Shoot for 50 sunlight but 30 will work with the right seed mix.
Building food plots in the woods.
Any holes in the overstory canopy are fair game for small food plots fitted with the size of the hole and the sunlight reaching the ground.
Habitat consultant tom james picked up a lease in big timber country.
Try and get as far away from a 4 wheeler trail or a food plot as you can take a backpack leaf blower and four to five pounds of some type of seed that germinates really quickly with you.
This creates a separation between the food plot and field edge and will help you create the shape food plot you want even in circular and square fields.
If you want to use the entire field as a food source plant corn or sorghum.
Make a hole before you drop any seed you will need one basic ingredient to establish a successful food plot back in deep woods.
He takes us through the process of establishing new fall food plots in big timber from.
To make a killer food plot for deer in the woods you only need three items a backpack leaf blower or a rake seeds and fertilizer.
If you don t want that area as an additional food source egyptian wheat is the best plot screen buffer in my opinion.
A small clearing in the woods can be turned into a food plot with about a day s worth of manual labor.
If the ground cover is heavy in the clearing you can spray it with a glyphosate type weed.
Food plots in the woods will often get very limited sunlight.
How to plant a food plot for deer in the woods planting a food plot in the woods can be difficult at times but if you take the proper steps you should be ok.
Plots in the hardwoods and mixed pine hardwoods.
The clear choice for many is white clover.