thereafter.

What can I plant in a wooded food plot?

The clear choice for many is white clover. With the ability to sprawl, grow great in shade, and take a beating from browsing deer, clover makes the ideal species for food plots in the woods.

Can you mix food plot seeds?

Be sure to mix together carefully all seeds selected for your mix in order to achieve even plant distribution on the food plot. Many highly advertised premixed seeds are expensive. If there were three different plant seeds in the mix, then there were three times too many seeds for the acre.

Do deer like red or white clover?

You can get clover at any farm or ag store, in red, white or crimson varieties, and all will attract deer. But if you’re planting specifically as a flood plot the specially designed cultivars from some of the major food plot companies will be even better.

What is a deer’s favorite clover?

At the Mississippi Deer Lab, Frosty Berseem clover was considered the best clover for deer, found to be preferred over every other clover available. Ladino Clover – This perennial clover is a hybrid developed specifically for food plots. It gives both deer and turkeys exactly what they need, in an easy to seed clover.

When should clover be mowed?

If not, the best time to mow is when you see clover plants begin to flower. Mowing will stall the maturation process and promote growth of runners and “daughter” plants. Another general rule of thumb is to wait until plants are 8-12 inches tall, then mow them down to 4 or 5 inches.

Does lime help clover?

Clover needs water, sun and lime (in most soil) for good germination. Clover gets its phosphate and potash from the soil and its nitrogen from the air through a bacterium that lives on its roots. Lime is necessary to bring the pH of the soil up to the neutral range (6.0 to 7.0 for the best performance).

What food plots grow in shade?

Best food plot seed for low light

• The best food plot seed for low light and shady conditions are cereal rye, wheat, oats, subterranean clover, ladino clover, and some brassicas.
• You can’t talk about low light food plots without talking about cereal rye.
• Wheat is a super attractive plant to whitetails.

Will throw and grow work in the woods?

If you use some common sense and take the time to get a soil test, and throw down some lime or 10-10-10, you will have fantastic results. I planted this food plot in the far back woods, and it’s in an old creek bed that intersects with an old dirt road.

Can you plant soybeans and clover together?

By combining a healthy stand of clover with Eagle Seed soybeans you can continue attracting and holding whitetails on your property. We try to plant 10% of our food plot acreage in clover. Clover and Eagle Seed soybeans fill each other’s void beautifully, and together they are quite the deadly duo of food plots.

Can you plant clover and turnips together?

Different turnip varieties produce different proportions of leaves and roots. Turnips can be planted as a stand-alone crop at a rate of 5 lbs./acre. They can also be planted in combination with other forages such as clovers, chicory or some type of cereal grain.

Why sweet spot deer food plot mix?

Sweet Spot deer food plot mixes are more effective on a deer’s complex digestive system, which can not process proteins without carbohydrates (sugars). Other food plot mixes are packed with proteins, but don’t deliver the sugars deer need to process that protein and grow.

Why plant a deer food plot for deer hunting?

Because of the massive tonnage per acre that each blend’s leaves and roots provide, they offer the northern hunters more than a season-long food source. When planted in adequate amounts and with a variety of other food sources, deer can be found feeding in these food plots all the way up until spring melt.

Is clover or alfalfa better for food plots?

However, when a tender stalked, grazing alfalfa plot is thriving in the right location; it can be a dynamite early-season producer. Clover is easier to grow in that the germination rates are typically higher and it can handle a lower pH. There are plenty of different varieties offered by almost every food plot seed company in existence.

What is the best Clover mix to plant in a plot?

The seed I’d selected for the plot was Antler King’s Trophy Clover Mix. A quick broadcasting of the seeds at approximately 1.5 times the recommended amount and one more culti-packing, and all that was left was praying for rain and waiting the month and a half for the season to start.