Recent content by KY wild

I watered my 25 apple grafts I planted in the field last November from pots. This is the driest April I can remember in my life. Farmers planting corn in the area looks like a dust storm. Probably only 10% of me deer vetch came up that I planted three weeks ago.

I agree they are not trying to stop our military, that has fortified ships and defense weapons. All they have to do is to blow up or simply put a hole in a oil tanker and straight is closed. Many types of weapons from every direction could cause an oil tanker to fail. I see Iran being...

We are finding 3 or 4 in places we usually find 25 to a 100. We are blaming it on the lack of moisture, very dry for this time of the year.

I have grafted apple trees the last few years with great success and great fun by using advice from this forum. This year I decided to graft 20 pears and 30 apple trees, 48 out of 50 grafts took and has several leaves and growth. I put 10 grafts in each 5 gallon bucket, in potting soil and...

Great info Sandbur

I have only watered my young tree to keep them alive, and if I think they will make it another week without water then I don't water. Water work for me has always been to keep alive. I think it is an interesting question....... What If you never allowed your moisture level to drop below a...

I have had terrible luck the last few years trying to plant fall food plots, every year it seems we do not get moisture until mid October to November, too late to help with hunting. So changing a couple of plots to warm season plots. Planted 2 acres today in deer vetch and Alyce clover, first...

Nice Roots! Those are much much better roots than the ones I buy to graft, but I get pretty high percentage to take so maybe OK with poor roots. What rootstock are those and where did you get them if you don't mind be asking?

NO, but what I have done to speed up the process..... Grab an old container like an empty ice cream bucket or cool whip bowl and put on meat scale and fill with clover until it is a pound then mark a ring with a permanent marker around the height, inside and out. Then I take the conainer with...

Five feet Tree Tubes that need assembly is my go to tube. I try to catch 1/2 to 3/4 pvc pipe on sale at Menards and cut a 10 footer in two pieces ( bulk discount, cheaper if you buy more). I like because last forever and allows the trees to sway in the wind, building strngth

Today...... *kiilled coon in yard trap for stealing bird seed every night for 2 weeks *checked on loggers finishing up and installing water diversions on roads * treated bees for mites *watered grafts in 5 gallon buckets and pulled leaves below grafts * WATCHED A COVEY OF QUAIL CROSS THE ROAD...

nice hunting hut

What is it about miracle grow potting soil which makes it a poor choice?

I agree we don't have a labor problem in agriculture, that was part of my point along with farming will work itself out in a free market like everything else. My real point was the next paragraph we don't need to protect the farmer or the workers but we better protect the farmland because we may...

I agree with most of the premises above but would offer a different take. I do not think it is necessary to subsidize farmers because we are not even near running out of food in America, in fact most of what we are talking about is farmers making less income due to other country food needs. I...