Ive read somewhere that some people plant honey suckle for natural deer browse. Can anybody elaborate as to how they have theirs set up and when is the best time to plant. And more importantly, do the deer like it?

The deer eat the leaves but,in my area use it more for cover because it grows so thick. I plan on taking some off one property and transplanting it on my leased land. I do not know the best time so I'll keep doing it until it works. Time spent in the woods is time spent well. Good luck!

Thanks poo. The way I seen it in a magazine, they had made an A frame however long and they had chicken wire on both sides and they said that the deer would eat it as it grew outside of the chicken wire.

As far as using it as an attractant, your better off putting in an food plot and using the honeysuckel for cover.Do not use the chicken wire deal its a waste of time. If the suckel takes off, it spreads fast and grows rapid. Make sure the land owner approves. I lease a 67 acre farmette that is in prime whitetail country. I usually plant corn and beans in the late spring and have a couple of small plots of clover,chickory and rape. I found through the last few years its important to make sure you test the soil and apply the proper amount of lime and fertilizer. The beans and corn will grow dam near anywhere in the sun but the plot mixes have to have the right soil or your wasting money. I've also found that plot mixs companies use alot of weed seed as filler(inert matter on the bags contents = weeds).If you have a seed company,(farm co-op) close by you can go there and buy the seed that you'd like to put in cheaper than buying seed from gander mountain. If you have access to a small tractor with a disc , that works good. Doing it with a four wheeler can be done but its faster and does a better job with a tractor. I use a kabota with a garden tiller on my plots and it turns out fantastic.Till it spead your seed and pull a drag behind the wheeler to cover the seed and your done. It is expensive to do it but its pretty cool to watch deer using the feed.