Bokster, what your recommending sounds good, i know alot of the US guys use this mixture. I use alot labino clover and brassica plots but this past year i added sugar beets. As of this past week the deer started to dig through the 3 inches of snow to get to the clover and surgar beet roots. There was hundreds of spots that they had dug to get clover or beets. I will be switching to the strip plots as you have mentioned above as it is a natural way to save on fertilizer and i think it helps with weed control based on there planting times. The big thing is planting in your area based on the first frost, there are a couple of guys on this site here that can give you a better date for these plantings. TH