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    Default Moist soil food plot

    First off Ive NEVER planted food for deer. I had the fortune of growing up on a dairy farm and hunting large corn, alfalfa, and soybean fields. My new place is all hay and will be slowly converted to deer food, what I dont pasture.

    Ive had no time for that this year but I just plowed and disked up a small pocket in a low spot in the woods next to a watering hole. Soil is very damp and black all summer but it never hold water. I wont soil test until this winter. Any suggestions as to whats best to spread and rake in?

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    Durana clover and cereal rye

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    Quote Originally Posted by camotoon60 View Post
    Durana clover and cereal rye
    And some lime

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    Winter rye, clover and winter peas
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    Get ready for 300 unduplicated answers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SaltMuck View Post
    Get ready for 300 unduplicated answers.
    Thats fine. Im looking more for what NOT to plant. Mind you this is a tiny piece, maybe 1/2 acre. Think "kill plot".

    Hay fields will get lime this winter so I will soil test before that.

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    I like Austrian winter peas in small food plots
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    Are you confident for AWP in heavy soils?
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    Moist

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    Durano clover grows good and in moist (not wet) soil. It produces a lot of forage and last for several years if maintained.

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    A mix of clover and any cereal grain. Since you’re only doing 1/2ac I doubt you’re breaking out the drill. Disc the ground (without sinking the tractor) and broadcast oats, Drag smooth, broadcast the clover, drag again. 4 bags of 10-10-10 and 4 bags of soluCal (again, I doubt you’re pulling a soil sample for 1/2ac). Pray for rain and throw an extra $20 in the offering plate on Sunday if you get it the day after planting.

    Come back in March-April to mow the plot and see how much clover you’ve got. If the voluntary grain and weeds are thick spray arrest on it. Mow a few times before rains and you’ll get a thick stand of clover.

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    I would also throw out some greens for late season. My low spots that hold moisture always have some pretty �� pulling in deer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Pride View Post
    Are you confident for AWP in heavy soils?
    I have never had a problem, and I am pretty sure my place ranks up there with some of the wettest of soils.

    If he is talking under water, I guess rice is the best bet. I've never had deer mess with my rice much though.
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    1/2 acre..

    I would do a bag of RTR from wannamakers and some clover.

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