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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 140335" data-attributes="member: 4743">My apples are in a slough area and seem to do well.  Biggest problem I had was porcupines eating the bark.  Took more than woven wire to protect with a 22 the best solution.  Other problem is coons with the corn.  Seem they all find my spots.  Fly bait with pop has work well for me with that problem.Traxion, I am not sure what you mean by open area but deer like to feel secure in their surroundings and there are reasons for corn with one being it does give deer some of this security if you have no trees or brush for them to hide behind as they visit your plot.  Also helps hide the spot from those that like to look at what you may have out there eating.  Spotting scopes do reach out.  Corn now is not as good for hiding as it was earlier but still it helps.  If you can make the plot big enough to have corn, flowers or some kind of plant to protect the spot.  Have been planting evergreens around some of my plots for that reason.  Also I believe evergreens will help the horns get darker.I quit the sunflowers due to the birds. Plot of flowers not big enough for the birds let alone for any deer feed.  However in the 70s flowers brought a lot of deer to where I grew up at in the winter.After doing this since 95 and learning a whole bunch it is nice to see all the interest in food plots and it appears from the comments some serious plots are being built.  If you have not done this, trust me, the rewards will be enormous besides the harvest of a deer.  It's a big world out there that I never seen in the old days making drives and hunting with a rifle.  And as one sits in your stand you will be surprise what you see with other hunters in the area.  As bucksnbear on here said take the time to do it right.  You can not get by with just throwing some seeds on the ground.  It would seem using the method of farming would work better.  I started out with a small plot and a garden tiller.  But the plot grew and bigger is better or so it seems.Son put vertical rubbing post with a branch on top in the plots.  Found they do work well, really well. db</blockquote>

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