What I'm working on this winter...

[hrcarver]

What is the deer's favorite cereal grain?

I have planted a couple small side by sides with oats, rye, wheat, and sucraseed's pasture sweetener (hybrid high sugar rye grass blend).

Getting ready

Test plot #1 (order of oats, rye, sucraseed, wheat from the corner of entry)

Test plot #2 (order is sucraseed, wheat, rye, and oats from the corner of entry)

A taste tester entering the plot...

to be continued.....

 

[hrcarver]

Added some labeled pics, so far the oats have it.

Both of these spots have a corner from which the deer tend to enter the area. I basically reversed the order in the two plots to help even out the fact that deer tend to munch on whatever exposes them the least (the edges), at least during daylight. In one plot the oats are in the corner of entry, and in the other plot the oats are on the far side. The deer will need to make a deliberate effort to walk past the others to get there.