Skip to main content
Stesso

Incorporate Seeds & Remove Obstacles

4:58
9:07
17.8K views

At 4:58 in

How to plant an inexpensive wildlife food plot on your property

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

After spreading the seeds, make another pass with the tractor and disc harrow to gently incorporate the seeds into the topsoil. This helps to cover the seeds, protecting them from birds and ensuring good seed-to-soil contact for germination. Following this, walk through the freshly tilled and seeded plot with several 5-gallon buckets to manually pick up any large rocks (larger than about half the size of your fist) that could potentially damage future mowing equipment. Transport the collected rocks away from the food plot, perhaps to a designated 'rock pile' or a creek bed.

Goal: Cover seeds and clear rocks for better growth and equipment safety

Tools and materials

  • 5-Gallon Buckets — Collecting rocks from the field
  • Disc Harrow — Lightly tilling to cover seeds
  • Tractor John Deere — Pulling the disc harrow for final seed incorporation
  • UTV/Gator John Deere — Transporting collected rocks off the field

What they say

Hide

forage so our next step here is going to take our Gator or four-wheeler would work or the tractor would work and I have a uh drag chain Harrow that I'm going to drag over this site to smooth it out that way it's not really really rough then we'll go back over pick out the sticks and rocks clean it up and it'll grow nice a lot of times people will ask me Josh what's the difference between good soil like this and a rock and I say well you can't grow grass on a d gum Rock so I have a technique of picking up rocks that has worked so far basically you get several five gallon buckets and you walk around and pick up rocks and once you fill your bucket you leave your bucket you come back by with your uh UTV or your John Deere Gator and you pick your rocks up in your buckets and take them to the creek throughout the uh food plot here probably got oh 10,000 rocks we don't need to pick up the great big rocks all we need to pick up is rocks that can damage uh our mower so anything bigger than half the size of your fist uh we'll go ahead and get up if you don't have rocks on your farm good for you uh this is Stony Ridge Farm for a reason

Auto-generated from the video audio.