Biologic Green Patch Plus

[Grizz1219]

Going to do my first ever food plots this year... Already sprayed and removed the weeds.... Limed and fertilized this past weekend and now I am going to till and plant Green Patch plus... Anyone plant it in NY before??? How was it for deer?? Did it work later into the season??? I'll post pics later... But hoping my first effort works....

[phade]

It was the very first plot I ever planted and it's a good value for the seed. It was the best buck on a bag option for late season plantings before brassicas really became a favorite to plot. I do believe the mix has changed slightly.

 

I'd have that stuff in the ground asap, however. Time is a bit short on that respect.

[Grizz1219]

Farmer was nice enough to plant two bags of seed corn for me that I bought..

[Grizz1219]

[Grizz1219]

Then we picked areas that were unused...

 

[Grizz1219]

After spraying, we hacked them down and then weed whacked to get it to bare ground...

 

 

My wife on the left.... Another hunting partner on the right... Yup.. 2 women.. They work as hard as I do... ;-).. The guys I hunt with decided not to do this...

 

 

Got it down close as we could...

 

[Grizz1219]

Then, after doing soil testing, added lime and fertilizer to the plots...

 

 

Set up a ground blind and a ladder stand and this weekend we will till and plant the Green Patch Plus....

 

[Fantail]

Holy overgrowth. Product sounds good, and it looks like the plot will get good light.

 

Since I don't have any plots exposed like that I am hesitant to use seed that seems like it is designed for warmer climate.

[Grizz1219]

Yeah... we picked areas that the farmer has no use for... Trying to give the deer something that will draw them to after the crops are cut.. so we will see...

[G-Man]

not used by farmer, but be careful that field may be fawning cover/escape cover. plots look fairly small. more to plotting than just clearing and planting old field... just a word of advice for future.

[G-Man]

buy the way good work , i'm sure it took lot of effort to do that craering and you should feel sence of pride in doing it.

[SplitG2]

now that is work!  Good luck planting it.  Getting late planting brassica but you never know.  keep us posted.

[Grizz1219]

Thanks... Yeah.. it was a lot more work than originally thought... But glad we did it... Hoping it will grow well... All of Sept. before we get anything remotely cold I'm thinking then figure 1/2 way through before the first real frost... Fingers crossed... Next year I'll be planting earlier in August...

[NYSuperSportsman]

good job! I bet it will draw deer even by just promoting new young growth in the weeds and other plants. And I am sure that the seed will germinate and give some forage.  I don't know that the heck G-man was talking about.... Lime, fertilizer, soil testing, sure sounds to me like you did everything you could with what you had!! Its a learning experience as is anything else and I am sure you will be hooked! Good luck this season! 

[G-Man]

What I am talking about, is if you food plot, you want to place your plots strategically. Many fallow fields are bedding areas.(think crp fields) your better off with a bedding area than a feed area. Just because a field is not used by a farmer doesn't mean its not being used by game in another way. I started food plotting back in 93 and made the mistake of clearing a fallow field. That was prime bedding late season (south facing slope surrounded by woods) the deer came to the plot but started bedding on my neighbors who intercepted them on way to my plot all iI am saying is before you start dropping/making plots everywhere know what you may be removing that maybe more vvalue able to your place.

[NYSuperSportsman]

Good points and an interesting story! It looks like Grizz's plot still has alot of that bedding type cover around it. You are right tho there is usually more than meets the eye......

[gjs4]

Aren't you hunting too close to this plot not to tip the deer off with your presence/entry/exit? Would back off your locations a bit and hit them on travel in....a mature buck or doe will almost always wind check a plot before entry

 

used the mix when it first came out- deer ate it...remember the brassica in there smelled awful

[Grizz1219]

The farmers tractor road comes up right behind the blind... If you look, you can see the 3 acre corn field behind the blind he put in for me... As for easy in and out access, thos two spots are VERY quiet to get in and out of... As for blowing deer out, my thinking is, they won't spend hours there, they might use it for staging before going out to the fields at dark... At least I hope they do... LOL  As stated, this is a first attempt so I'm hoping to learn a lot...  

[Grizz1219]

It will be a week tomorrow since planting... I'll be checking on them... I'll post pics of hopefully green food plots if it comes up quick...