Frost Seeding

Change-up on wildlife food plots – or as I like to call it:  Meatball Farming

Attempting an experiment.  Will report on success or not in three months or so.

Picked-up seed yesterday at the Door County Co-Op and mixed a couple pounds in a large Tupperware bowl.  Equal parts of red clover, turnip, chicory and dwarf rape.

Used the spinner to broadcast it on top of the snow covering a ratty bare patch of food plot that didn’t germinate last year.

The theory is that as the snow thaws, more snow falls and the freeze thaw cycle does its thing the seed is slowing worked into the ground by Ma Nature.  No till!  When the ground warms-up in the spring hopefully it will germinate and there will be a flush of new growth for the pollinators and critters when they need it the most.

I’ll have to see if it works.

The girls and I are going to do another patch tomorrow and overseed some of the trails with straight clover.

If the experiment fails I’ll nuke it with glyphosate.  When I have some extra hands at Schuetzenfest we can run the disc over it and replant it traditionally.

Also going to order 50 pounds of oil sunflower.  A giant sunflower patch would be like an acre of bird craziness.  Pheasants Forever has free shipping on their seed mix.