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It works well, the swamp is behind the tower you see at the end of it. I have another plot that connects to the long one where I typically bow hunt out of. I can see the long strip and deer come out of the swamp eary to eat all the time. The plot that connects is clover, chicory, rye, and a few brassicas. The pics of this plot connect to the long one. You can see the pic above, a trail directly to the left of my stand is the start of the long brassica strip.
How are the deer populations now? I sold my land over 10 years ago up there.
I would frost seed a medium red clover at about 8-10lbs/ac this spring. For your July "brassica" planting, I would use the LC brassica mix at the full rate that Paul recommended. Not being sure what "brassicas" you are using, that would be; 3# purple top turnips, 2# dwarf Essex rape, and 5# groundhog forage radish per acre. Depending on how your spring clover is doing and if you want to put down some extra clover, I would look into getting some alsike clover(it will handle your wet spring ground better than the other types) and putting that down at about 5#/ac. For the rye, you shouldn't have to go too heavy, use 1 bag(56#) per acre. As I said, you can put that down along with everything else like Ogema is doing, or wait a while to see how the plot is looking before you broadcast the rye.
It sounds like you are pretty close with what your doing anyway BJE, the only thing you aren't doing is putting all the seed down together. If the ladino/alsike did well there, I would continue to use that mix as well, just to add to the diversity to prevent failure of one of the clover types. And as Ogema stated, as far north as your land is, getting that rye in early will only benefit you as the season goes on.
