For those of you that do, what is your recipe (herbicide, seed, fertizer, etc)?

Did you disk up the area, apply herbicide and then seed. I have read that weed control is important for getting sunflowers established.

I didn't know you could plant dove!

If you do transplants, make sure you plant the doves with their heads up above ground, not the other way around. Found that one out the hard way.

Herbicide shouldn't come into the equation. Sunflowers are very bad weeds that choke out competing plants, and anything that you use to kill something that will give a sunflower a run for its money will kill the sunflower too. Pre-emergents included.

Just plow it, plant it and go. I don't think you'd have to fertilize it for a dove food plot unless you need some extra bulk to do a broadcast application (even then, a fertilizer distributor/co-op might balk at you putting sunflower seeds in their equipment.)

http://www.uaex.edu/Other_Areas/publications/PDF/FSA-2150.pdf

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I would spray a herbicide and then plant a millet sesame mix. Will be lower growing to the ground and easier to find down birds.

Also consider doing some heavy discing in febuaryish and you can get an awesome stand of croton ( dove weed ) if it in your area