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Food Plot Milestones
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1998
Part I - Planning (early March)
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In
this segment, we look at the character of the land, the cost
involved with clearing and determining the proper size and location. |
1998
Part II - Crop Choices
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Our
soil test is back and the results are worse than expected. Our
decision changes now to what to plant and how much work there
will be to amend the soil. |
1998
Part III - Fertilizing/Planting
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Our
crop chosen, our soil tests back, and our plot is planned out.
With the arrival of warm weather, we break out the heavy equipment
and plant our plot. |
1998
Check up
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The
first check up of our plot and the results are terrific. Check
them out! |
1998
Maintaining/mowing
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It
took a while to get back down to the land so we were curious
to see how the plot was doing. We were not let down.... |
1998
Bowhunting Season
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We
hunted the food plot on opening week. Read a day by day account
of what we saw! |
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1999
Spring Checkup / New plot installed
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So
how did our food plot fare in its second year? Find out as we
check up on it and also plant a new plot. |
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1999
- Checkup /Dramatic Results
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We
went down to check out our Food plot on Memorial Day Weekend
and the Clover results were astonishing. The Buckwheat is not
doing well however. |
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1999
- Checkup and Maintenance
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Our
first trip to the plot since May and it was in tough shape.
The Buckwheat was pretty much dead while the clover remained
healthy yet overbrowsed and being choked by weeds. |
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1999
- Bowhunting Season
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The
October bowhunting season was a good one on the plot. |
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2000 Spring Planting
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After
the winter of 2000, our plot is in tough shape. We repair the
bare spots and install a new plot in our failed 1999 buckwheat
patch. |
| Summer
2000 - Checkup |
Our plot is a disaster.
The rains encouraged heavy weed growth which choked out our
plot. |
| Summer
2000 - Checkup 2 |
Our plot is rebounding
since our last, depressing, visit. |
| 2000
Bowhunting Season |
Hunting season was tough for a variety of
reasons but the plot fared better than we expected.
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| 2001
New plot installation |
We decided to rip it all up and start over
again with a new installation. See how we did that.
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| 2001
Spring Check Up |
What a mess. The grass and weeds came back
stronger than ever. Now we have some decisions to make.
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2001
Summer Check Up
"Undercover" |
The plot
was suffering from drought but deer sign was clear. We set up
a trail monitoring camera to capture the action over two days
on each end of the plot.
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| 2002 |
No Food Plot - we
sprayed roundup to kill all vegetation and started new in 2003.
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| 2003
Spring Planting |
We plant Imperial
No-Plow as a new trial plot.
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| 2003
Spring Checkup |
Good results - but
concerns about the amount of Rape turn out to be well founded.
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| 2003
Hunting |
Plot in great shape,
but deer ignore the Rape.
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| 2004
Planting |
We start new with
a new brand of seed and a new strategy.
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| 2004
Spring Checkup |
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| 2004
Fall Hunting |
Excellent Results,
Plot is a 9 out of 10
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| 2005 Planting |
Replanted using Monster Mix
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| 2005 Spring Checkup |
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| 2005 Hunting |
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| 2008 Checkup and Planting |
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