Recent content by KY wild

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...

I bet you get a pear here and there to at least taste them

Not for sure, I put in my email and they send me a notice when one is scheduled. More hit and miss, but good shows

I join or at least listen to this podcast from University of Maryland about habitat improvement which they send out often. Here is the link to get an email about future podcast, this week it is about Restoring Bobwhite. Worth a look https://www.wildlife.umd.edu/

I agree. Super buck but condensed area of mass makes it not jump out as 200 inches. Wow true giant though

That is very mature of you Native but I can complain because it hurts my feelings, so ^%$%^&$+=#%#%@**#?@-$%$^&U*&+I^I&**%^$%=/@(*@!!@$#*(*

I put up a wood duck box about 20 yards from a man made water hole/small pond and a screech owl nested in it each year for the last decade. The 2nd year house was up I was standing on my 4 wheeler to clean box and owl flew out in my face and scared the crap out of me and I lost my balance and...

Spent most of the day getting materials together to build a shooting house tomorrow.