I hunt in southeast Va. with a club of 36 members. We have started some food plots with success this fall and now are getting ready for spring. I would like to know if lablab and buck beans work well in sandy soil. We really had a great fall growing season. The deer definitely stayed on our property this season. There are some doubters in the club but they are starting to come around. Government trying to do away with the use of hounds in Virginia and I myself want food plots established before that happens.Pine and briars thick enough you will never see and big buck without food plots.

i along with fellow club members in south carolina have planted cowpeas in sandy soils. they surprisingly did well but tend to become overgrazed. larger plot areas for cowpeas are your best bet.  lab lab is pretty much the same. both withstand drought well and need well drained soils. both also shoud be innoculated before planting.

THANKS FOR THE INFO! TRYING TO WRAP UP OUR SEASON THIS WEEK

I planted a mixture from Tecomate last spring, in NE Kentucky, on my place.  It had a variety of peas, beans, soybeans, and then included corn and sorghum.  It did well.  The turkeys were plentiful, also because I had planted chufa, adjacent to this plot, but there were plenty of deer.  I watched with trail cam. 

What I noticed was they all enjoyed the early green leafs, and short stuff.  Then in July when the corn and sorghum became taller, more bucks were noticed in the daytime hours.  I suspect because they felt safer with the cover provided from the taller corn and sorghum.  I forgot the exact name of the Tecomate combo.  Maybe somebody can offer that name here.