How to Create Deer Food Plots

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Choose an area with suitable soil but do not remove any small trees or plants.

   Also, do not disk or turn over the brush and weeds either.
   
   Only take a soil sample and bring it down to get it tested.
   
   This step is crucial and you'll be sorry if you skipped it!
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   Step 2: Kill the weeds by spraying them with Roundup or other herbicides in the spring when they reach 8" inches tall.

   In 4 weeks spray it all again and leave them there to fully die for the rest of the summer.
   
   At this point it is good to put on the recommended amounts of lime pellets from the results of the soil test. , Now is the time to take your steel come-along rake and lightly break-up the surface of your plot.
   
   Aren't you happy your food plot is small and manageable? , Make sure if your seed has a blend of different size seed, to open the hopper of your spreader far enough to only allow the smallest size seeds to go through when you first cover the whole plot.
   
   Next you can open it up to allow the next smallest size seed to go through, and keep doing this, until your recommended amount of seed is all gone. , Now think of the great time you'll have hunting 2 or 3 of your different plots!
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   Step 3: Around early to mid-August rake off the dead weeds and brush and apply the fertilizers recommended from your soil test results.

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   Step 4: On the same day in early to mid-August as you did the previous step

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   Step 5: apply your seeds with the hand-held seed spreader.

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   Step 6: Hang your tree stand

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   Step 7: create shooting lanes

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   Step 8: and make sure you do not set foot in your food plots until hunting season.

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