Recent content by mthompson

WDNR surface water data viewer shows that it's mostly delineated wetland and wetland indicator....except the spot right around the cabin and pole shed. I can't get these maps to print with all the data layers because my internet connection is too slow to work with their servers....but this map...

A little-known fact, with regards to the total human population on Earth....and one that many people will absolutely not fathom as true because of the "world is over-populated" dogma of the past 30 years.... If you took every last Man, Woman, and Child (7.48 billion people) and you put them all...

Just an update....well, not much change really. I "treated" all the trees last Thursday (3/16/17) with Bti (Mosquito Dunks/Bits is the brand I used). Not much change has happened with the DCO, except one of them, which was failing pretty bad, has died back to the soil surface. The others show...

The process itself is fairly simple....here's a good website that can answer most of your questions: https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/plant-propagation-by-stem-cuttings-instructions-for-the-home-gardener Basically you find some shoots with healthy buds forming, cut sections from these shoots in the...

I do pretty quick and generic fur-on hide tanning... Mostly for fly tying material. The "pickle" is a step that locks the hair in the hide. Just submerge the whole hide in the pickle solution which is water, oxalic acid to pH 1-2, and salt.... Roll and flip the hide every once in a while, and...

Yes, dwarf chinkapin oaks... I received them in a trade on the seed exchange thread. I also received some regular Chinkapin oaks, Persimmons, and apples. Plus I collected a bunch of different crab apples from around here...at work we have dozens of crab varieties, and the deer and other...

Right now, it seems to be just the dwarf chinkapins...some of these look worse than others. But I know this same thing started with just one species last year and things got worse and worse. Mostly just brainstorming with you guys and trying to figure it out. I see pictures in the other...

This mix drains very fast (seems like >30% perlite, and mostly large bark)....I first posted C/20, but it's actually C/25...from the interwebs: "Pro-Line C/25 This mix of processed pine bark fines, Canadian sphagnum peat, coarse perlite and medium vermiculite is geared toward growing...

1) Are those 18s in the picture? - Yes, I'm using RM-18's for all of these. 2) What medium are you using? - I am using Jolly Gardener Pro-Line C/25 greenhouse mix, plus I add some compost (maybe 10%) and a small amount of Osmocote. 3) Are you using rain water, well water, or city water? If...

I know for sure this not in all cases and read a lot of people on garden websites recommending it. Last year the larvae were still alive eating the tap roots after a month of no water in rm-18 cups (plants were dead, so I stopped watering and never got around to emptying them out)... The soil...

Moving outside is 2+ months away here, we just got a fresh 10" of snow yesterday! I use the compost (my own) in the mix and the worm casting tea to help give the soilless mix some life. I had no choice but to plant in Jan/Feb since everything was germinating in my fridge....Usually try to...

Yeah John, the larvae of the fungus gnats live in soil and eat organic matter... Especially young tender roots. When I pulled the buckeyes last year, their 1/4" thick tap roots were opened like a banana and hundreds of tiny white slimy larvae were eating their way up the centers. I just...

I have a handful of seedlings started again this year, and some are starting to look like how my oaks & chestnuts did last winter before they all died...tips browned, leaves yellowing. I noticed a couple fungus gnats flying around (last year they caused major root damage on most things), so...

We have a longer archery season in select areas, in an effort to control deer numbers. And these deer have humans, in general, figured out and any deviation from the normal day-to-day...bam, nocturnal for weeks. So many deer it should be easy pickin's most of the time, but they know where to...

Well, today marks the end of our Archery season in the Metro Sub-unit (WI). I wasn't able to ever get ahead of the deer here at work, as they would be out during daylight one day and then once I started trying to put the slip on them...bam, nocturnal for weeks. We did end up getting 18 deer...