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Food plot
Eric Krewson:
You can use salt in Alabama but I wouldn't put in the middle of your plot because the salt will leach into the soil and nothing will ever grow there again.
You could put a feeder up in the middle of the plot if you wanted to as they are legal in Alabama starting this year. You do have to buy a special permit to put out a feeder.
TrevorM:
Looks like there are a couple of those NRCS's not too far from me I'll have to go check them out.
It was a nutrient block so it might be OK for the soil, but I'll move it just to be sure.
Hawkdancer:
Might want place that block somewhat near a water source, if you have one, or near a trail leading to water.
Hawkdancer
TrevorM:
There's a creek at one end that I haven't actually found yet. I'll see if I can find it and put it near there.
Eric Krewson:
We talked back and forth about food plots, I started a small one on very poor ground in the woods several years ago. It gets some sunlight but only about 50% coverage at any given time.
I put up an electric fence to keep the deer out until the wheat, oats and rye got established, I took the fence down today, the deer will be in the plot tonight. The combined green stuff is about a foot tall at this point, the deer will mow it down quickly. I put about 2 tons of barn yard fertilizer on the plot last year in the fall. This didn't make a difference last year because the stuff was very green, right out of the cows, after it broke down in the soil it made a huge difference this year. This is a small plot of about 25 yards square.
The view is from a ladder stand about 25 yards off the plot, I set everything up for a flintlock shot.
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