Herbicide spot treatment.

Just curious how you all spot treat small (sometimes only a single weed) areas in your food plots. I’ve got just a handful of broadleaf weeds coming up in my clover plots (already killed the grass with cleth). It’s appears that it’s mostly bracken ferns.
 
elbow grease ;).......no i don't have that much time of my hands. Mowing in my experience helps clover...i would say i end up mowing 2-3x a season helps the clover compete.

Also, a lot of times deer love some variety in the food plots. I think our mind is trained in agriculture monoculture crops of one single species, but deer are not out there giving yelp ratings if you have few weeds in there. Seen deer on perfectly good clover plot eat right down the edge where there was just weeds growing at the time.
 
We put a small plastic container on the end of the backpack spray nozzle (put a hole in bottom of container and tape it on above the nozzle). Hold the cup to the ground over the weed and spray lightly. For larger sections we use a 5 gallon plastic pail with the bottom cut out of it. Tie a rope around the handle so the pail can be picked up easily. Spray into the bucket.

With all of that Bone Crusher is on the money; some types of weeds are a great addition to food plots. Broken ferns and a few others though are on my hit list also.
 
I don’t worry too much about a few weeds unless they are of a variety that will quickly take over, like pigweed for instance. I’ll stop whatever I’m doing and pull them up.
 
Just curious how you all spot treat small (sometimes only a single weed) areas in your food plots. I’ve got just a handful of broadleaf weeds coming up in my clover plots (already killed the grass with cleth). It’s appears that it’s mostly bracken ferns.
Focus on understanding why that plant is there, and then fix it. My best weed preventers have been lime and fiber. Nothing dies or gets poisoned. You just move the cheese.
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Soil will grow what is best fit for the environment. Acid soil grows acid loving plants. Glyphosate soils will grow glyphosate resistant plants. Wet soils grow wet loving plants. High nitrogen soils will grow high nitrogen use plants. Compacted soils will grow compaction plants.
 
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