Food Plot Tips

I am here to give a few food plot tips that will help your food plot greatly.


Lime your plot.  If you do nothing else but seed and water your plot, lime it.  Now I know that the optimum pH for soil is 7.0, you might have already tested your plot and found that your plot soil is 7.0 pH.  If it is, skip this step.  If it isn't, listen.  You can do all the fertilization you want, but if your soil isn't 7.0 pH, then you've just wasted some of or almost all of the fertilizer.

Put a game camera next to the plot so you can see if deer are coming to it.

If you can't afford a game camera, this is a great tip I heard from an Antler King food plot video.  Some people said that their food plot plants weren't getting tall.  So Antler King came up with an idea.  If your food plot plants are short, surround one small area of the plants with fencing on the sides and top.  So you are pretty much making a cage.  After a while (a couple days or so), check your plot.  If the plants in the cage grew while the others outside the cage stayed short, that means that deer are coming into your plot and eating at the plants (the deer couldn't get to the plants in the cage).  If all the plants are short, even in the cage, then you might want to add some fertilizer or lime your plot.