As the landscape changes sometimes you find great new places for food plots. A properly made plot in the right location will provide abundant nutrition for the deer AND provide a great place to hunt. We just cleared a new plot inside a stand of timber that previously could only be hunted by locating stands on roads. Once we are finished we will have a nice plot where deer that were bedded nearby can stop on their way out of heavy cover to their primary feeding areas. A plot like this will give you an opportunity to catch a good buck moving while good shooting light is still available.
Even though we don't plant the food plots on the C4 until early fall, we like to clear new plots in early spring if ground conditions permit. This allows us to prepare the ground, kill the weeds, take soil samples, lime, and fertilize throughout the summer so that the new plot is primed and ready for planting come September. It has been our experience that it takes a couple of years here in East Texas to get the deer to utilize a new plot so that gives us plenty of time to get it well established.
This particular plot will have several trees inside the plot so it will look a bit different that your typical plot. The disadvantages to this is that it makes it more difficult to work the ground and plant it because the trees get in the way but the advantages of having several trees available for tree stands far outweigh the disadvantages. The deer really seem to like the trees in the plot as well.
As you can tell by the picture below, it is still in very rough condition. as we make progress turning it into a finished plot I will post more pictures.
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