Do you foodplot?

I have about 200+ wild apple trees on the 35 acres that I own and hunt. There are so many apples each year that I'd say 90% of them rot on the ground. The one tree I watch the deer eat them from each year on my game camera has apples a little smaller than a golf ball. They're quite tart and I have no idea of the variety. You can see part of the tree in the background of the fawn photo I posted. Here's a pic of the apples I took just now on a walk:


Photo of apples littering the ground at the edge of the plot (different tree than one above):


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I never pick a ground fallen apple off the ground in my yard where there are 5 trees.

 

First year with a food plot for me. More of a micro plot, 1/8 of an acre. Tough year for me with just having my first kid and the hunting property two hours away. It looks horrible, put out turnips and red clover. Hit the area with glyphosate too early and didn't fully kill all the native grass. Either way though I've got clover coming up with a lot of grass in it. Deer are still hitting it on the way to the neighbors beans. I'm calling it a success, deer are showing up and I know more about food plots than I did in February. Next season I'm gonna have 3 micro plots going hopefully.

 

I should say that the deer density where I live is really low; around 10 deer per square mile, so that plays part in apples not being eaten. I do wish they'd eat more because they can be ankle breakers are the way in and out in the dark.

 

A bit off topic but here's a good moose I got on camera passing through the plot the other night:

 

That's what I'd like to hunt! Thanks for posting those"off topic" pix...We don't get much of that out here in the Midwest

 

Parker Pear trees

 

Thanks!

 

I have a 3/4 acre clover plot and a 1/2 acre winter rye plot---clover for early season winter rye for later fall archery season----REMEMBER GUYS---you will get a lot of dies and fawns in your plots early especially---THAT THE KEY----keep the does and fawns coming late oct early November the area bucks will make visits at all times of day---I have shot bucks I have never se3en on cams or in person each year 8 and 10 pointers, p s the big boys will visit small plots easier---my winter rye plot is shaped like a pear bigger balloon bottom narrower top, guess where all the big bucks show up ? The narrower end, Guess where my ladder stand is ?

 

Wider end?


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