These two factors in combination leave you with not a lot of options.
Building food plots in the woods.
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Make a hole before you drop any seed you will need one basic ingredient to establish a successful food plot back in deep woods.
If you want to use the entire field as a food source plant corn or sorghum.
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.
Shoot for 50 sunlight but 30 will work with the right seed mix.
If the ground cover is heavy in the clearing you can spray it with a glyphosate type weed.
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.
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.
He takes us through the process of establishing new fall food plots in big timber from.
Food plots in the woods will often get very limited sunlight.
If you don t want that area as an additional food source egyptian wheat is the best plot screen buffer in my opinion.
A food plot or several within big woods will give the deer a variety of foods and can be the perfect antidote to a bad acor n crop.
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.
The clear choice for many is white clover.
A small clearing in the woods can be turned into a food plot with about a day s worth of manual labor.