Clover and chicory????

[HC Sniper]

Anybody tried to plant some clover or chicory in their food plots?

Alot of you are saying to plant iron and clay peas, but I heard that the deer will clean them up in just a few days at maturity?

Wanta be farmer just needs help please!!!

[holepuncher]

I planted Clover season before last in my back pasture, the deer ate it up.

[bboswell]

Yep

Clover, Chicory, and Rape. We put all 3 in our fall plots along with rye and peas.

Not sure what we will plant for spring.

[horseshoo]

spring summer plot iron clay peas are very inexspensive grow well if deer give them chance soil i planted in was sandy loam and with a little fertilizer and rain they did good. put a wire barrier around a portion of what ever it is that you plant .

[glen]

I have oats and clover in now and the deer dont let them get mature at all. Next year I will plant chicory= it is bitter until it get mature.

[HC Sniper]

Am I mistaken. I was told that you could plant chicory and clover in the spring in a mix with other seeds. Is this true or not?

[glen]

That is right- I am just going to lean more on chicory next year because the deer dont pull the young plants out of the ground when eating/ deer dont start eating on chicory until it is mature and then just eat the leaves and leave the stalk.

[HC Sniper]

Would chicory mixed with cow peas or iron and clay peas be a good mix. What about chicory mixed with clover?

[Sippy]

That is right- I am just going to lean more on chicory next year because the deer dont pull the young plants out of the ground when eating/ deer dont start eating on chicory until it is mature and then just eat the leaves and leave the stalk.

thats what we planted and the second it came up they ate ALL of it

[rod165]

food plot

I live in a mid-western state, we plant clover blends but here you need a plot of an acre or more or the deer will keep it ate to the ground. we have so much corn and soybeans around here and the deer are always in the soybeans when they are green. If you dont have soybeans in your area try them also, great for the deer. I mix chicory with the clover at 1 1.5 lb an acre. Also plant rape, turnip and chicory mix. up here no one food plot is the best to plant but a mix of several plots such as clover alfalfa mix in one, clover chicory in another and then a plot of rape, turnip and chicory or sugar beet. because deer will be in one early in the season then move to another later in the year and another over the winter after season in over.

[Ferg]

The deer here in East Texas must not have gotten the memo on chickory, they ate it while it was young and did pull it out of the ground, I was in a stand watching. They do like the chickory, next Sept. I will plant both chickory and clover along with my oates.