Just wondering if anyone plants a shot plot around their stand?
Im hunting in a ravine and trying to get deer around my stand.
Im competing with neighbors that are running feeders.
I get some daytime pics in early season, but as soon as the ruts over I see nothing.
This time of year seeds on sale and I picked up a bag this weekend.
Just wondering if anyone else used this tactic?

About the end of August ive take a garden rake and raked the leaves around my stand about 40 yds in all directions  and planted winter wheat. This time of year when everything is brown that wheat patch  looked like golf coarse green. There was no need for fertilizer because the forest floor was full of dark rich soil from years of the natural composting of leaves and debris.
I never killing anything from it, but loved hunting over it. Deer where in it and kept it mowed down, but trail camera had them coming in at night.

Never tried that... I do fertilize Oak trees, the results are awesome. The deer will walk through an Oak Mott straight to my tree every time.

how do you fertilize oak trees?

Lee Lobbestael,,use fertilizer spikes by Jobe's. They really work!! I spike the oak trees on my family's land in late March but come October you will see clusters of acorns the size grapefruits!!

 

This is just one swipe of the ground on the oak ridge on my family's property. The diameter of the tree dictates how many spikes you need and don't plant them to close to the tree because they wont be effective. Find the drip line of the tree and start placing your spikes there. Good Luck.