I hunt on a timber lease in an area where building a "meaningful" food plot is out of the question and feeding corn, etc. is getting too expensive.
I'm thinking of ways to improve the natural vegatation around my stands.
I'm looking for suggestions.
Currently, I have a few berry bushes (not enough), some grasses (not sure what kind), some small volunteer pine trees (about 12 inches tall), some muscatine vines and some other green vines.
I'm thinking that I need to promote "green" growth for as long as possible during hunting season.
At one of my stands I have a ton of these green bushes about shoulder high that produce little purple berries. I never saw the deer eating the berries but they love the leaves of these bushes. Any body know what these bushes are called???