Recent content by Lucky_P

Been a while since I've been here. Got into knapping a bit when we lived in MO, 30 years ago. Went to a few knap-ins around the state. If you can find them, D.C. Waldorf's books 'Story In Stone' and 'The Art of Flintknapping' are really nice to have, and the drawings done by David's wife...

I have 'volunteer' mulberry seedlings every year in various flower beds around the house. Somebody, on this board, posted a good tip several years ago... place a wire cage, just like you would to protect trees from buck rub/browsing on a spot of bare dirt, and you're almost assured to have a...

Almost every 'government' program I ever enrolled in cost me more than it paid... I usually had to go back and re-do things correctly 'on my own dime'. Only bright spot was a 10-yr 100-ft wide CRP riparian bufferstrip deal back in 2000; almost a mile long, 7 acres total. At the time, we were a...

I have more 'volunteer' callery seedlings than I could ever get grafted, much less dug and transplanted, but if I need a pear somewhere, I've got something that will suffice, at any time. Granted, I mostly only graft onto established rootstocks, and not ones that I've just procured and planted...

There's a 'Bad Taxidermy' Facebook group that I follow, where folks display 'amazing/interesting', and yes, BAD taxidermy. This one showed up in the feed yesterday, seen in a bar in Wisconsin. Surely, everyone on here is familiar with it, but if not, here ya go.

I was gonna suggest a Herd. Bought one of those POS Moultries many years ago. Maybe they're OK for foodplotters who don't care how much extra seed they put out, but for a cattle farmer, the inability to ever get it 'calibrated' to put out the correct amount of $8/lb clover seed made it a...

We have one... better for us than an ATV... but for utility purposes, the little 4WD RHD Japanese minitruck (ours was a Mitsubishi) we used to have was a whole lot better.

Local farmer here got the contract to re-seed roadside cuts when the state built a bypass around town. He had one of those straw grinder/blower outfits. He'd cut old, wornout, unfertilized hay fields overgrown with broomsedge, bale it, and then blow it over the bare ground he'd seeded with...

I'm in Christian Co. KY. Have not traveled the state extensively, but I've never seen a SCO growing anywhere around here... only one I 'know' is (was) growing at the UK Livestock Diagnostic Lab in Lexington. AL State Champion SCO grew on the farm I grew up on, in Lee Co., so I know SCO when I...

Genetic testing has revealed that the larger-fruiting Aronia selections, like Viking, Nero, McKenzie are actually Sorbaronia X - hybrids of Sorbus (European mountain ash) and Aronia. I've got a single seedling selection of A.melanocarpa, from OIKOS Tree Crops, purchased 10 years or more ago. I...

Nuttall & Shumard on water oak is worth a try. Q.nigra was the predominant oak on the farm back home in east AL, but I never see them here in KY - though I know there are some over around Land Between the Lakes... I have the 'Fire Water' hybrid (Q.nigra x coccinea) that arose from a batch of...

I've not read through this whole thread, so this may have already come up, but.... Nick Botner was mentioned early on... Temperate Orchard Conservancy had Botner's permission to clone his orchard, and they've been working, for several years, on getting them all cloned. You can order scionwood...

I have an open-pollenated seedling of DCOXSouthern live oak (Q.prinoides X Q.virginiana), that is a heavy producer of small 'chinkapin'-like acorns. It's a tree form, so may be following the unknown pollen parent with regard to growth habit. Leaves are typical 'chestnut-leaf' oak type, like...

I've been grafting oaks for 25+ yrs. Almost as easy to do and as successful as apples. Certainly much easier than pecan/hickory/walnut. I've not kept up with time to bearing, but as is the case for grafted selections in other species, I'd anticipate time to bearing to be cut in half or less...

Here... mulberry. If you don't cage them or somehow protect them from deer to allow them to achieve 'tree' status, between constant browsing and bucks beating the hell out of them during the rut, they stay in 'shrub' or bush form. Deer routinely come within 50 ft of the house - at night, I...