Hey guys, welcome back. Episode three of Food Plots 2017 and today is a till and seed bed preparation day and I'm out here working in my big food plot. If you've seen my other videos, you know that this is the one that I had clover planted in and I saved that side and didn't spray it with a glyphosate and right now I've got the thing worked up. We turn around here and you can see what I've done. So this side over here is a side that had the clover and now I've got it worked up pretty good right now. And like I said, I didn't spray that side to give you an idea. This side over here was sprayed with glyphosate. So you see how much better this worked up with my disc than the green clover plot. This was all cut by a neighbor. He harvested the clover for his hay bales and took those but right now I'm getting it worked up and next weekend I'm going to plant it. This side will go back into a brassicas this year and then this side here will get clover again this year and maybe a little bit of rye. And that's kind of the rotation I'm going to do every year flip flop them so that I get that clover put in the nitrogen back into the soil. Hey guys, it's day two and prepping food plots. I've worked on the soil and applying fertilizer today. So what I'm doing is since I'm planting brassicas in these food plots, you know it's a good fall food plot blend. Planting on planting purple top turnups, dwarf esac rape and four adradishes. And I'm going to put those in each of my food plots here. And what I'm doing right now is spreading fertilizer. And so I'm putting a fertilizer in at a rate of 200 pounds of triple 19 per acre, 150 pounds of urea per acre. And then I'm also putting 400 pounds an acre of pelletized lime on top. And so what I've done is I've worked my fields and now I've just put the fertilizer and lime down and now I'm just finishing working it in. And so what I do is I'll work this into the ground because I'm not planting and planting until probably about five days from now. So I don't want to let that fertilizer, especially the rye just sit on the ground because it will sublimate, basically go from solid to gas and it'll disappear if we don't get into the ground or if you don't get any rain on it. So that's what we're doing today, getting that worked in. And I've got that done now. So it looks like I got it pretty well taken care of. Don't see any fertilizer just sitting loose on the ground right now so I did a pretty good job. So here I am at one of my smallest plots and this thing's not even an eighth of an acre. I call it a microplot and what I'm going to plant in here, I'm thinking about planting brassica mix in here but you know as I look at what I've got going on here, this gets really shady over here. And I just don't think I've tried, I don't think it'll work and I've tried planting them here before with not a whole lot of success. This works probably best going into like a clover mix with probably put some rye in with it. I take a walk over here. I've got a surrounded by apple trees. So there's a nice big apple tree right here. There's a really big one right there. I have apple trees all over through my property and this year is a good year for apples. So I might put you know, I might try to see if I can get a few brass because they're growing this small area over here. It gets a little bit more sun over here and I might have a little better luck then back on the other side there where it's getting a lot more shade. So I'm going to go check out my last pot that I worked up today and that'll finish it out for today. Okay guys, I just finished working up my last pot and working the fertilizer and lime into it. So this one's going to be ready to plant now. This is probably my half acre pot just to give you reference if you've seen my other videos. My big tower behind there overlooks my big food plot and then this is basically on the other side of a creek that goes through here and that's where this one is. And a couple things to point out in this plot. I've got a nice big apple tree here, a couple more trees over there. Spin around. Another big one right here. The only problem is these apples are usually gone off the trees by the time the rut starts usually all these apples have already dropped so there's not much to hunt over really. So that's why I put the food plot in. I'll take a look over here. This food plot will be brassicas. That brassica blend I talked about earlier. I put the same amount of fertilizer and lime on this plot. So basically 400 pounds of lime per acre. 200 pounds of triple 19 per acre and 150 pounds of urea per acre. So now I've got this worked up, worked up good. I leave a couple of these trees in the plot just because I don't know it seems like the deer feel a little more comfortable with a tree or two in there but that could be all a bunch of BS but that's just what I was thinking. Let me know what you think about that in the comments. I know one thing, having them in the middle of the plot is a much fun train to work around them. I don't know if it's really worth it. But anyway, I leave them in there for now. So here's the rest of this plot. When it comes to hunting season, this is where the deer typically are. They like to stay back away from that big tower blind and they will hang out back here. And so it'd be nice if I get this is the harder area of this plot to grow food though. It's closer to the woods. It's needed a lot of lime over the years as you can see the ferns up there. The indication of acidic soil. So I've been working on this for probably seven years now and I think I'm getting it to the point now where it's getting pretty good but I've got to keep working on it. So hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you like it, click the like button. If you think others may enjoy it, go ahead and share it with other people. And look out for other videos I've got coming in the future. There'll be another one coming in a few days for planting and we'll get that one out. Probably sometime early August. So hopefully you'll get to see that and we'll see you in the next video. Thank you.