Recent content by Derek Reese 29

Finished up my fruit tree pruning and cut some more scion...couple dozen trees in a few days..can't wait till my kiddos can help, though about half of the trees are getting big enough (12+') a ladder is gonna be necessary next year...for now I didn't really do a great job on the higher scaffolds...

with that forecast might only have 1 shot to get seed down on top of the snow...i've also had great luck broadcasting ahead of a couple inches...i feel like the weight of the snow then the subsequent melting also helps direct the small seed down into the nooks of the soil

definitely do the window screen and also a weed mat around the trunk. I also put limestone screening on top of the weed mad so the rodents wont burrow to the roots. If you're looking for bigger trees that will produce sooner, Blue Hill and Whitetail Crabs both have crabs still in stock. You will...

so much for a long frost-seeding window...might try to get some done on this plot before the snow early next week...

Droptine, Golden Hornet and Winter Gold from Whitetail Crabs and Roadkill from Blue Hill all had crabs up until a week or so ago for me. All fast-growing, early age producers, and the fruit just hangs. Every time there’s a stiff breeze the tracks appear…

working on the bedding with brush piles and doing some TSI in my little 3 acre patch of woods...(mostly just cutting down/spraying invasive honeysuckle and trying to free up some oaks...) and only hunting with the right wind (thankfully I can hunt on any North wind and any West wind) plus good...

love your "blah blah" quote...i have a kid that I mentor and when he was about 15 he missed 2 opportunities at 2 different bucks inside 20 yards on the SAME SIT on the archery opener one year because he was sitting below me in a ladder stand looking at his phone...after the second buck darted...

I took a college course near Traverse City after the spring semester one year. When we got there the professor running the class joked that we would all be issued rifles and required to shoot 3 deer while we were there. I knew he was joking as it was May, but some of my more urban-type...

definitely want the best plots i can get for sure! ...im in a weird spot at my house and in laws where both are surrounded by good Ag (meaning corn, beans, alfalfa, not just hay though there is a fair amount of that)..i know i cant compete with acres of corn/beans/Winter wheat, etc... BUT.. can...

Finally got around to beginning pruning (feels a little late but it's been a really cold winter). Only got to my pears (8) but figured I would start there as they usually pop alot earlier than the crabs/apples. Was able to collect some scion, which is good because I am doing a ton of pear...

which one would i use? the home garden one of the Ag one?

i kinda put the cart ahead of the horse, planting for a couple years before soil testing...

good call on the soil tests..thinking i am just gonna add some lime even before the test results come back as I am sure it will be needed... when i plant the spring oats will probably just have my FIL run over it with his good sized kioti then spread the small clover on top..I need to use...

I would say that’s one interpretation….two deer in the same 30 acre cornfield raise the risk factor also..just a pinch above 0…but with food plots being designed to shoot into and across with a bow that smaller area in and of itself would lend itself to more risk..

I think we are all ready for spring and all spending way too much time on the computer …I would say if Baiting year round there are only ethical and disease considerations but if only putting out corn to hunt over in season I’ve heard of negative effects on the deer’s nutrition if it’s used...