Here is what our food plots looked like in Nov. We planted them in early Aug & didn't have any rain til mid-sep, still some of the seeds germinated and those plants grew really tall & big. The other stuff filled in nice when they finally got rain in mid-sep. There are 2 seed mixes in the plots. One mix was winter rye, white clover mix & winter peas (didn't grow at all) & the other mix was PT turnip & groundhog radish mix. In one plot we did just a big square with a small tail this plot was 2/3 rye mix and 1/3 brassica, the other was a small square and then a bunch of lanes that were about 100 yards long creating trails. This worked out well and we watched a buck one night go & check all the lanes to see if there were any deer in them, whereas the square plot when we saw deer to it they would walk up the edge and leave because they could see the whole thing. From now on when at all possible we will break up the plots so the deer have to move more, making killing them easier!! The deer have really eaten the winter rye down on that part and the clover is coming in strong but is really small yet, they will be hammering that in the spring/summer as it grows bigger.
View of square food plot, the right part is brassica's & left is the rye mix which they have hammered, it looks like it was mowed.
View from the stand of food plot with lanes, rt side is winter rye mix, left side it radish/turnip mix.
Big buck coming down one of the lanes checking for does
View down one of the lanes
Ground hog radish
Purple top turnip
