Scott's habitat improvements

[scott44]

Things are finally starting to wake up here.

Kieffer pear

Liberty

 

[Spiider]

Looks great! I'm having a tough time training my pear branches, they all want to shoot up as straight as possible. Are yours the same or is it just me? I use clothes pins to try to train them like I do my apple trees (which works), but not so much with the pears...

 

[scott44]

Looks great! I'm having a tough time training my pear branches, they all want to shoot up as straight as possible. Are yours the same or is it just me? I use clothes pins to try to train them like I do my apple trees (which works), but not so much with the pears...

Yes my pears are shooting up also, I have to do some training on mine.

 

[buckvelvet]

Thats about the status of 60% of my trees right now too scott, green tip. Things are looking good over there, & now we get a much needed few day soaker.

 

[scott44]

My hybrid willow and ROD cuttings are taking off. I planted some screens last year and they did less than stellar not because they didn't come up but because they were browsed heavily, 3-4' on the best ones. Added more willow cuttings where the ones didn't make it and to fill in some, if these don't take off I might have to fence these off we'll see.

Last years planting.

This years with some ROD stuck in between the willows.

I was in Home Depot a couple weeks ago and they had one lone Shumard oak on the pallet outside on sale for $15, it's about 7' tall so I bought it andit seems to be doing ok.

Kieffer pear.

Does are getting ready to drop and my first siting of velvet.

 

[Bill]

Once those ROD put down roots you can't kill them. I've got some in an old screen that I switched over to miscanthus. I've disked them, sprayed them with several types of herbicide "establishing the MG" and they won't die. I looked at them the other day and their about 4 foot shrubs. The deer eat them every year but they won't die....

Wish I planted 3 acres of those things it would be the eternal food plot.

 

[H20fwler]

That Kieffer is flat out loaded with blossoms!

 

[Spiider]

Looks really good! I've been able to use Deer Stopper Concentrate (Amazon) once every 2-3 months to keep the deer off the cuttings while they establish.

 

[scott44]

Looks really good! I've been able to use Deer Stopper Concentrate (Amazon) once every 2-3 months to keep the deer off the cuttings while they establish.

I will have to give it a try, thanks!

 

[scott44]

That Kieffer is flat out loaded with blossoms!

Yeah it's a good producer so far.

 

[scott44]

Did some work this last little bit, planted 5 apple trees at the house, planted our sorghum mix plot, bought and planted some dunstan chestnuts

Lightly disced up and planted a sorghum mix.

Last years rye with crimson clover, a little sparse in some areas. Going to let this go and roll it down in early to mid July for brassicas.

I'm really bad at labeling trees, I went through and labeled all the apple trees that still had the tags on and I could read them, I got 19 out of 25 labeled.

A big old Maple fell over during the winter into our seasonal pond, set a cam on it to see what pics I could get.

Saturday we went to Walmart and I walked through the garden center and found 3 pallets of Dunstans so I bought 6 and planted 3 yesterday. How to fit 6 Dunstans in the wife's Grand Cherokee.

Some velvet pics and our first fawn.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

That one fawn looks to be practically newborn!
Awesome pics as always Scott.

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[buckvelvet]

I always see folks talk about this dunstan chestnuts at walmart @scott44 but my walmart never has them.

 

[scott44]

I always see folks talk about this dunstan chestnuts at walmart @scott44 but my walmart never has them.

This is the first time I have seen them for sale in our Walmart, if you get on the Chestnut hill website they have a list of what stores they ship to and the dates.

 

[Native Hunter]

Everything looks great. I love the pictures of the pond.

 

[scott44]

I picked up a couple IBC totes for watering trees.

Sorghum mix plot planted a couple weeks ago is coming along good.

MG clusters I planted in the switch seems to be doing ok.

Getting all sorts of wildlife pics on the downed log.

 

[scott44]

Got some mowing done the last couple days, all my alfalfa/clover and my orchard, plus a throw and mow sorghum mix.

alfalfa/clover plot

Just need to get the inside of the cages cleaned now.

Throw and mow sorghum mix.

I bought a couple IBC totes for watering my trees, set it up with a 12V pump and it seems to work pretty good, I just need to find a trailer so I can leave it on there.

I planted 3 Dunstan's from Walmart on the edge of the alfalfa/clover.

Going to have a few apples.

 

[H20fwler]

Nice pics, things are looking great! Love the old 8N.

 

[scott44]

Nice pics, things are looking great! Love the old 8N.

Thanks! That tractor is just a touch newer than the 8n, it's a 1963 861.

 

[H20fwler]

K, those are work horses. We used to have a Jubilee edition that was a great utility tractor and easy to work on.