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Update: this was kind of a failure but with one exception..grafted 5 different kinds of fruiting cherry scion that I bought online to my weeping cherry back in April…grafted 3 to weeping branches and 2 to some about suckers 5’ up the trunk…got a 20% success rate (1 of the weeping ones...

I tell people I’m an amateur farmer because growing stuff for deer and turkey is a lot easier than other livestock haha

Well I already have a fair bit of fawn cover nearby in about an acre and a half field that I burned last year (that required a call to the FD) that is about 5’ tall with some old hay and some native stuff. I just don’t have super handy access to a mower and want to do all the plots in one...

Pre-heat wave update..crimson has come and gone hoping to have tons of reseeding when I mow it later this summer..lots of rye and clover is really thick..debating just letting it go without mowing but would like to get some brassicas in it for the fall

Might have several fawns it’s feeding? I had a doe near my house (Northern PA) that looked pretty skinny like that but she had twins that she was trying to keep fed. She ended up getting fatter as the fawns began eating regular forage and the summer went on. I think this happens more so with...

Any tips on how to get a Kerr to look like that? Like fertilizing/spraying schedule..every guy on here probably had a major case of tree envy..(I know I do)…

Same experience here…did a field once of just crimson that was extremely thick and pretty the year it was planted then just sparse little “islands” of crimson the next year…

There musta been some in k e of the old mixes I planted. I have never gotten it to grow or reseed consistently as part of a mix.

Spring update..clover has come back with a vengeance with a few surprises: some crimson clover popping up in spots and some alfalfa even sprouting! Was a bit surprised more WR didn’t make it but this is by far my best plot…

You guys are all a bad influence..but I’m not buying 4 more trees this year..I would probably find myself single if I did so…

I know this isn’t shipping related, but check out this little Death Wish popping out blossoms like a champ..pretty excited for this one moving forward, even if those pretty little flowers will all get pinched off this year…

At my house it’s fruit tree planting maintenance and food plot checking. We love to take the kids and walk “up top” to the 3 acre field where most of the action happens. I’ve got my almost 3 year old “checking” the newly planted fruit trees for leaves/buds now. Also starting working on clearing...

I grafted 3 different varieties of pear onto a callery pear in my front yard today (Seckel, Korean Giant and a late dropping pear from my friends yard). Grafted 2 Scion of each onto the same limb so I could remember what each one was (all but the friends had at least one tag). Hoping to get a...

We’re not jealous..really we aren’t…

Guessing I still have to wait a while as the buds are just getting ready to pop on the callery pears near me…