October Food Plot Update

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Garden Food Plot

After being mowed on September 10th the clover has jumped a little bit and doesn't look too bad. The grass that is in the plot has turned brown for the fall but the clover that is there is still nice and green. The plot doesn’t look as bad as I thought it might a month or so ago. It will be interesting to see how it reacts if I get some herbicide next spring.

All of the green is clover in among the dead grass.

Middle Food Plot

The Extreme has started to grow and doesn’t look too bad. Hurricane Ivan came through and dumped more rain. We have not had much rain since but the hurricane gave us about 5 inches.

The Plotsaver fell out of one of the posts when we had all of the rain and had sagged to the ground, so we put it back up and sprayed it again. There is not much difference in and out of the plotsaver yet, but it didn't look like the deer had bothered any of it much. I had a scouting camera on it and it showed that the turkeys were in the plot soon after it had been sown. Interestingly in the pictures, there were not any turkeys inside of the Plotsaver, maybe it kept them from eating the seed inside. I put an exclusion cage in the part of the plot outside of the Plotsaver so I can compare it with the Plotsaver. I’ll also be hunting close to this plot and will be able to watch the reaction the deer have to the Plotsaver.

The extreme is getting a decent start.

Oldhouse Food Plot

I mowed the plot with a brush hog on Oct 8th. There is still a lot of clover here for the deer this fall but the grass and weeds had come on strong with all of the rain and decent weather since. I had hoped that I wouldn’t need to mow it but I had the time and it looked real nice afterward. I'll probably use some herbicide here next spring also. I think that I can probably keep this plot going for a couple more years.

I can't tell if there is a difference inside of the Plotsaver here either but I put it back up after I mowed. I can watch the reaction of the deer here as well.

You can see here that the plot was starting to get pretty wild.

I didn’t get to look at the plot at Whippoorwill and the Old Corn Patch plot is mostly grass with a little clover mixed in. I have pretty much given up on them until next winter when I’ll begin doing some work to enlarge the old corn patch plot.

The Food Plot Journal may go dormant for a while since there may not be much to report until this winter when I start working on the old corn patch plot expansion. I may do another issue on the Plotsaver results this fall. I do not want to fill your e-mail inboxes with useless mail if I do not have anything constructive to say.

When the Food Plot Journals stop showing up for a while you can see how our deer season is going by checking the 2004 Deer Season Journal updates on the website.

Now that bow season is only one week away I have been going real strong looking at pictures from my scouting camera. I have a new digital scouting camera this year and have found out that a digital scouting camera is the only way to fly. I put the camera out for two nights using only a 30 second delay between pictures and have 60 pictures to look at. You just can’t beat this. I cleared the card and put it back out and will have more new pictures to look at on my next visit. I could have as many as 202 pictures to look over the next time I visit our property.

I have an EagleEye digital scouting camera and am convinced that it is the best on the market. To take a look at the EagleEye and its advantages take a look at the latest page link at the Whitetail Deer Management and Hunting.com link below.

A curious young buck caught by our new scouting camera.

Bow season opens here in West Virginia next Saturday. I’ll be at the soccer field on Saturday but will be hard at it on the next Friday evening if all goes well.

We have purchased a 3D deer target and have been having fun shooting at it. I think that it will help my son a lot. It will be easier for him to pick a spot on a deer after shooting at the 3D target. We both need to keep practicing to stay sharp.

“Wildlife is never destroyed except as the soil is destroyed; it is simply converted from one form to another. You cannot prevent soil from growing plants, nor can you prevent plants from feeding animals. The only question is: What kind of plants? What kind of animals? How many?” Aldo Leopold

You can purchase the EagleEye digital scouting camera through Whitetail Deer Management and Hunting.com. If you purchase the EagleEye before October 20, 2004 we will give you a $25.00 rebate. Just order your camera from Whitetail Deer Management and Hunting.com Digital Scouting Camera Page and then e-mail us and let us know that you came from The Food Plot Journal.