Trees and Bushes Bowhunters Can Plant to Increase
Their Success
The Best 1-Acre Bowhunting Plot and Honey Holes
Editor’s note: Many have written about the advantage
of planting food plots to manage wildlife. You can provide
quality nutrition for your wildlife when you plant crops,
but you’ll also have to invest time and money
managing those food plots. You may find planting permanent
food plots comprised of trees and shrubs instead of
just small grains a more-economical alternative. Here
are some tips for planting permanent food plots to attract
wildlife.
If your land, club or hunting lease only has a one-acre
green field, Allen Deese, a nursery manager for the
Wildlife Group of Tuskegee, suggests you plant these
trees and shrubs around that 1 acre to keep it a bowhunting
hot spot throughout the season.
*Allegheny Chinkapin (plant three or four)
*Chinese chestnuts (plant three or four)
*A strip of Japanese honeysuckle
*Sawtooth oaks (plant four or five)
*Kieffer pears (plant four or five)
*Callaway crab apples (plant four or five)
*Japanese persimmons (plant six or eight)
*Strawberry bushes (plant 10 to 15 in a strip along
one edge of the greenfield)
Honey Holes:
If your woods have open spots, and you want one or more
honey holes away from your green field to hunt and set-up
tree stands over during deer season, plant either strawberry
bushes or honeysuckle in tho se
little openings. Both of these plants grow in partial
shade and produce a large amount of deer-attracting
feed during bow season. To improve your hunting success,
plant the honeysuckl e
and strawberry bushes in an opening along the trail
the deer use to access your greenfield. If you plant
either honeysuckle or strawberry bushes in small openings
along access trails, deer often will stop to feed at
these honey holes and wait for darkness to fall before
they venture out into the greenfield. Consider planting
trees and shrubs that provide permanent food and hunting
sites for bowhunters and improve the property where
you can harvest deer throughout bow season. However,
check with your county agent before you purchase trees
and shrubs to make sure they will survive in the climate
where you’ll hunt, or study the U.S. Department
of Agriculture zone map.
For more information on permanent supplemental feeding
programs, visit www.WildlifeGroup.com,
email wildlifegroup@mindspring.com,
call 1-800-221-9703 or write the Wildlife Group at 2858
County Road 53, Tuskegee, Alabama 36083.
Check out this information:
http://www.nighthawkpublications.com/freetips/charts/deerfeed.htm
http://www.nighthawkpublications.com/freetips/charts/zonemap.htm
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