Recent content by farmlegend

If it’s the same machine, I’m sticking with the OG Great Plains. Or the Land Pride, whichever dealer makes me the best deal.

Giving serious consideration to buying a pull behind no till drill(will likely go with GP or LP brands). Before I roll up my sleeves to do some exciting line-by-line research, I thought I'd throw this out there to see if anyone has trod this ground before. I'm sure I could ask my local...

Reed canary grass? Tough stuff. IME, on most sites that are dominated by RCG, nothing you can plant can compete with it. Its rhizomes and seeds go clear down to bedrock. Here's what I've seen guys I know personally have success with - spray your RCG with clethodim/crop oil. Hit it when it...

A critical vector to take into consideration with tree/shrub/foodplot plantings is soil type. Any summary planning recommendations are incomplete without addressing it. Having played around with this stuff for nearly 30 years, I have spent a long time playing whack-a-mole before figuring out...

Collecting reddit downvotes is sort of hobby for me. Got banned from r/energy on my very first comment there, where I suggested there was such a thing as a marketplace.

Three cylinder Kubota diesel. Top speed 25mph, pulls like a tractor. A/C for summertime chores. Wonderful vehicle.

Damn thing has a radio but it's useless when that diesel is banging. It is pretty awesome when I dump a doe in late December and have to retrieve it from the far end of the farm on a single-digit temperature morning, wearing only a sweatshirt. 🤣

Though we had a somewhat cold winter, we had relatively little snow. Never got an opportunity to fire up the RTV1100C with the plow package. Performed magnificently in previous winters.

Plum loves my dirt. Never planted it, but it spreads prolifically. Among the first thing to bloom in the spring. This pic taken 4/26.

Yessir, blackberry is one invading shrub I have no problem with persisting in my prairie. On the other hand, MF Rose is the great satan.

FWIW, fall burns are far more effective at controlling woody vegetation than spring burns. I've only burned in the spring, and it didn't kill the trees.

In addition to alsike, balansa is also pretty tolerant of wet dirt. I've personally found that plain old medium red doesn't do too badly in wet dirt also. Not as well as alsike, but not bad, either.

Japanese millet saved my ass last year. It performed magnificently. Black oil sunflower, grazing corn, flax, kale, lespedeza, mung beans, radishes, safflower, kale, sunn hemp and buckwheat all failed miserably. Alsike, most whites, and medium red clovers also do well. Buckwheat is generally...

Flax was among the 18 seeds drilled into it last year, and none of it showed up. Flax is rated as “poor” by Greencover in wet soils.

A few pics of this spot and surroundings.