Low Maintenance Fall Food Plots

rye grass, only offers min nutrition, but it is throw and grow, deer eat it, cheap, and deer will come to it especially if there is a lack of options. take your 4 wheeler and run around in circles, broadcast the seed, fertilize it with a little 13-13-13 and hope for rain

50# Rye grass
50# triple 13

2-3 days before a rain I’d spray the area I’d want to seed then just toss “brown bag/generic” winter wheat, oats and a cereal rye right before the rain. The dead vegetation will eventually wilt and lay over on seeds. This method will hold moisture a bit longer than filling anyway.

I’d throw double the amount of seed you’d normally out due to birds/turkey getting hold of some seed before germination.

I wouldn't plant. I would go find areas you want to hunt and fertilize the browse. During the winter I hinge-cut, remove smaller vegetation under white oaks and fertilize them. Late in the year and I fertilize browse that deer tend to feed on.

Look into a rental tractor with disc or an atv drag harrow to loosen the topsoil. Or as a poster has said, use a rake. Plant 10# inoculated crimson clover, 10# arrowleaf white clover, 50# forage oats. 100# 13-13-13

Crimson clover is a winter forage, and white clover is a spring summer forage.

Later in spring mow the plots after the clovers have gone to seed. Do it again again in August when the Oats have gone to seed as well as the white clover. Never cut them as low as your lawn though. You should ger 2-3 years worth of food plots from these perennial plantings.

If you dont plan on bow hunting in early October wait till mid October to plant

I’ve had good luck with ryegrass,they eat it when it is young and tender.Only problem with planting in September is army worms will often get it.It’s relativity cheap so it’s worth a try.