Hoping for Rain

This past Saturday I once again pretended to be a dirt farmer! I went back up the the food plot area to disc plow the ground and layout some seed. 

I found some "sample" packs of seed online designed for whitetail deer food plots, they were free with shipping and handling. So for $9.95 I got 7 seed packs that each cover 100sq ft. Man did I do the math wrong! That makes 7 10'x10' plots quite a bit less than what we have to work with! But there is a seed & feed close by. $55.00 later I have a 50lb bag of deer plot mix and 1lb of field corn.

I took the tractor up the hill and turned towards my treestand and SHAZAM there was a deer hanging out under my stand!!! There's not even any seed down!

A couple hours of discing, leveling and seeding and the plot is ready??? Now we just need some rain. As much as its been raining lately you'd think that would be the easy part! Now I know how farmers feel! Not really my livelihood does not depend on this but i do have a better sense of how dependent they are on nature.

Hopefully soon we will have sprouts, but know folks are saying we need to keep the deer off so the crops can grow! Plant stuff to attract deer but do things to drive them away! What is this backward land?

Dirt Farming

Prepared a food plot

Well we spent most of Saturday grooming an area in preparation for a food plot. With the help of a good friend who owns some good land we were able to mow and plow an area close to our treestand(s). We still need to run the disc-plow through it and spread seed but we have a better idea of what we are working with. Hopefully we can get seed in the ground in the next few weeks (really busy with non-hunting items). We should also be able to create some funnels and paths by cutting the overgrowth again in the fall. Maybe on or two cuts before archery season starts. And we are going to try and create a ground blind so we can cover both sides of the food plot area. It is a lot of work now but hopefully it will yield a bigger harvest this fall.