🌱 Whitetail Institute Beets & Greens – 12 lb

Think of it as your main fall/winter food source for holding deer.

✅ Basic info

• Bag: 12 lb

• Coverage: ~2 acres

• Type: Fall annual (brassica + root mix)

• Purpose: attract & hold deer all hunting season

🌿 What’s in it

Same proven blend as the 3 lb bag, just more seed:

• Sugar beets (high sugar energy)

• Turnips (bulbs + greens)

• Radishes

• Kale & leafy brassicas

👉 Designed so everything works together:

• Leaves get eaten first

• Roots get eaten later

🦌 What it does (this is why guys plant 12 lb bags)

🍃 1. Early attraction (Sept–Oct)

• Fast-growing greens = immediate draw

• Deer start hitting it within weeks of planting

❄️ 2. Frost turns it into candy

• Cold temps convert starch → sugar

• Makes:

  • beets sweeter

  • turnips more attractive

👉 This is when big bucks pile in (Nov–Dec)

🥔 3. Late-season food source

• Produces underground bulbs (tubers)

• Deer:

  • paw them up

  • eat through snow

👉 Keeps deer alive when natural food is gone

🎯 4. Holds deer ALL season

• Designed to work fall → late winter

• Multiple foods at once keeps deer coming back

📅 When to plant (Michigan)

• Late July – mid August

• Ideal timing:

  • 6–8 weeks before first frost

👉 Key rule:

• Too early = stems get tough

• Too late = small bulbs, less draw

🌱 How to plant

1. Disk/till soil

2. Broadcast seed evenly

3. Cover very lightly:

   • ⅛"–¼" deep

4. Fertilize (important for bulb growth)

🔥 Best way to use the 12 lb (this is a killer setup)

OPTION 1 — Main destination plot

• Plant full 1–2 acre field

• Put stand on edge

👉 This becomes your:

• rut magnet

• late-season feeding area

OPTION 2 — Mix it with oats/peas

Add:

• oats

• winter peas

👉 Now you get:

• early season draw (oats/peas)

• late season dominance (beets/turnips)

OPTION 3 — Rotate from PowerPlant

1. Spring:

   • PowerPlant or Sunn Hemp

2. Late summer:

   • broadcast Beets & Greens into it

👉 Gives:

• year-round food

• zero downtime

💡 Pro tips

• Fertilizer = BIG bulbs (don’t skip it)

• Best near bedding areas

• Needs sunlight

• Frost = your best friend

👍 Bottom line

12 lb Beets & Greens = your main hunting food plot

• Early leafy attraction ✔

• Late-season sugar bombs ✔

• Underground food for winter ✔

• Keeps deer on your property ✔

🧠 Simple system using everything you’ve got

• Spring: PowerPlant / Sunn Hemp

• Late summer: Beets & Greens (12 lb field)

• Around stands: smaller kill plots (3 lb, oats, etc.)

👉 That setup =
food from May through February + deer in bow range