Easy food plots for deer

Easy food plots for deer

Easy food plots for deer require a solid plan.  If you came here looking for easy food plots for deer, we can lay that out.  The easiest food plot for deer is a late summer planted seed blend made for your area.  Most of the seed bed has germinated by late summer so we have less weed competition.  In Minnesota this is a late August planting, and if you are further south like Missouri, you may be planting as late as the 3rd week in September.  This schedule gives you all spring and summer to get a complete vegetative kill, and a chance to work the seed bed twice for optimal plant growth.

Easy food plots for deer start in the spring

We start when the ground thaws by grabbing a soil sample to test our ph and fertilizer requirements.   Take it to the ag office and for $12 they will let you know how much lime and fertilizer you will need to grow your selected seed blend.  When the deciduous leaves are dime size, we will spray the weeds in our plot with RoundUp, spread the required lime to adjust our PH, and then we can work the soil 10 days later the first time.   We will spray again when the seed bed regerminates in June, and our seed bed should be prepped and ready to plant.

Timing is everything when planting easy food plots for deer

Patience is paramount now, and we will wait until our late August to late September date we picked rolls around, and we will try to time our planting to coincide with a nice late summer rain.  The timing is critical, and you will be inclined to get the seed in early so you have more growth on the plants come hunting season.  Don’t do it.  The only reason to rush the date is to time planting with an adequate 2 or 3 day rain that will give your new easy food plots for deer the start they need to grow.  Most of the seed blends we will put down now will be spread after we lightly rework the soil with a drag, and then we run the drag one more time for good seed to sol contact to get our food plots for deer the start they need to be successful.

After the seed is down we will add the recommended fertilizer and pray for rain.  You will have the greenest bounty in town late fall, and the deer will readily come to the only green growing food source on your entire property.  Easy food plots for deer only happen with a solid plan that is executed to the T.  Skip a step and the plot will fail.

Easy food plots for deer may not sound so easy any more

We can see that even ‘easy’ food plots for deer require planning, prep and work, but if you do not do them right, they simply will not draw in deer.  No till and throw and grow are BS in the world of food plots for deer.  Do your homework and execute the proper plan and you can enjoy success adding easy food plots for deer into your whitetail hunting strategies.  No till food plots for deer are not an option for most of us, but these easy food plots for deer should be part of every land managers plan.