A cover crop for food plots is planted specifically to be turned back into the soil and make it for fertile. The quality of your soil directly affects how well certain plants can grow. Industrial farmers, home gardeners, and hunters planting food plots should work to improve the fertility of their s …

One important thing to understand when it comes to maximizing your land’s potential is that it’s done one step at a time. It’s almost impossible to do it all at once. Well, you can, but then you sacrifice the level of quality at which you’ve done it. Indeed, if you want to bring your hunting …

The one general improvement every hunter should focus on for their property is the increasing available edge habitat. Well that is, if you want to see more deer, turkeys and wildlife. This focus means setting diversity of available food, cover, and security as top priority. Now good edge habitat is …

In short, you should spray clover food plots with a grass herbicide like Clethodim 2E, if the grass competition is strong. You should mow it in late spring to control broadleaf weeds. If you want to have a nice clean clover food plot in the fall, you need to maintain it during the summer.F …

I have a food plot that is very acidic. Is there anything I could get to grow for a fall food plot as I try to adjust the Ph of the soil moving forward? Thanks for your thoughts and good luck in 2018. You have a few options. There’s a little more to this answer as well as I do want to …

BillWhen you make your poor man plots do you worry about the small stumps/roots from brush you’ve cut down?Ideally, you would kill the trees (or the stumps) when you cut them down so they don’t re-sprout. You can do this with Garlon 3A and not have any residual effect on the ground around the s …