Recent content by granitepants

I'm leaning toward just letting the foxtail grow. I'd love to have more ragweed or goldenrod but I think this is the best I can do for now with limited time and budget. If I can swing it, I'll burn or mow this Spring. Still surprised how thick and tall it grew in just one season and wondering...

I added a five acre field in 2023 which for years had been beans or corn. The last row crop on it was corn in 2022. I had no time to work it last year but the field erupted in thick, tall Chinese foxtail (think so anyway). 6'-7' tall and very thick. Birds love it--perhaps not turkey though. Deer...

I've got two semi-standard Gala and one Northland Crab coming mid April for the critters in the woods and six dwarf Honeycrisp and a couple Gala for the critters in our backyard--our apple munching sons. Can't wait to see how they do!

Hi folks, I'll be self-logging a couple acres of a very small red pine plantation, looking for ideas concerning the leftover treetops. I won't leave them where they fall as I'm planning on getting some food plots going. Thinking of delimbing them and then habitat piles of some sort for smaller...