Posts Tagged ‘whitetail institute

  Todays food plot tip of the day is focused on the food plot gem of the north – brassicas. These tasty broad leafed wonders are food plot gold come late fall, and can be in many cases an ideal hunting plot choice. But before I get too deeply into my own thoughts on Brassicas, [...]

With spring food plot season pretty much upon us, I thought I’d start featuring a series of short and to the point “food plot tip” articles on the blog. I intend to pull most of these tips from various books, magazines and resources featuring expert strategies and opinions of food plotting and then add my [...]

With March already upon us, believe it or not, it’s time to start thinking about food plots! I’ve had some great experiences the last couple years planting plots on my various properties – but it’s safe to say that I made plenty of mistakes along the way. An article I recently ran across by Brad [...]

It started out as an idea in my head and a brushy patch of ground, then eventually with time, sweat and muscle it transformed. From a barren patch of earth sprung new life and great possibility. The possibility of a beautiful food plot is now coming to life to as my hard work this summer [...]

Rain, rain come this way….My plot is planted and now we’re just hoping that the rain will do it’s job. Luckily, our timing was good and we got everything planted the night before the rain showers came in and now today they are doing just that. We’ve got a good bit of rain that’s rolling [...]

With just a few days left in August, I’m hard at it trying to finish up my last minute work on a few fall hunting plots. I sprayed my plots last week, I’ll be discing them in the next couple days and then planting them soon after. Now while we are getting pretty close to [...]

Today I’m really excited to share with you, the Wired To Hunt Nation, some great news about our new partners for 2011. Five of the best companies in the hunting industry have stepped up to support Wired To Hunt and help us grow, on our way to becoming the best deer hunting blog on the [...]

Last Minute Food Plot

30, Aug 2010

As much as I like to think I’ve got it all together, today was a not so subtle reminder that I’ve still got a nasty knack for procrastinating. I’ve gotten behind on a lot of neccessary preparations on my properties and particularly on a food plot I wanted to put in. I finally thought I had [...]

There are two general reasons we plant food plots for deer: supplementing natural nutritional shortfalls, and attracting and holding deer on our properties during hunting season.  Planting annual food plots can be a big part of achieving both goals. Forages planted for deer are of two general types: perennials and annuals.  Perennials are forages designed [...]


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