A friend of mine told me he put out shelled peanuts. He said he has never used them but, read online that deer tear them up. If so, I may have to try to plant some next year. Not sure they will grow but, it may be worth trying. Anyone ever heard of using peanuts?
That would be pretty expensive to put out, also i dont want to share my peanuts. :D planting them would.be the best bet, I would.say they world grow in your area.
Here is my answer if they will grow here. In 1983, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, and North Carolina grew 80% of the 1,375,000 acres of peanut in the United States. Virginia, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, and New Mexico were the other states with more than 10,000 acres of peanut. From other reports I have read in the past few minutes, deer love them. We will see. It is however to late to plant them.
My cousin swears by this. He screws a peanut butter lid to a tree, then cuts the bottom of the jar out and screws it into the lid. He just cuts the jar down as necessary
I made peanut butter licks the past 2 seasons. Worked great! Wax up a solo cup thread a 3" dry wall through the bottom. Make it into a peanut brittle and pour it in. Let it set up an screw it into a tree. Worked great!
I think there are probably better alternatives to peanuts. Clover, soybeans, and alfalfa are what I'd go with when planting a new plot.
I can't seem to get them to hit my food plots. The ONLY thing I have any pics of them in or seen them eating was turnips and that wasn't much. Clover, brassicas, alfalfa, oats, winter peas, I have tried all these. They have corn everywhere and of course it rotates yearly to soy bean. I need something that is more of a treat. I have persimmons on my property and blackberries but, the berries are gone before the season starts. Persimmons last a couple months at best. We are less than a month in and they are almost gone. I need a tasty little desert for them. Maybe next year I will plant Sunflowers and peanuts. If strawberries weren't so difficult to plant, I'd do some of those as well.
APPLES!!! Haul out as many as you can get. The deer will be there all day long every day. Even if they run out the deer come back to the site to see if you have relenished the crop. Even if you don't like hunting over bait just set up in the area. Deer come from every direction to visit the pile. My neighbors depend on me to clean up around their apple trees and I do it willingly.
Not sure the cost effectiveness as a food plot, but peanuts are grown for agricultural purposes in my area and yes deer love them. They are a legume which is the same plant class as alfala and high in protein. I am sure they root out the peanuts in the fall, but it is primarily the tops that deer eat. They are a summer crop and are harvested in early fall, so it not a crop thst lasts the entire season.
