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    Default Late Summer Food Plot

    I've gotten a late start on getting ready for deer season. Busy summer and some uncertainty on our lease have me running behind. What would you plant in the lowcountry today?

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    Nothing. The deer have plenty to eat right now. Wait a few more months and plant some turnips, winter peas, etc.

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    Soybeans

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    Just put some iron clay peas and oats in the ground with a little clover mixed in
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    I think people who plant summer plots are just looking for something to do.

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    Heavy dose of round-up, then top sew aeschynomene + alyce right before a rain. Deer might not need it now but during SC rut (late Sept.-November) the deer will come. Benefits for winter food plots is keeping the weeds down in the spring...rye. Average killing frost for most of SC is early November, so Broadcast 150 lbs of cereal rye per acre the end of October. Don't till. Summer stuff dies with frost, rye will be coming through.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    I think people who plant summer plots are just looking for something to do.
    I cab find plenty to do, but I must say we see quite a boost from it.
    Yup, he's crazy...


    like a fox. The dude may be coming in a little too hard and crazy but 90% of everything he says is correct.

    Sort of like Toof. But way smarter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silentweapon338 View Post
    I cab find plenty to do, but I must say we see quite a boost from it.
    A boost in what, deer size, antler size, amount of deer?

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    I plant soybeans and clay peas for the summer and go back and plant wheat, oats and clover in late September or early October.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whitty View Post
    A boost in what, deer size, antler size, amount of deer?
    Antler mass. Deer weights usually benefit as a result. We have had several sets of triplets as I understand it that is a direct reflection of good nutrition. However we end up removing a bunch of those that do not have antlers!
    Yup, he's crazy...


    like a fox. The dude may be coming in a little too hard and crazy but 90% of everything he says is correct.

    Sort of like Toof. But way smarter.
    ~Scatter Shot

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    According to QDMA, late summer is a hard time for deer because most of what you think is good browse is too tough and mature for good eating. I can say that some Sunn Hemp I planted two weeks ago is getting hammered right now. It'll last until hard frost.

    I plow up some of the summer plots and plant a rye, brassicas and clover blend around early August to September. Later on, I'll plant that same blend in parts of my leased fields once the cotton and corn have been harvested. Those later fields never catch up to the ones planted in late summer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    I think people who plant summer plots are just looking for something to do.
    hush
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    According to QDMA, late summer is a hard time for deer because most of what you think is good browse is too tough and mature for good eating.
    This is why we mow all of our power line right of ways twice a summer
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