re: Fertilizer Prices & Food Plots

How do the seeds that nature drops come up and thrive so well in the wild? No fertilizer is applied to any of it.

Scientists proved a few years back that if you plant at least 7 different varieties of seeds together, that the plants will take the needed fertilizer (like nitrogen) out of the air. The plants will cross feed each other the minerals the other plants need through diversity.

My place is new and most of the plots I created this year after purchasing. I broadcast seed into the old plots then mashed/crimped the grasses down on top of the seed. The seed is germinating and coming up through the old grasses.

The new plots: I used the old cutover piles of rotten logs and pine bark mulch to spread out over 1/2 to 1 acre areas. I then used the soil conditioner on my skid steer to blend into the Sandy clay soil. I didn’t use any fertilizer and the seeds exploded the first week. The deer are absolutely tearing the plots up. Now, I desperately need rain.

Guys, go listen to some habitat podcast. Land and Legacy is a good one as is the MSU deer lab.

The guy with Drop tine seed talks a ton about soil regeneration.

Save money and time and produce healthy soil and plots.