What are you planting for habitat - Spring 2018?

[Bowsnbucks]

I have 4 Chinese chestnuts ordered, and will order 50 Norway spruce, 50 balsam fir, 25 red osier dogwood, and 5 highbush cranberries. The evergreens will be planted in logged areas to add to ongoing cover/bedding improvements. The ROD will line a wetter swale at the edge of the logged area. The Chinese chestnuts and the cranberries will be planted at the edges of some existing food plots.

 

[Bill]

Other than transplanting some MG and the food plots my planting is going to be limited this year.

It's time to fire the chainsaw back up for me. Some of my small plots are being shaded as the larger trees have grown to the light in the openings. Time to edge feather those and get to re hinge cutting old cover. After that it's on to making some new hinge cut areas. As the years have past it's obvious the adding cover truly is the best management tool for my farm. Plots are nice but when the rut swings in, cover is key.

I was going to do a big 17 acre destination plot this year but decided it might be more in my favor to let a neighbor farm it. He has a reputation on not letting anyone recover deer on him. I'm certain after 11 years of being decent to him and now leasing him the ground I could if I ever had to.

 

[SoInHunter]

I have 200 Norway, 100 White pine, 100 american plum, 100 elderberry, 100 Choke Cherry and 100 white oak ordered to plant.
Going to also order a few apple and a few pear to start some soft mast on the farm.

I also need to spray and/or burn approximately 8 acres of old pasture to try and get rid of the cool season grasses.
Would love to do some hinge cutting but don't know if time will allow.

 

[chucker66]

I am hoping to plant about 1000 spruce trees, mark a few areas for food plots, and do some hinge cutting for a blockade to one of my plots. Also need to mark some sidewalks and cut them a bit.
Big list and I'm sure I won't get half of it done but I keep working at it!!!
Chuck

 

[j-bird]

I have 6 crabapples coming, I have 100 Swamp white oak acorns to plant and a few chestnuts. I hope to have some MG to prep as well and hopefully I can get my hands on a few container chestnuts to plant as well to replace a few I have lost. Other than that maybe a new perennial kill plot and my summer annual plots.

 

[KDdid]

My goals are to transplant a bunch of willow cuttings to some wet areas, plant about 500 Norway spruce plugs, transplant some RODs, and plant/tube another hundred oaks. I’m also expanding my NWSG field where I ran out of switchgrass seed in February of ‘17.


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[chickenlittle]

No real plans yet. Have some dogwoods that got heeled in and never moved. Could see ordering an AU Buck IV chestnut. Stuff I wanted from the Missouri MDC sold out before I ordered. Nothing really needed from the NH nursery. Will see if anything jumps out at me from the PA Game Commission nursery, maybe some white spruce. Good chance I'll order some persimmon and paw paw scionwood for field grafting.

Chainsaw work is needed more than anything along with spraying of autumn olive, honeysuckle, and barberry.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

^^^^^^^ Amen on the barberry, Chickenlittle. We have a batch of it and the birds spread it like crazy. We'll be spraying ours too. And ferns.

 

[Native Hunter]

Thanks for reminding me that I need to be planning for spring. I don't have a lot of room left, but feel a guy always needs to be adding at least a few trees. I have some more topworking to do as well and lots of chainsaw work.

 

[Barndog56]

25 norway spruce and 25 hazelnut. Just trying to thicken up the entrance area to my fruit and nut orchard. Deer have to walk through about 30 yards of open field to get there now, so they usually wait til dark. Once it gets tall enough they'll be able to reach it without leaving cover.

Also have 200 miscanthus rizomes on order for additional orchard screening.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

I will be doing some work with a chainsaw this winter, then come spring I will be opening up a spot for a new 40'x50' garage, so that once the ground thaws, I can get going on the foundation, and finish up the garage this summer. My habitat work will totally depend on how the garage gets finished. I over seeded all of my plots with winter rye this past fall, so there will be something growing in them, and suppressing weeds while I am building. Then if I have time in July, I will plant turnips and radishes, if I dont have free time in July, I will hold out until Labor Day, and just plant oats, winter wheat, and winter rye again. Keeping things simple this year, but I wont forget to get something in for them.

 

[tynimiller]

Mix of planting and removal as well. My land I bought last March is gonna be aggressively logged of anything of timber value except maybe one or two big oak producers....few more crabapples to be planted, one pear added to the others in the area, 100 rhizomes of MG will be ordered...and I am thinking of adding a solid amount of highbush cranberry as well.

 

[Boll Weevil]

Planted 3 varieties of apple tree last winter but don't have plans to plant anything this winter. Mostly timber stand improvement with saws, basal spray, hack/squirt + edge feathering and cleaning up field edges that have encroached. It's so much more pleasant to tote a backpack sprayer when it's cool.

 

[Tree Spud]

So far I have the following planned .... one of my primary goals is to continue to expand the thermal cover.

500 White Spruce
200 Balsam Fir
200 Choke Cherry
100 Aspen
25 White Oak
50 Red Pine
25 White Cedar
125 Norway Spruce (2'-3' size)
125 Blue Spruce (2'-3' size)
1200 Micanthus Gigantus rhizomes

Frost seed this winter another 5-6 acres with CIR switch grass
10-12 acres of food plots
2 water holes
2-3 new box blinds up, 2-3 ladder bow stands

 

[bueller]

So far I have the following planned .... one of my primary goals is to continue to expand the thermal cover.

500 White Spruce
200 Balsam Fir
200 Choke Cherry
100 Aspen
25 White Oak
50 Red Pine
25 White Cedar
125 Norway Spruce (2'-3' size)
125 Blue Spruce (2'-3' size)
1200 Micanthus Gigantus rhizomes

Frost seed this winter another 5-6 acres with CIR switch grass
10-12 acres of food plots
2 water holes
2-3 new box blinds up, 2-3 ladder bow stands

That's a lot of work. You must be retired...

 

[Tree Spud]

That's a lot of work. You must be retired...

Not a this point in time ... I need the outside time and physical activity to offset work stress ...

 

[H20fwler]

To ad to my shrub strips;

Six more crabs from NWC
100, 3'-4' white pine
25, 2'-3' Norway Spruce
50, 3'-4' white cedar
50, 3' high bush cranberry
25, 3' hazelnut
all from Coldstream Farm
10, 2' Chinese chestnut from Empire
and a few more 3 gal Dunstan's from Chestnut Hill

 

[TreeDaddy]

How are you planting? With an auger? Post hole digger? Shovel?

bill

 

[Haus]

I'll be planting 150 cedars, and 40 American plum.
Also, I will have about 8 fruit trees consisting of Freedom, Liberty, and Arkansas Black.

I currently have about 50 chestnut seeds in the fridge for the first time, so we'll see how that goes.

 

[H20fwler]

I do all my planting with a shovel and my two sons, we rotate with digging and setting trees and covering.