Recent content by Belo

thanks, never heard of it. that's not cheap!

I'm guessing there is another variable too, in that guys that spend all the money and time to plot are also more dedicated to hunting and generally that means passing smaller deer, they're more into understanding heard dynamics so they know when and when not to shoot doe. I don't disagree that...

My kunz rough cut mower will mow at a max height of 8". I've found 2 or 3 times a year has done me well. I also do a max arrest spray. As others have said, I think mowing early enough before competitive weeds seed out is more crucial than anything else.

Hey man some of us on here don't need to see these pics and were happy with our plots until we saw these pics! haha great work!

I took a half assed attempt at pumpkins this year. Finding the weeding to be a pain in the ass because of these viny sprawling things grow. Any tips or suggestions? Right now I'm just kind of weed wacking around the 20 or so plants I have in about a 1/4 acre.

Respectfully, the farmer growing the soy or corn is the one using the chemicals. I don't know about you, but 20 gallons of roundup to kill the grass and then some fert in the ground is all I do with my 2 acres of plots. They grow, they will never make the cover of a magazine, but the deer eat...

Depends on how you're applying too. A boom to the ground is pretty low risk once or twice a year. A wand is where I'd be a little more diligent.

Out of curiosity, what volume of trees are we talking and what else besides apples? There's for sure a way to limit spray and some more organic style sprays, but stuff like peach leaf curl can only be solved by copper...

I have a 1.5 acre clover plot and about an acre or so of fall plots on my place. I also have over 200 fruit trees and while I don't love using chemicals either, I think we should also understand that what we plotters and small property folks do use is not even a drop in the bucket of what is...

I may have misquoted too. I think deer like pears over anything for sure. I was referring to peaches. Deer generally don't eat them on my place, but they do like to kill a tree by rubbing it.

It's the only fruit the deer don't seem to go after, but man do they love to rub a nice peach tree.

Exactly my point, and yet each has donated billions. So that's why I use them as a counter to "Ted is the man for conservation". Just because he's done some good with his wealth, doesn't mean he does all good. I don't dislike the guy or believe he has hurt hunting. But he's not the poster child...

2 years ago we had a late frost and I lost the majority of my peaches on almost 200 trees. One tree though was thriving but about 3 days away from ready to be picked. I rolled up one day excited to fill some baskets and those f'n coons stripped it clean.

Everytime I think about making a new path or utv trail/cutover etc I remind myself the additional work to clear fallen ash, vines, branches leaning over and the endless upon endless super briars that grow at least a foot a day that will be needed to maintain it haha

I was reading some social media comments to the governor's announcement of this (I know, I should know better). The amount of folks worried they'll now be gunned down going for a hike was pretty hilarious. Like what do you think happens in all 49 other states? We just murder dog walkers left and...