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Hey all, So I tried something new this year, and did a spray/roll routine after I broadcast my brassicas. While I've done this in the past, I did it around the beginning of July, as last year it took 2 weeks for them to sprout. Long story short, we hit a month long dry spell and I've only had...

Hey all, I am currently rotating the LC mix of grains/clover and then brassicas. Where I planted the grains and clover last year I have tons of what I call "wild oats". My normal routine is to broadcast, spray, and then roll. My question is, because I have a significant amount of these "oats"...

Hey all! Long time, no post! I've got a "quick" question regarding a screen that I'm planting this year. I've got a half acre food plot, and I disced a 10-15 ft wide, and ~100ft strip down the center of it (so overall 1000-1500 ft^2). I'm planning on trying a mixture of sunhemp and EW. It's my...

Hey all, So I've got a handful of American Chestnuts that I'll be planting in the next year or so. I am thinking of putting them on the border of my NSWG and foodplot. I figured hard mast + the plot is a good look. My question is, if I set these about 10 feet into the NWSG, would they grow ok...

Hey all, I've got some extra HC, Liberty, a bunch of Goldrush, and a few enterprise left. Additionally, I've got some extras of a sour acid and kinda sweet wild apple that appears to be fairly resistant to diseases, as well as an old apple the my grandpa planted that is very resistant as far as...

Hey all, So I've been doing a ton of reading this winter, and the book I just finished is "The Apple Grower" by Michael Phillips. Although this book is geared towards giving COMMERCIAL orchards a primer on organic/biodynamics I think that for those of us who are growing apples for ourselves as...

Hey all, I was doing some browsing and I came upon a few good sources for apples and their descriptions, scionwood, and trees. I'm not sure if they've been posted, but here they are! http://www.heirloomorchardist.com/the_heirloom_orchardist/ http://www.masonvilleorchard.com/scionwood.htm...

So I got my MF 135 running well. I changed one hydraulic line, and I changed the oil, and there is a little leak in one gasket, but we've got a guy who restores tractors coming on Saturday to take a look at her. He is the same one that spent about 2 hours (maybe only and hour and a half) to...

Well I got my first deer of the year. I had deer around me at 6pm. A spike and a fork were chasing her around a bit so it took about half an hour to get a good broadside or quartering away shot. She was quartering away, and dropped right there. I'm not sure what the arrow hit, but it didn't...

Hey all, Well I'm not making cider this year, but I absolutely plan to in the next few years. I'll be topworking more cider varieties this spring, so hopefully in a few years I've got enough to make some cider! I am looking to buy a cider press, and I'm debating whether or not to go with a...

Does anyone have experience with planting a row, meaning 1 pass with your disc however big it is, of Egyptian wheat in the middle of a plot? I'm thinking of running an LC mix type deal next year, and i was thinking of adding a 6 foot line of EW to add some extra cover.

Hey all, If anyone is buying rootmakers this year, and happens to have a commercial account, I'd love to piggy back on the order! I'm just looking at the prices for retail and they are crazy!

Hey all, I have some SWO and other oaks that I'm trying to direct seed. What do you all do for site prep (if anything), and how deep do you plant them? Do you use tubes right now or wait until they come up? Anything for rodent control?

Hey all, I was at a park recently, and in one of the more wild sections (this park is ~100 years old, and was actually recently made a state park) I found a tree that I thought was hawthorn, based on the leaves. I grabbed a fruit and took a bite, IT WAS SWEET! The leaves are telling me hawthorn...

Hey folks, Well I promised to start up a thread recently, and I got a little behind but here it is! As you guys may or may not know, part of what I like doing on my property is general habitat "rehab". I say rehab because A/O has taken oven in MANY places, and I'm trying to make my land a...

Hey all. I'm suckers today from a crab. They have their own roots. Let meveryone know if anyone wants some.

Hey all, So I'm finding more room for trees! I'm planning on putting in 8 on my one property/one side of the road, depending on your feedback! They'll all be DR varieties or varieties that are suitable for low/no spray. Basically I'll keep the japanese beetles off of them and then do a dormant...

Well my parents finally let me do some landscaping at one of our rental properties (metro Detroit ). I wanted low maintenence, since I end up doing the weeding every year. I put down landscape fabric (from John) and mulched with free wood chips from our city. I put one ninebark at the left...

Hey all, I'm in the business for new baselayers, and I'm still stuck between scent lok baseslayers (the ones with the scentlok in them) and just going full merino. I'll probably just get the lightest weight scentlok and then get some nice leggings and a sweater to put over them... EITHER WAY...

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