Plits that can handke standing water?

[jesse.james]

Are there any food plots that can handle standing water for a day or two at a time? My lease is on low land. Dense woods accept for a few openings that get minimum required sun light. The problem is that on a hard rain these places will get standing water for a day or two. Are there any type of plus that can manage to grow with these conditions?

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Edited October 8, 2013 by jesse.james

[Berniez]

If there is some sun many types of clover can stand being drowned for a week or 2

If there is no sun....I have no idea.

[SplitG2]

alsike clover withstands wet areas.

[landtracdeerhunter]

I'll second the motion on Alsike clover. Reds will do well in poorly drained clay loam soil provided enough light condtions exsist. The only gripe I have against Alsike is it becomes bitter and less  palatable when mature. Also regrowth is very limited. We grown clovers on poor drained clay soil, flood plains for 50 years.

[Berniez]

Strawberry Clover Palestine (Trifolium Fragiferum) - Strawberry clover is a perennial clover similar to white dutch clover in growth habit. Spreads by above ground stolons, similar to strawberries. Adapted to wet saline and alkaline soils and can tolerate a wide range of soils. Will tolerate flooding. It is principally a pasture plant that is somewhat drought resistant. Strawberry clover develops a good sod, and is very palatable.

[cbx46]

I googled this same topic and found some mixtures I am trying next year. I posted them in the topic I just made called next years food plots. I researched all on the seeds and they all say for wet soil. I will typically will not have standing water as long as every time I visit my property I reverse the work of the resident beaver but it is damp. Lol what I am thinking of doing is a .22 mag between his eyes though.

[Berniez]

Get a trapper and do it legal.  I get a permit ( Local DEC supplies it)to shoot them from sunrise to 11pm because they are trying to turn my cornfield into a 5 acre wet spot and flooding roads on my property,  If they flood your oak trees in the fall take up duck hunting and the deer still hang out there.  I shoot 2 or 3 a year while the trapper gets 18-20.  That's every year for the last 25 years.  Learn to live with them..... you'll loss less hair,sleep and still have deer.

[cbx46]

I will look into the permit bc my brother saw one last year and didn't shoot it bc we weren't sure.  Thank you.

[Berniez]

  All shoot to kill beaver permits in CNY expire October 31 of every year.(Trapping season opens and why waste a pelt?)  So if you want something done this year find a trapper. (Call your local DEC office for help or ask at a local sporting goods store for the Phone number of one). BTW  Every year we get at least one weighing over 60 lbs (the size of a kindergarten kid wearing a fur coat) You can;t stop 'em so do what you can and maybe change your thoughts about what you are going to do there.  I gave upon one spot of the farm and got federal funding to make one spot a 10 acre wetland. Five years later with some creative landscaping with brush the  deer are still there (bedding on the high spots) and I have great duck hunting (This year if went from good to as good as it gets anywhere).  For you?????  A  partially flooded woodlot will draw both ducks and deer. - good luck