Here's the only pic I have of any of our plots; I would have made some more but I didn't realize there was a contest going on.



We planted on September 28 in the dust, using a mix of crimson clover, arrowleaf clover, and elbon rye. The land was prepared in the old fashioned way with a tractor, and the seed and fertilizer was lightly covered. As always, the seed just laid there until it rained and then it immediately came up and provided grazing within a few days of the rain. The plots all look great now and will provide deer and turkeys feed until spring. I've done it this way for decades. I guess it would be better to wait until just before a rain and plant then, but I have a life outside of deer hunting and would rather put the seed in the ground when we have a chance and let it be there when it finally does rain. I don't want to make the timing of planting deer plots priority one in my life.

If there is ever a year when it doesn't work, the deer will just have to get out and scrap for a living like everything else. I could have followed the advice in this thread and waited for it to rain, but then my grandson wouldn't have gotten his first deer.

Reality