Recent content by JSanders

Very loud and frequent in south Alabama this past weekend at night, and it was late.

We took my Great Aunt's old home which had been abandoned and trashed for ten years and have fixed it up. The best part is the 72'x84' steel truss barn. I walled up one front corner of the barn for a lock up of equipment and tools, the other front corner installed a counter and sink, and winches...

What you've described, absolutely yes. It's actually recommended to pull up the tubes, remove dead leaves piled up which can harbor rodents over the winter.

Thank you all for the comments. No, I don't need added work, got enough of that as it is. Maybe, at best, I'll get some of the smaller 1' seedlings I find and see what happens. They won't have the tap root that deep yet. I'll still be buying some trees off WG and Nativ anyway.

Last weekend while out bush hogging some pasture edges and trails, my eye kept noticing little oaks 2-3' tall along the way. Last year I planted 100+ hardwoods, pears and crabapples in areas where some diversity is needed. So anyway, I have an abundance of various small sapling oaks. So my...

And a partial shot of the burned area. You can see under the tire tracks where the fire smoldered across the path from the burn pile on the left to the where it got out of hand on the right.

About three weeks ago, I let a burn pile get out of hand. I had a pretty good size pile of trash trees (chinese tallow and chinaberry) we'd cut over the previous month, set it to burn and in short, it got away from the burn pile by burning dead grass under the green growth of grass. Anyways...