Recent content by BuckSutherland

I have a small farm operation so here is my take. 1. On the line where he is CLEARLY overplanting onto your land I would go out there tomorrow and pound a post every 50-100 feet. You can slip either a rain gutter downspout over it or take some 3-4" white PVC pipe and and make some 3-4 foot...

You could sink a couple red, blue or orange tractors. Ain't none of them worth a damn....

Picked up last Friday at the Nicollet county SWCD sale: 14 white cedar 2 gallon pots 10 ROD 10 red splendor crabs 10 SWO 10 Flame willow Also had a delivery from Chief River: 12 Canadian hemlock 7 concolor fir My wife and 8 year old daughter made 200 mile drive with me Friday afternoon and...

Happy 3rd Bday to this common wild apple from U of Idaho. I planted this tiny little plug in spring of 2021. It turned 3 years old last Saturday. It blew out of the 5 foot tube with ease. I put a 5 foot cage around it last summer. Hopefully it will turn into something decent. It has seen...

CWD is fake news....

If you get up a few miles north of me there is a lot of pin oaks. On the east side of Lake Winni towards Ball Club and Deer River LOTS of pin oak. I don't have a single one on my property that I know of. There is burr oak in my immediate area. SD's property is very close to mine and he has...

^^^ I have lifted up one corner of the weed mat and injected many times. This method is the most work, but has the best results. Sprinkling around the perimeter is fine too. Last year I simply threw an amount of fertilizer at my trees from a distance with most of it landing ON the weed mat...

10 2 gallon austrian pines 10 1 gallon meyer spruce 5 white cedar 1 gallon 25 black hills spruce bare root 25 white pine bare root 25 tamarack bare root 10 white cedar bare root 2 of my daughters skipped school on Friday and we ran up north and got this stuff all planted on Friday and...

I did this to about 10 of my weed mats this weekend.... When I am cutting down basswood and popple to make room for conifers and oaks I like to cut the crap up and get it in contact with the ground so it starts to rot immediately and then use it later on for "mulch". It doesn't take me long to...

I have been using 19-19-19 for 4 years with great success on my land. I like to inject it into the soil approximately 15-18" from the central leader and put it 8-12" deep. I make a slot with my wolverine shovel and dump a little bit in and then close it back up. My soils are high clay content...

I would take as much as you can get. I would wanna put on at least good 10-15 tons/ acre. 20-25 tons would be better if you can deal with it that thick. Hopefully you can get some really good composted manure. Some nice wet slimy stuff used for bedding and not stuff from around a hay...

^^^^ Yep... There is no comparison. If you really want them to go a bag of mulch and about a large tuna can of 19-19-19 injected under with weed mat. Then they really go. Trees just cant grow worth a damn in grass. They need the weed suppression to properly establish roots.

^^^ I got a couple red oaks with trunks in the 8-16" diameter range that dropped a MASSIVE load last year. One of them in particular has more acorns and caps laying under it than any tree I ever remember seeing. Some of mine look good coming out of winter and ready to plant. My brother...

I was supposed to get an order of 12 canadian hemlock and 6 concolor fir this week. They are not showing up cause they couldnt get them lifted. Probably the last time I order from them. I had some Dolgo crab a few years ago. All 5 of them died within a few weeks. Not impressed.

^^^ Probably half of all the conifers I have ever planted in my woods are white spruce that I rip out of the road ditch from underneath the powerlines. 95% of them get no special treatment, just transplanted and walk away. They are my least favorite spruce, but for the most part the deer...