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First off I should say I am not the most tech-savvy person. But this weird change just blew my mind. I have been checking cams for years using a plug in card reader (have used tons of cheap different ones) over the years and it has all been the same. Plug it in to my phone (have an I phone 16...

So I just had an idea for this spring/fall 2026...(bear with me I'm a biologist by degree and an amateur farmer at heart) I have 2 plots at my in laws place, one is a ~0.4 acre plot that was mowed/sprayed/seeded in the summer/fall 2023 (see this thread...

Found a few clover with this unusual coloring in my front field yesterday. This is not a field with great soil and there is an abundance of thistle in certain parts of it. Any idea what this could be? I’ve planted several different varieties of red and white clover in this field over the past...

Bought a few bags of WR at a local Amish store (have bought from there before with good results). A friend that I help with habitat stuff did the same and we broadcast it into some nuked fields and some fields that already had clover in them. It’s been a week and a half..with very little...

I admit it, I might have a grafting problem. My thought is to cut the Bradford pear (picture 1) and some other indeterminate species of pear (picture 2 and 3) which doesn’t produce well and has been stunted by a monster poison ivy vine) off at about chest level so they start throwing water...

So there is an off-chance I might be teaching English this fall, so I am putting this thread out there for suggestions for kids who may not have yet learned to love to read. I am an avid reader and have been since my parents smartly put a few copies of Field and Stream and Outdoor Life in my...

So I did a little grafting this spring back in about mid-April (some were various bought pear scion onto an existing Bradford pear and some were various of my own and bought apples/crabs onto a couple different existing apple trees). These are all at my house so I can (and do) keep a close eye...

So is like to talk about 2 plots here..one is at my grandparents farm..sprayed with gly and seeded heavily with a clover mix, brassicas and WR in late summer 2023. Was a killer plot that fall. Added some clover by overseeding spring 2024, then mowed in summer 2024. Plot got overtaken with weeds...

I’m in north central PA and haven’t pruned my trees yet. It’s supposed to get into the 50s tomorrow and the next three days then be above average temps for a few days after that…would like to go ice fishing today, but if the trees are gonna break dormancy I’ll skip the ice and do the pruning...

Tried to look into this question online but the answers were jumbled to say the least..can I graft some sweet cherry scion onto a wild cherry tree? Will it take? I got some sweet cherry scion to try to graft onto a weeping cherry in my front yard that while pretty, produces nothing…I am also in...

Going to be really jumping into grafting my pruned branches and some that I ordered onto other trees this year (not going for the rootstock grafting yet, am I don’t have that kinda time). How do you all tag your grafted branches so you remember what they are or do you just keep it in your notes...

Have an Anty tree that had a dead ash fall pretty much on top of it last summer. It knocked the top 3’ off the central leader down to height of about 3’ and hasn’t really recovered well. It has 2 limbs just below about a 2-4” nub of what used to be the central leader (kinda looks like a cross...

Have a couple large, mature pears (of indeterminate and mixed variety, think they are Asian?) in my front yard…they are between 30-40’ tall and this year several of them got lots of black spots (has happened in the past)on the leaves and did not produce many pears(first year there weren’t tons)...

Looking to get a dwarf or semi dwarf sweet cherry tree for my wife’s flower bed. Any suggestions for where I could get one or should I just scope out the end of growing season deals at the local Lowes? Also should I treat it like I do my deer trees with caging, weed mats, stones, etc…

Going to try a little something this summer/fall…the guy baling my neighbors hay went a little wild and took about a 25x75 yd swath on the edge of my field..thus leaving me a great spot for a new plot (yes I know it faces his house but he’s the game warden and don’t think he’ll do much...

https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/my-tree-my-tree-dad-tries-to-save-tree-from-oncoming-tornado/4a3f23a1-48f5-434c-99d9-c030552b606b Admit it, we would do this (and maybe have already) but probably only for a good sized fruit tree, not an ornamental in the yard… I know we would all be sadly...

So I missed a few days of spraying in a row with Sevin on my newly planted (this spring and last fall) crabs/apples/pears and some of them got whacked pretty hard by Gypsy moth caterpillars. I did hit all of them thoroughly with Sevin tonight but it is now raining and will be cool and wet for...

Got a sweet little Chestnut crab on M7 rootstock from Turkey Creek that has been in the ground 3 years and is just starting to bud out..have noticed that it’s leaves have been chewed on by something even now and saw a few small brown-green beetles on the leaves yesterday..really want this tree...

So it finally happened after a few small burns..had one get away fro me yesterday..took my weed torch up to the 2 food plots above my house and planned on just hitting the higher dead grass/weeds that I had left standing as a kind of break in between the 2 plots and at the top near the fence...

I know it’s too cold now, but here in PA we are having a very warm end to February. Is there a dramatic negative effect on grafts if it freezes/frosts? I know I need to wait a few weeks, but last year I waited too long and I don’t want to do that again…my issue is that it looks like the latter...