Published: June 2, 2017, 1 p.m.
Mike explains the ups and downs of planting a food plot for the first time
Segment 1, Getting the seed
- Don' t loan you tools out!
- Going to get the seed
- Heading north to camp to plant
- Getting stopped by the cops
Segment 2, Getting ready to plant
- Rise and shine
- Heading to the field
- Spreading the GroGanix and figuring out the speed and spread rates
- Disking the field
- Dealing with wet spots
\xa0Segment 3, Running the cultipacker
- Cultipacking the field
- Planting Boarder Patrol for a screen around the field
- Forgot two bags of Boarder Patrol
- Using the cultipacker rows as a guide to broadcast seed
- Earthway 2750 hand broadcast seeder
- Spreading the Climatize
- Running the cultipacker again to set the seed
Segment 4, Finding the missing seed
- Driving 60 miles to find more seed
- After calling store, they didn't have enough seed after telling me they did
- Got a bag of Boarder Patrol
- Almost ran out of gas
- Planted the last bag of seed in the dark
- A little rain over night to set the seed
- Got supplies to put up a growth cage
- Set a trail camera on the cage to monitor it
- Whether or not to fence off part of the field
- Plan for the rest of the year
- Checked all the trail cam cards
- Laptop battery was dead, so had to make two trips to check cards
Danny getting the PSE Evolve set up for hunting season