Athens Seed, Lawn and Garden, Inc. Catalog

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FALL WILDLIFE FOOD PLOT SEED	SPRING WILDLIFE FOOD PLOT SEED	OUR TOP 10 GARDEN SEEDS	PREMIUM GRASS SEED	MISCELLA- NEOUS PRODUCTS
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Spring Wildlife Plot Food

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	Summer Bird Mix
	30% Dove Proso Millet, 30% Brown Top Millet, 20% WGF Sorghum, 15% Peredovic Sunflowers, 5% Buckwheat. Plant 30-50# per acre from mid-April through July.

	Summer Deer Mix
	30% Iron & Clay Peas, 33% Soybeans, 15% WGF Sorghum, 10% Brown Top Millet, 10% Buckwheat. Plant 50# per acre from mid-April through July.

	Peredovic Sunflowers
	Sunflowers grow 4-5 ft tall and provide cover for hunters while shattered seed attract birds. When mixed with cowpeas, doves, & quail will start feeding on the peas before the sunflowers mature. Plant 10-15# per acre in rows, 25-30# per acre broadcast, or mix 10# peas with 15# sunflowers. Plant in April-August and matures in 100 days.

	Partridge Peas
	An annual reseeding legume growing 1-5 ft tall which will grow most anywhere in all type soils. Provides good cover for quail and other wildlife. Gives protection, winter food, summer shade, and insect brood habitat. Prepare seed bed, cover lightly, pack with tractor tire or cult packer. A little fertilizer may be applied the first year, but on most soils is not necessary. With light disking or burning each spring in March the patch will reseed for years. Broadcast with cyclone seeder at a 10-15# per acre rate in February-July. Mature seed in about 110 days after germination. Seed have a very hard seed coat and germinate over a period of time insuring longevity of the stand.

	CHUFAS
	These plants grow like peanuts except they do not have a shell. Excellent for deer, turkey & hogs. Wildlife will scratch and dig the plants up once they find the tubers, which mature in 100-120 days. Plant 15-30# per acre in plots of at least 1/4 acre in April through late summer depending on location.

	Lab Lab
	A summer annual legume that produces high quality forage for livestock and deer. A tropical plant that is very heat and drought tolerant and adapted to warm regions of the Southeast and Texas. Lab Lab may be grown with forage sorghum, millet, or sorghum-sudangrass. The high quality legume is ideal for food plots, especially for deer. To establish Lab Lab for wild game food plots- disc, smooth, and firm seed bed. Plant 10# per acre. Plant inoculated seed in 38" rows 6"-8" apart. For wild game plots, you may want to plant with corn, millet, or sorghum to allow plants to establish.

	Dove Proso Millet
	The millet doves consume most, but relished by all game birds. It grows 3-6' tall and matures from head down. Seeds are produced in about 70 days. Plants bend over as seed matures dropping them to the ground. Seed has a bright coat, which protects it from mildew and makes it very attractive to birds. Plant 30-40# per acre in April-August.

	Wild Game Food Sorghum
	A most valuable source of winter food for quail and other wildlife. A short, fast maturing sorghum, which will produce seed, heads in 90 days or less. The plants will tiller and keep producing additional heads as long as there is moisture until frost. The seed is bitter until dry and the short stubby stalks (24- 30" tall) stand up well protecting the quality of the seed. No bird will touch it until ripe, but when mature all birds will eat. This makes WGF a must for proving food when other food sources are depleted. Plant 10# per acre drilled or 20# per acre broadcast in April-July.

	BUCKWHEAT
	An abundance of seed is produced in 70-80 days which holds onto the stalk well after ripening. It does well in any type of soil, poor, fertile, peat, sand, clay or loam. Plant for quail, doves, turkey, ducks, & deer. Plant in spring and summer at the rate of 40-50# per acre.

	Iron & Clay Peas
	Iron & Clay Peas are excellent for quail, dove & deer. Produces forage in 45 days and mature seed in 100 days. Plant 50# per acre in April-August.

	Soybeans
	An annual legume that is planted for deer to graze. Needs to be inoculated with S type innoculant. Plant 50# per acre in April-August.

	THAT'S NOT ALL!
	If you didn't see the type of clover or chicory, ect., that you were looking for, please be sure to check out our Fall Wildlife Food Plot Seed. Some types of seed can be planted in the fall or early spring, but because of space considerations we did not list them twice.