I planted sweet corn in my front yard. The dog should keep the deer and raccoons off that one- emphasize the word "should." I also planted sweet corn down at our pond. While my dad does frequent the area, I don't believe it's enough of a presence to keep it from being hammered by deer, but time will tell.
After all that I sped up the road and seeded some red and white clover. It crossed my mind to flank it with some blue grass or big blue stem so I could have an all American red, white, and blue food plot but I didn't follow through... maybe next year.
I used my john deere 60 tractor and 290 planter to get the sweet corn in. I grossly miscalculated how much I needed. I got $60 worth of sweet corn seed and when I finished I probably had $40 worth left over.
I used the 4 wheeler and cultipacker to seed the clover. I had already plowed and harrowed that plot a week earlier.
I first cultipacked it to get any air pockets out of the soil. I also drug a homemade rubber mat contraption to smooth out the soil as well. Here you can see on the right I have packed it and the left hasn't been done yet.
After firming up the ground I broadcast the clover seed and followed up with the cultipacker a second time to press the seed into the soil. Here is the finished product.
Ideally you want to plant them in late summer to early fall so competition with weeds is minimal while your clover stand establishes, but I don't have a choice this year as my wife is set to give birth to twins in about a month and my food plotting time will be nonexistent. That is another reason I love clover. A good stand will last about 3-4 years which buys me plenty of time to change diapers!
Well until next time God bless and get outside!
