🌱 Whitetail Institute Beets & Greens – 3 lb

This is one of the best fall / late-season kill plot mixes — totally different role from PowerPlant and Sunn Hemp.

✅ Basic info

• Bag: 3 lb

• Coverage: ~½ acre

• Type: fall annual (brassica blend)

• Purpose: attract and hold deer during hunting season

🌿 What’s in it

This is a brassica + root crop mix:

• Sugar beets (super sweet)

• Turnips

• Radishes

• Kale / leafy greens

👉 Important:

• Greens = early season food

• Roots = late season food

🦌 What it does (this is why it’s deadly)

🍃 1. Early-season attraction (Sept–Oct)

• Deer hit the leafy tops first

• Fast growth = food quickly after planting

❄️ 2. Gets BETTER after frost

• Cold converts starch → sugar

• Makes it:

  • sweeter

  • more attractive

👉 This is why brassicas explode in November–December

🥔 3. Late-season survival food

• Deer dig up:

  • beets

  • turnips

  • radishes

👉 Underground “tubers” feed deer through winter

🍬 4. High energy draw

• Sugar beets = high carbs

• Deer crave this during:

  • rut

  • cold weather

👉 It’s like candy to them

🎯 5. Holds deer on your property

• Keeps producing fall → late winter

• When everything else dies off… 👉 THIS is what they come to

📅 When to plant (Michigan)

• Late July → mid-August (ideal)

• Goal:

  • 6–8 weeks before first frost

👉 Key rule:

• Too early = gets woody

• Too late = doesn’t bulk up

🌱 How to plant

1. Disk/till soil

2. Broadcast seed

3. Cover VERY light:

   • 1/8"–1/4" deep

4. Fertilize (nitrogen helps a lot)

👉 Small seed = don’t bury it deep

🟢 Best uses

✅ PERFECT for:

• Kill plots

• Stand locations

• Small field corners

• Bow hunting setups

❌ NOT for:

• Spring planting

• pure summer plots

🔥 Killer strategy (this is how to use it RIGHT)

✅ Best setup:

Late summer plant:

• Beets & Greens

OR even better:

Mix with:

• oats

• winter peas

👉 Gives you:

• early attraction (oats/peas)

• late attraction (beets/turnips)

✅ Ultimate food plot system

1. Spring:

   • PowerPlant or Sunn Hemp

2. Late summer:

   • Overseed Beets & Greens + oats

👉 That gives you:

• food ALL year

• deer NEVER leave

💡 Pro tips

• Needs sun (not great in thick woods)

• Add fertilizer → makes big bulbs

• Frost = GOOD (don’t worry about cold)

• Works AWESOME near bedding

👍 Bottom line

Beets & Greens = hunting plot seed

• Early season leaves ✔

• Late season bulbs ✔

• Sweetness after frost ✔

• Keeps deer around when nothing else does ✔