gamebird plot

[Linda G.]

Husband and I had part of our small woodland lot (about an acre) cleared this spring for a parking pad for our junk-boat trailer, storage for empty turkey feeders, old truck, eventually a small barn...and saved a portion of it, on the utility power line, for a gamebird food plot.

I don't know anything about food plots, so I just tilled up the ground, which is mostly clay, very poor soil, I think, dropped some composted manure over it, tilled that in, and planted a conservation mix of rye, millet, and sorghum, over which I threw a couple of handfuls of sunflower and oat seed...it cost me about $30 for everything, and most of that was for the manure. I didn't spray herbicides like glyphosphate or any of that junk on it, I worry about what that does to the little critters, like toads.

Planted it in mid-May. Have had some concerns about a lack of water up here, but it's done very well...the sorghum is heading, the millet has large seed heads on it, the sunflowers are blooming, and the oats are almost ripe. It looks great, and the hen turkeys and little ones are already in it. As it ripens I'm going to find a game camera (might buy one, long overdue) and put it out there...

I wish everyone could do something like this, every little bit helps, especially up north...

[steveh27]

Nice Job Linda, kep up the good deeds. My place doesn't hold much wildlife. lol.