UGE BY TEDDY KLARK easy and effective way to prepare that soil bed for your desired seed blend. Then, remove the debris with a rake and sow your seeds before a rain. Planting before a rain lets Mother Nature properly compact seeds down into the soil, allowing them to germinate immediately, before wildlife has a chance to eat them. For a spring food plot, you want to use a clover blend, which is highly nutritious for wildlife. Its high-protein content is particularly attractive to does nursing fawns. And we all know what happens in the fall wherever does congregate! Most perennial clover blends last several years with little upkeep beyond mowing occasionally to keep weeds down, and possibly a little "frost seeding" the following spring. Frost seeding is sowing additional seed at an existing, regenerating plot during that early spring freeze-and-thaw period. This method allows the ground to swallow the seed. Then when conditions are right, -HUNTING SUCCESS APRIL 2019 15