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Saw this the other day. Any interesting stuff being seen out there?

Farmer next to my house is combining about 150 acres of beans right now. Must be a couple hundred seagulls spread over the fields, one every 40-50 ft. Closest lake or major dam on a river is over 10 miles away. Those bird brains must be smarter in a group. Btw, 53 deg right now and they are...

Ran across some info from MSU - Michigan State University recently and might be of interest to others. Couple points to note. They try to classify apples per the typical 4 categories sweet, sharp, bittersweet, bittersharp and give evaluations for apples actually grown in upper midwest conditions...

CC is a member of the nettle family but does not sting when you rub into it. Deer leave it alone all summer and for some reason right before fall for about two weeks they browse it pretty well. It is one of those plants that grows well in full shade and into partial sun on the edge of a thick...

So a little background. Had a small plot of beans last year that got decimated and did not canopy much. So late in the summer threw out some rye and some clover. Fast forward to this year and let the rye mature and waited to roll over it with the cultipacker to lay all the thatch down and let...

Well interesting enough that our winter wrapping up this year must be about the same as we had in 2019-2020. Saw my first sandhill crane in NE WI today and the snow is about 80%-90% melted in fields around my house. Ran across a few weeks ago while writing down my propane tank level over the...

A recent thread about tree spacing prompted me to dig up some old pics. First a little background. This is NE Wisconsin in sandy loam with a growing season of about mid May till Labor Day. The objective in planting spacing was based on forestry practices for volume growth, not on deer habitat or...

First thought was cup plant but the leaves do not seem right as need two leaves opposite each other. Rosinweed does not match up either. Former rocky cow pasture so would assume tastes yucky or would have been wiped out...

About the latest I have seen pears blossom around here is this year. Cleaned out around this old wild pear tree about 5 years ago when I first noticed some blossoms where I had been looking for at least ten years going up my hill and never saw anything. This tree is easily pushing 50 ft high...

Not so much for picking up pallets any more when they are only about 30" long. But when always dealing with rocks and stumps they work great to push into the ground and lever stuff. If they were the typical longer ones it would be very hard to work into the ground like I do. This type of work is...

See the Midwest hazelnut org has updated their fact sheet about new cultivars. These are being grown to eventually try to establish a commercial presence in the Midwest. Most to be available by 2021, some by 2020. Too early for listing which nurseries will eventually carry what but the one...

Ranetka, edit: 5th leaf. They ripen a little after Dolgo. Not too surprising since Dolgo is part of the cross for Ranetka. Actually I think Dolgo is better/sweeter than Ranetka but read that Ranetka can hang into winter so have let some grow after not getting around to grafting something else to...

American or foreign crap?

An owl maybe? Bigger than any tweetie bird but smaller than a turkey. Turkey doesn't have this coloration anyway

ok so a buddy gave me some antelope steaks to try. Anybody got a good recipe to share. Thx

Not primo looking but maybe good deal?? https://appleton.craigslist.org/grd/6049473571.html

Ok maybe a bit of a mundate topic but planning on moving a bunch of white spruce this spring and currently have a cheap long narrow shovel I had used for planting bareroots but it flexes too much. For planting I have just gone to using a post hole digger. But digging and moving gotta get...

Anybody know if they have nursery stock that has been developed to fight butternut canker. The local conservation club is offering these again but unless improved tree not a good bet for here. The canker has been wiping out all the native trees the last 15 years and the giant tree remaining on...

Saw they wanted $1900 for a Detco two seater. Looks like address is actually Germantown http://appleton.craigslist.org/grd/5918244206.html