Summer food plots.
 

Anyone do summer/warm season food plots? I was looking into a mix of iron claypeas and milo. We usually just do winter food plots but this year was thinking about giving it a run.

I use to plant iron clays and soy beans. I would have to replant each month. The deer would eat them before they had a chance to grow. We had 7 deer killed out of that stand that year. My buddy sold his tractor and haven't been able to do it again.

Try some "American Joint Vetch". Buy the hulled seeds. Plant at this time of the year for this. Put some quick release lime and fertilizer in the ground, disk it up and plant your seeds.

Vetch & arrow leaf clover. They'll eat soybeans & IC peas up too fast to do them any good unless you have 10 acres to plant. Vetch & Arrow leaf is very browse tolerant.

I will be finishing up my planting this weekend. I am more concerned about my dove plots so my kids have some birds to shoot in September. We have a high deer/acre count, so I planted a "sacrificial" plot of IC Peas which is roughly 2 acres in size 3 weeks ago. My buddy was there last week and saw 5 deer grazing the plants that were only 2 inches high. So much for that!

I am hoping they stay off the sunflowers and Provo so they get big enough to produce a nice stand. I have another 2 acres to plant this weekend - then I am done until September!

I frost seeded some chicory and clover earlier this year. It is actually growing in quite well. I need to reposition my trail cam to see if the deer are browsing in it yet.

Plant Lab lab with your ic peas. Lab lab is a superior plant that will grow faster and withstand grazing better

Whats everyone going to plant this year. Was reading up on sunn hemp and i like what i'm reading its a good soil builder and gives the deer some type of bedding. Think I'm gonna plant some soy beans with it and see what happens.. Will be about an acre. Next to it i have about a 3 acre spot i haven't figured out what i want to do. Thinking about some switchgrass for a sanctuary and hunt around it.

They are clear cutting my woods this summer. Looks like crappy deer hunting for me for a few years. And all the turkeys I have been working so hard on keeping around will be gone. Guess I'm going to have to light em up this coming spring.