What to plant in Hidey Hole plots?
Filed under: Food Plots
What will you guys be planting in the “Hidey Hole” plot that the team started working in the most recent episode? I hunt a similar area where I need such strategy but I have absolutely no experience with farming. I’m a student of the game and I’ve given this much thought but I still have a lot to learn. My concerns are a seed plant that can withstand some browse pressure and hopefully something that will still be desirable in the late season. I’m also curious about how the grade of the terrain will effect small plots. I’ll be doing this in the northern tip of Kentucky. Thank you for any information and God bless all of you at the proving grounds.
Mark,
Thank you for asking God to bless us!! Your prayers are sincerely appreciated!
I’ve been using the Broadside seed blend from http://www.EagleSeed.com for years. I like it because it includes a soybean variety that germinates rapidly. Deer are very attracted to young soybeans during the early fall. These soybeans attract deer to the plot. As deer are consuming the soybeans they find the radishes. Deer tend to eat the radishes next. As deer are consuming the radishes the forage wheat is producing forage and becoming very attractive to deer.
Broadside also includes two types of brassicas. One produces forage and the other produces forage and a large bulb. Deer tend to consume the brassica forage and bulbs during the late season.
The forage wheat will flush again during the early spring providing quality food for deer and turkeys. This blend has worked well to attract deer during the early, mid, and late season. In addition, we’ve tagged a pile of turkeys in these plots during the spring!
The combination of forage varieties does a great job of ‘mining” or “recycling” nutrients from deep in the soil and preparing a great seedbed for the crop next spring. We’ll start planting Broadside later this week. I like to plant Broadside 60 – 45 days before the average first frost date. That’s about October 10th here at my place.
Enjoy creation,
grant
