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I used to use cardboard. Used it for other trees too. One day I saw 2 crows. One was lifting up the cardboard while the other was picking bugs from under it. They even took turns. I do hybrid weedmats. I use 3ft round mats with an inch of crushed stone. Then use wood chips with no may...

I think there is some bit of a learning curve with certain scions and rootstocks. Might be a bit of knowledge to gain which scions do well with what rootstocks. Fedco in Maine sells trees on antonovka, but some seem to be on m111 only year after year. Saint Lawrence nursery would graft...

Kooch, No turning point in the order? That's a well liked one from chainsaw. PArent tree is about 30 miles away from my camp. Sandbur, There's a lot to complain about in NY. However, you can get 5 deer tags and like 4-5 months to use them. If you're not sick of being out in the cold by...

I add some oats to the blend. Seems to keep them interested in the spot earlier. I have luck with no till wheat only when there's plenty of thatch over the seed and the rain cooperates well.

Looks good. It is almost impossible to put down too much rye....... I think I started around 50lbs/acre and keep putting more down each year since. There are folks who put 150 and even some doing 200/acre. I am around 100/acre and did 125lbs/acre of feed rye. Basically harvested from the...

The logging lease camp went from 3a to 4a. You look at the USDA at my home, I am in a tiny blob of zone 6. You can't sell a used snowblower anymore. At camp, mid October to mid November is prime time. Otherwise many guys just hunt from their home areas. in NY you can bow hunting October...

A business is a great way to ruin a hobby.......... Retirement is getting closer and closer. Thinking ways of making a few more bucks and prevent uncle Sam from getting them too. Got a lot of newly moved out of NYC folks in my area, and folks visiting the weekend. Debating putting in 6 acres...

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder........ You get a few years into this, you want more deer. A few more than than better deer. A few years after that, you see time going by and just want to enjoy the outdoors like you did when you started. I get something easy to obtain in the...

The varieties and rootstock from Jung's and Fleet are just fine. I'd buy those, I'd probably buy more than one of them too if you see them again. fireside crab I am not familiar with. If I don't have a lot of new varieties to graft this year, I will be using my chestnut for a few pieces...

Tons of great advice on here. Low CEC, ammend lightly and amend often. I mix triple 15, 6-24-24, and potash (0-0-42?). Since your phosphorus is high, I'd blend some triple 15 and potash if you can find it. Alot of maintenance ferftilizer blends for apples are 5-8-12 relative ratio'd...

Keep the good pics coming. You got a few seasons on me, but remember when the crimson maple in my mom front yard was a tiny thing. Now it's a 40ft+ monster. Any variation in your big dogs? I think you got a few. You have both noran and northland crabapples? Looking around for a few deer...

Keeping my eyes open on this thread.......... Anyone use one to drag a deer back to camp with or without a cart? Anyone use theirs around salt water. Originally wanted one more for surf fishing, but can be real handy at camp too. No rough trails really, either up the snowmobile trail or...

Best deer at camp, guys partied all night with music on. Guy was a little too ethanoled out to go hunt in the morning. Saw the buck Infront of the outhouse before he was going to use it. 20 yard shot..... PRobably 15-20 years ago.

Went to state land today. Too windy to go to farmland. Also, the brother-in-law's farm is for the employee's this weekend. No deer..... Saw a nice owl, if that's nice not seeing deer. Tons of sign for public land though. 20-30mph winds, so no big expectations there. Took the old...

Expenses must be less than income, otherwise its a hobby in a few years......... Am I wrong? Leasing land to a farmer? Logging at some point. The absolute worse kind of taxes are back ones..........

If it's tougher to get out of the case. WHen I played with old marlins years ago, I would replace the extractor unless it looks about perfect. The chamber could use a good cleaning. Sometimes pitted bores do better with lead cast bullets.

I do a lot of driving in the Catskill mountains for work. Everywhere I see tree tubes, don't see much coming out of them. Cages are much much better. And reusable. I have 3 year old bareroot apple trees I can remove the cage and put a smaller buck rub protector on it. Basically a fraction...

Hunted the larger property, soybeans harvested 2 weeks ago. Wasn't feeling so lucky. About 7:30am a coyote came in at 175, then a second one about 5 minutes later at 125. I left them in a big field until about 2pm when I got off the stand to stretch my legs. Field section here is about...

A lighter year for the Warren's crab.

This is the trees near my old house. I go past them going to work everyday. Pics were from today. Top pic is tree next to the main one I've been eyeing a few years. Trees seem similar. Apples are very firm and hanging well. They taste like regular apples, not bitter at all. Kinda like a...