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I need to do some of that next summer. HAD a little 2 year old peach with about 30 peaches in it..the one morning there were none..have also seen squirrels eating pears that are months from being ripe right out of the tree…

Took my little guy and a few cousins to my great uncle’s pond today. Couple casts with a whopper plopper on my little guy’s 2’ rod and there was a big splash. He hauled back and fought what I thought was just a real big bass to the bank. Turns out it was 2 bass on the same lure on the same cast...

This could be titled “A Food Plotter’s Haiku”

I think they will be implementing it this fall as it goes into effect on September 7. Pretty excited about this one..my brother has been keeping an eye on this for a long time (even joining some anti-Sunday hunting Facebook groups to troll them) and said the first comment on the group said...

Good call on that one! Should I keep some of them as like “nurse” branches or do you think it’s ok to cut them all off once I have the grafts done? I’m totally ok with cutting them all just don’t want to kill the tree.

Thankfully we killed the poison ivy but the vine was about as big around as my wrist, so it definitely harmed the tree. Want to utilize what has to be a huge root system to help get those grafts cranking out.

Here’s another one, a Red Delicious grafted o to an indeterminate mature apple in my front yard, just opened this weekend!

I admit it, I might have a grafting problem. My thought is to cut the Bradford pear (picture 1) and some other indeterminate species of pear (picture 2 and 3) which doesn’t produce well and has been stunted by a monster poison ivy vine) off at about chest level so they start throwing water...

Preach it! And if there is no stirring of emotion or eminent desire to head out in the wilderness there..I would have significant questions.

Great book! Kinda had forgotten that one…

For sure! I even had a teacher in highs school assign us Pat McManus! I about died on the spot.

So there is an off-chance I might be teaching English this fall, so I am putting this thread out there for suggestions for kids who may not have yet learned to love to read. I am an avid reader and have been since my parents smartly put a few copies of Field and Stream and Outdoor Life in my...

Mines the little food plot (3 small plots) and tree plot (almost up to 5 dozen trees) above my house..we tell the kids we are going “up top” and they scurry towards the trail that leads up there

So I did a little grafting this spring back in about mid-April (some were various bought pear scion onto an existing Bradford pear and some were various of my own and bought apples/crabs onto a couple different existing apple trees). These are all at my house so I can (and do) keep a close eye...