Mow winter food plots as they die or leave?

[TheGman]

Looking for opinions, I have a few wheat , oat , crimson clover food plots that are of course fading quickly.

it appears that deer are bedding in them now,

mow or leave ?

if leave , for how long?

 

[Tommyb]

Mow. Then a few weeks later spray with slay

 

[mfoster]

I would let them be if not planting summer crop. we plant abruzzi rye in some small plots to provide some fawning cover.

 

[Psilloh1]

Looking for opinions, I have a few wheat , oat , crimson clover food plots that are of course fading quickly.

it appears that deer are bedding in them now,

mow or leave ?

if leave , for how long?

We mow but have so much cover close by… Just finished planting about 5-6 acres in Millet and 2 in sunflowers for the fall dove shoot..

 

[Vincent Vega]

In for comments because I was wondering the same thing. This stuff is about 3 or 4 foot high.

 

[TheGman]

Mow. Then a few weeks later spray with slay

Do you plant for summer or just mow and kill?

I don’t plan to plant until September

 

[Psilloh1]

In for comments because I was wondering the same thing. This stuff is about 3 or 4 foot high.


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Do you usually keep it standing throughout the summer?. We have to bushog at least 3 times a year to keep it manageable or it takes forever to bushog and harrow… We do put a few summer plots in in Buck Beans..

 

[the_great_white]

We always just turned it under when we did our summer planting

 

[Vincent Vega]

Do you usually keep it standing throughout the summer?. We have to bushog at least 3 times a year to keep it manageable or it takes forever to bushog and harrow… We do put a few summer plots in in Buck Beans..

No. Not normally. I usually start mowing in April but haven't had a chance to for various reasons.

 

[TheGman]

I have specifically let clover go to seed and die before mowing it’s re-seeded at least once or twice