Rit
5 year old buck +
Gents help me out here. Some of you have probably read the “let’s talk destination food plot” thread.
I have an area in that field that is about 60’ wide and 1100’ foot long. On one side of that area is a 30’ space for a road screen and the other side is switch. I haven’t decided what I was going to do with this area. Natural regen was my first thought but my seed bank has a lot of invasives.
Lately I have been reading Ernest seeds catalogue and noticed they sell many habitat seeds that are popular with deer. They have all the dogwoods, American plum, button bush, elderberry, and the list goes on and on.
As I was reading I thought why not prep the area like I would for switch and direct seed all these native shrubs. These bushes reproduce in nature all the time. What am I missing here? If I get good early weed control seems like this could work. You can purchase as little as 1 ounce per species of seed. An ounce of seed in some species would be 1000 seeds.
This certainly would beat the hell out of planting that same area. Has anyone tried something similar? Or am I just wishful thinking?
I have an area in that field that is about 60’ wide and 1100’ foot long. On one side of that area is a 30’ space for a road screen and the other side is switch. I haven’t decided what I was going to do with this area. Natural regen was my first thought but my seed bank has a lot of invasives.
Lately I have been reading Ernest seeds catalogue and noticed they sell many habitat seeds that are popular with deer. They have all the dogwoods, American plum, button bush, elderberry, and the list goes on and on.
As I was reading I thought why not prep the area like I would for switch and direct seed all these native shrubs. These bushes reproduce in nature all the time. What am I missing here? If I get good early weed control seems like this could work. You can purchase as little as 1 ounce per species of seed. An ounce of seed in some species would be 1000 seeds.
This certainly would beat the hell out of planting that same area. Has anyone tried something similar? Or am I just wishful thinking?