dohcrxl

WI's season isn't over yet til 1/3 but with all the different gun, muzzle loader, youth hunts, and other special hunts going on since the rut, it pretty much is over. As such, I'm thinking about next year already... thus the newbie question:

I picked up a 2 1/2 lb bag of "Mossy Oak Bio-Logic" seed mix that I plan to use for a food plot come August. This mix has about 10 different seed types with 45% being wheat and 25% being various clover.

1) Is this an ideal mix or should I target one specific type of seed and stick with that?

2) How should I plant if the area I want to hunt is grassy? Not tall grass, more like the stuff on the lawn. Should I till the soil and uproot the existing vegetation?

3) Will the mixture be good in 8 months? I know all things have an expiration dates but seeds should be good for years and years right?

IL Rancher

The seeds should be fine with one warning in that the inoculent on the clover (the stuff that enables it to fix nitrogen) does eventually weaken and "die". Can be a problem but if the ground already has some clover in it (Around here it is hard to find ground without a little white clover in it) you probably would already have the fungi that you need.

I have thought about putting a food plot in next year in our of our out of the way places. Problem is the ground is so bad there (sandy as a beach) that I would probably have to haul in so much fertilizer and soil ammendments that it wouldn't be worth it. Be better served slicing off some ground that is in crops and do a 1/2 acre or 3 acres into food plots. Might make the ground more huntable.

On a strange note, I was walking a part of our ground the other day and found a small bassicas food plot that someone put in. How long can these things stay going. I remember seeing the plants there 2 years ago (I think) but it didn't register with me that that is what I was seeing. It is a pretty poor stand but just curious.

Anthon