Now that bow season is over I'm thinking of uping my chances next year. Hears my situation. I live on 13 acres which is not quite enough. I have private land next to mine that has a nice field and my neibor gets sugar beats every year to feed the deer. I want to plant something to get them going through my land on the way to my neibors field. I have a trail that goes all the way around my land and I was thinking of planting imperial whitetail clover on it. I would also like to plant two other small openings in my woods with something else. Any suggestions on what might work here in northern MN. I don't have any equipment to work up my ground so I was going to just get it to black dirt and plant on top, then rake it over. Any suggestions would be great.
I have about 11 plots and we use the Imperial Whitetail clover. We have been using it for about 3 years and it has worked great for us. We just disk the ground and spread it. Get a piece of Cattle panel (piece of fence) and drag it behind something after you spread it. It has worked for us. If you already have a plot out we over seed in the snow. We go out with a hand spreader and spread it in the snow. When the snow melts it takes it into the ground. We have tried a lot of products and the best thing that has worked for us is the Imperial Clover. It gets a lot colder where your from so try a couple of different things to see how it lasts.
Cool thanks for the advise. I've never heard of seading when the snow is still on the ground. Interesting idea though. Do you think that the imperial clover is something that will hold up being planted on a trail that I will drive my atv over? I'd hate to plant it and have it come up and then ruin it with my 4 wheeler.
Any other products that anyone thinks might work well for my situation? I wouldn't mind planting the trail with the imperial clover and the 2 small plots with something else. I was thinking alfalfa or a brasica maybe?
Planting oats or wheat in the fall would be a magnet in the plots. Or like you said brassicas would be great too if your deer like them, some don't.
