<![CDATA[Bowhunting.com Forums - Food Plots & Habitat Improvement]]> http://forums.bowhunting.com/ Interested in planting food plots or improving the habitat on your hunting land? This is the place for you. Be sure to visit www.foodplots.com for more information. en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:24:21 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.bowhunting.com/images/misc/rss.png <![CDATA[Bowhunting.com Forums - Food Plots & Habitat Improvement]]> http://forums.bowhunting.com/ Wicked tough pole saw?? http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48956-wicked-tough-pole-saw.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:17:36 GMT Anybody ever use this? I have a tree that looks good or my stand but there are 2 other trees that branches grow in front of it. The trees in front... Anybody ever use this? I have a tree that looks good or my stand but there are 2 other trees that branches grow in front of it. The trees in front don't look alive just dead branches. Don't trust climbing up a dead tree. Wondering of the pole saw is a good investment. ]]> Ricpac http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48956-wicked-tough-pole-saw.html Good deal on a Tiller http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48951-good-deal-tiller.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:21:53 GMT I was just going through craigslist and came across on this ad. That's a good price on a tiller for anyone in the market for one in the Kansas City area.

Rhino ST47 Tiller 3 pt hitch ]]> Skywalker http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48951-good-deal-tiller.html Food plot test, Amaranth? http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48879-food-plot-test-amaranth.html Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:49:27 GMT I was reading some articles on food plots and such and I came across an article on a plant called amaranth. I had never heard or even seen it grown... I was reading some articles on food plots and such and I came across an article on a plant called amaranth. I had never heard or even seen it grown up here in Wisconsin. This article I read the person writing it believed it was going to be the next big thing in food plots. I'm still pretty unsure about the stuff. I have been told it acts like a weed because it drops so many seeds even when it gets bumped by something walking by or the wind.

I guess people use the seeds from it to put in their salads. The seeds are pretty small and look like a poppy seed. People also pop the seeds like you would popcorn. You can also eat the leaves on the plant which have some nutritional value. I guess the seeds have a nutty flavor to them, which if so I can imagine the deer are going to love them.

Anyways, I just bought a pack of seeds on eBay 800 seeds for 3.25 so I am not going to be out much if the deer don't react to them. I plan on planting them someplace next time I'm at my cabin, I just don't know where because I don't want them to overtake my food plots if they do act like weeds and the one food plot I want to plant it by we are baiting bear this year right there so I won't get real good results there. I'm going to have to think of someplace to plant them and get a test plot for everybody to see. It might be a bust who knows.

Anybody else ever hear about this stuff? ]]> nsimmons http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48879-food-plot-test-amaranth.html Clover plot update pics http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48878-clover-plot-update-pics.html Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:49:50 GMT Our family headed up to the cabin and I checked on the food plots tonight. I have not seem them for three weeks when I fertilized. It's coming up good on spots and not so good in others. The deer are really not feeding on it.












Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ]]> BJE80 http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48878-clover-plot-update-pics.html Food and Bedding Plots are IN down in Ohio http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48853-food-bedding-plots-down-ohio.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:17:26 GMT Boy I am glad to be finally writing this about the food and bedding plots we had been planning to do for some time down in Ohio. They're in as of last Sunday!! Talk about underestimating the job. After lugging and spreading around 60 bags of ag. lime, 10 bags of fertilizer and all the seed the 5 plots we had planned were finally done.

We had sprayed the plot locations two weeks prior and when we arrived this past weekend we were happy to find they were good and dead. However, all the dead stuff was too long to till under without getting all tangled in the tiller. So we had to brush hog first. My buddy Ed had made the trip down late Thursday night and had planned to till all day, however he couldn't get started until I brought the brush hog down Friday evening. So he went and got all of the fertilizer and lime and did what he could until I arrived.

Saturday started at 7 am and other than grabbing a sandwich in the midday we finally made it back to the house around 10 pm. We brush hogged all the plots and then tilled them all first, then spread the lime, fertilizer and seed. We were able to get the Old Saw food plot done and the Sanctuary Stand food plot as well. Sunday started at the same time and we think we had everything done and all the equipment loaded for our trek back to Michigan by around 3 pm. The last 3 plots were finished at the sanctuary bedding area. As I wrapped up those plots Ed went on and brush hogged paths around the property and even a path down through the big holla. To say we both were exhausted was an understatement.

So, here is the results of our hard work so far.

This is the Old Saw food plot location. It's a small field tucked back in a corner behind a bigger agricultural field, not sure what they are planting there yet. The field is separated from that big field with a thin strip of brush and trees, very secluded. Here we planted Whitetail Select Infinity Clover.

This is what it looked like 2 weeks ago right after spraying.



Here we are spreading the lime....heck I can still taste it!







The final results........

]]> ChuckC http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48853-food-bedding-plots-down-ohio.html Buckwheat progress. http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48801-buckwheat-progress.html Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:54 GMT It's been a few years since we've planted buckwheat and since one half of our main plot needed a summer follow up to the brassicas last year, we figured why not. We'll till this under in August and plant clover, rye, and possibly oats come September. I was up mowing the other half which is residual clover that was frost seeded this winter but is getting choked out by the grasses. This will most likely be tilled under this year and we will plant a kale, purple top, and rape mixture in late July.



]]> MGH_PA http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48801-buckwheat-progress.html What to plant? http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48788-what-plant.html Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:44:49 GMT I had full intentions of planting some millet and sunflowers for dove season this year. Late rains and lots of standing water ended those thoughts.... I had full intentions of planting some millet and sunflowers for dove season this year. Late rains and lots of standing water ended those thoughts. So now, I have a co worker with a 6ft bush hog and a 6 ft roto tiller who is willing to mow and prepare a couple of food plots for me this weekend. It's too late for sunflowers to be ready by labor day weekend, so my goal is now a plot for whitetails. This will just be a general food plot, not a "kill plot" per say. It's near a 2 acre pond in an old over grown pasture, with standing hard woods, pines, and ag fields within 75 yards. What would you plant now to have a decent plot for October, November, December? thanks! ]]> buttonbuckmaster http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48788-what-plant.html Turkeys tearing up my corn. http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48780-turkeys-tearing-up-my-corn.html Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:57:02 GMT I planted all my plots for the year a few weeks ago, i have corn coming up but its spotty because the dang turkeys keep peckin corn out. So i think... I planted all my plots for the year a few weeks ago, i have corn coming up but its spotty because the dang turkeys keep peckin corn out. So i think my growth is going to be very scattered, does anyone have any tips on how to keep the turkeys off?
-Max ]]> MaxAkerman http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48780-turkeys-tearing-up-my-corn.html Monster Raxx: Part Deux http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48771-monster-raxx-part-deux.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:50:36 GMT Well, we all know how the first round went. Time for part two... Image:... Well, we all know how the first round went.

Time for part two...



I put two new Monster Raxx licks out today, both in new, heavily traveled areas. I did some trail camera scouting beforehand just to make sure both bucks and does were in the area, and they are. One has regular Monster Raxx with Cherry Attractant, the other is the prototype X version. Only time will tell...

Oh and the Covert Red40 and Black60 are armed and ready to go... ]]> Siman/OH http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48771-monster-raxx-part-deux.html QDMA Forum http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48768-qdma-forum.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:02:03 GMT Anyone know what happened to the QDMA forum? Now it seems to be just a home page, with no threads or forum format. Anyone know what happened to the QDMA forum? Now it seems to be just a home page, with no threads or forum format. ]]> Ken6 http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48768-qdma-forum.html Poor Mans Buckwheat Plot - One Month Mark. http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48767-poor-mans-buckwheat-plot-one-month-mark.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:53:15 GMT This is my buckwheat plot after a month. Its around 6" tall throughout the entire plot! I think that is pretty good, what do you guys think?

]]> Fuzz_27 http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48767-poor-mans-buckwheat-plot-one-month-mark.html slay and arrest, whitetail institute http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48749-slay-arrest-whitetail-institute.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:02:14 GMT anybody ever use slay or arrest with the surefire crop oil to spray their clover food plots? i sprayed my imperial clover plot a week ago and went... anybody ever use slay or arrest with the surefire crop oil to spray their clover food plots? i sprayed my imperial clover plot a week ago and went back today and it doesnt look like it killed any of the weeds. I bought these herbicides because this is what whitetail institute sugested. any imput will help thnks ]]> calcium http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48749-slay-arrest-whitetail-institute.html what to plant? http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48745-what-plant.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:14:39 GMT what would you suggest to plant for just a little 20 yard area that is an open grass field that is surrounded by woods? Just need something cheap and... what would you suggest to plant for just a little 20 yard area that is an open grass field that is surrounded by woods? Just need something cheap and grows fairly easy and will attract some deer. Usually get a bunch of does and just a few passing bucks, would like to get something to keep the bucks around and coming in. ]]> munnj http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48745-what-plant.html Mean Bean Crush http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48694-mean-bean-crush.html Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:03:27 GMT Anyone have any pictures of their Mean Bean Crush food plot? Or has anyone had any luck planting it? I am thinking of planting this with Shotplot... Anyone have any pictures of their Mean Bean Crush food plot? Or has anyone had any luck planting it? I am thinking of planting this with Shotplot in the middle of July. ]]> dbl lung http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48694-mean-bean-crush.html Sunflowers........Maybe http://forums.bowhunting.com/food-plots-habitat-improvement/48678-sunflowers-maybe.html Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:38:26 GMT Replanted the other day. Looks like I might end up with 25 percent. The picture makes it look worse, but I have to admit I am dissapointed and will... Replanted the other day. Looks like I might end up with 25 percent. The picture makes it look worse, but I have to admit I am dissapointed and will go further west about 30 yards next year.:rant:
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