The Correct Fertilizer For A Clover Food Plot
/The Correct Fertilizer For A Clover Food Plot
Fertilizer is often one of the most overlooked parts of food plotting and with very little work is one of the only things that you can get perfect. Often a hunter spends days, weeks, and in some cases years looking for the perfect food plot seed to put into the ground. While in most cases the type of crop is not that big of a deal because the deer will eat any of the plants that the hunting could plant. Clover is one of the most selected type of food plot seed bought and for good reason.
Deer Love Clover!
The good and the bad thing about clover is that it is a legume. Most hunters that plant clover don't even know what that is. Clovers are not the only foot plot plants that are legumes but they most popular by far. Legumes are special in the fact that they don't need nitrogen in the fertilizer to thrive.
The good thing is...
Legumes have the ability to take nitrogen from the air. They also put nitrogen into the soil for future crops. That is the good thing about clover. Nitrogen it the most expensive part of fertilizer.
The bad part is...
Most hunters don't know that they don't need nitrogen and often buy expensive fertilizer to feed there clover food plots. The problem is all they are doing is feeding all the other plants that compete with the clover in the food plot. This is like shooting yourself in both feet.
The right foot!
Paying a high price for nitrogen that you don't need. OUCH, you need a cane!
The left foot...
The expensive fertilizer is actuality helping the plants that you don't want in your clover food plot. Now you need a wheelchair!
In the video below I show you one of the clover food plots that I put in, the soil test results from that food plot, how to match the right fertilizer required for the clover to thrive, and where to buy your fertilizer for your clover food plots.
Go Get Em,
Jacob Schmitt
Jacob Schmitt started hunting when he was about 4 years of age and he has grow to love bow hunting whitetail deer in his home state of Arkansas. He loves sharing what he has learned over the years to help others become better deer hunters. He feels that it is his duty to give back what he has gained from years of trail and error to those that were not lucky enough to have grown up in a hunting family.
