Early season work

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I got some early season work done on the apples and crabs at camp last Thursday. Pruning was done back in March, so I fertilized about half of our 61 trees with 15-15-15. I worked it into the ground in a circle around the trees. Mushroom compost will be added in a wider circle in about 2 or 3 more weeks. The other half of the trees will be fertilized next weekend or the one after it. - - - Grafting done / waiting for buds to pop.

Also cut part of a multi-trunked pine tree down that was putting too much shade into an area with 5 apple trees that is a bow hunting spot. I'll plant another apple in there in another week or 2 once this cold snap is over. The rest of that pine tree will also come down. I use the branches from the pine tree to make ground blinds and brush piles for deer or grouse to use in bad weather. Nothing goes to waste !!

Trimmed a bunch of water sprouts from the trunk of one of our OLD apple trees, so the energy goes to apple production. Also over-seeded some thin spots in an existing white clover plot with some Alice white clover. That's a FEW things scratched off my list of chores at camp. Lots more to do & plant. All fun !!

What are you guys all up to with your early chores ??
 
What are you guys all up to with your early chores ??
I only have a handful of young fruit trees and those were pruned and fertilized a couple weeks ago. None on order for this year. In other news my pine and spruce plugs will be delivered this week and planted this weekend.
 
I know it's not trees, but I started on my first food plot. I've always helped a friend of mine but I'm in contract to buy some property that I have leased for the past 2 years and decided to start working on it.
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Soil samples, fert, mulching, some grafting work, brush removal and burning, and most all training, training, training!
 
I know it's not trees, but I started on my first food plot. I've always helped a friend of mine but I'm in contract to buy some property that I have leased for the past 2 years and decided to start working on it.
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I like the looks of that!
 
I'll keep posting pics on my progress. Waiting on soil samples to come back from biologic. I'm planting a row of cover on the left and then durana clover and chicory on the rest.

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Done grafting and burning down half my woods . Now will worry about cold temps until Memorial Day lol. I haven't fertilized ever. But I did have the fire dept at my place as I was burning my FB limbs and the fire got away and started burning leaves and some trees. About 30 guys showed up and 2 huge firettrucks They trucks couldn't get to the fire so they used a pickup with water tank and quad and all the guys had rakes and water bladder sprayers. I felt like such a jerk lol. Sending a nice donation to the fire dept lol
 
Aero I bet you had your fill of excitement for awhile. Hope the damage wasnt too severe.
 
Aero I bet you had your fill of excitement for awhile. Hope the damage wasnt too severe.
Yes I have haha. Now it's the real pain of worrying about temps over the next month. So far so good . Maybe around 10% damage but that is nothing compared to the amount of thinning I should have done last year so god did it for me lol. Now hope for temps above 20 for a week or so and 25 after that for few more weeks
 
Don't worry about, merlehawgard did the same thing and burnt down an old house at his place.
 
Don't worry about, merlehawgard did the same thing and burnt down an old house at his place.
Thank god mine was not close to house and it wasn't really that bad just a lot of volunteers who needed some practice lol
 
Every spring I go in and mow around 3 rows of trees about 1,200 feet long in each row, with some kind of tree roughly every 12 - 15 feet. I did that chore the other day with a walk behind DR mower. These trees are apples, pears, sawtooths, serviceberry, witch hazel, red osier, plums, cherries, paw paw, chestnuts, persimmons, mulberry, peach, hazelnuts and a few things I don't even remember.

As the year goes on, it will all grow back up with weeds, briers, etc. but I have been getting heavy fruit and nut production with few problems due to the lack of maintenance. I will just keep a trail mowed enough for me to get to what I want to eat myself and leave the rest for the deer and other critters.

If we don't have a late freeze this year - I'm looking at a crazy big crop of everything - including full sized apple trees that were planted 9 - 11 years ago that had their first crops last year and loaded with blooms this year. And pears are going to be out of this world.
 
Done grafting and burning down half my woods . Now will worry about cold temps until Memorial Day lol. I haven't fertilized ever. But I did have the fire dept at my place as I was burning my FB limbs and the fire got away and started burning leaves and some trees. About 30 guys showed up and 2 huge firettrucks They trucks couldn't get to the fire so they used a pickup with water tank and quad and all the guys had rakes and water bladder sprayers. I felt like such a jerk lol. Sending a nice donation to the fire dept lol

Good job! :)
 
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My buckwheat, sorghum, and clover are doing well.

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Both plots are looking good, Rodger. The BW / sorghum patch is jumping !!
 
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Roger - What kind of clover do you have planted ??
 
I planted pennington trio in this plot

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This fall I'm planning on over seeding with straight durana clover. We had some hard rains that washed out some of my seed.

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