Recent content by nwmn

I've had great luck with glufosinate so far(knock on wood). I went ahead and sprayed the yellow foxtail with clethodim yesterday, as it has been choking out my milkweed colonies. I also mixed in milestone after spraying grasses and covered my waterhemp areas good. Hoping they curl up by the...

Lol, no worries. All these weeds seem to inhabit the same areas.

Smart weed is definitely in there as well, but the main foes for me is waterhemp and yellow foxtail. I'm so tired of battling weeds. I've got cost share assistance to manage common tansy as it's considered invasive in our county. I had to spray beautiful areas of milkweed and parts of my...

So I live on the river and have this 2 acre area that was all reed canary grass and canadian thistle last year. I sprayed milestone on the thistle patches and gly on the reed canary. Success. This spring no reed canary or thistle was anywhere. I winter sowed native species and this spring...

I love this thread, even more so now that I am planning to convert years of fescue and brome back into a native landscape. I'm in nw mn with harsh winters, and specifically this year there was a lot of winterkill due to food availability. Are there any species that give sustenance to deer...

Realistically, if I can outfit a spool for my lay flat hose, I could make life much easier. I want to go about 450' in each direction in a perfect worled with the main, then lateral lines off those every 100 feet or so. I would have valves to control zones so I could supply big guns, or have...

This is good info to keep in mind. So much math goes into flow and all that, that I never considered. Worst case scenario this year is that I continue doing what I've been doing and not just jumping into something that could potentially fail miserably. It can move lots of water 650' and...

I'm not very good with these things lol. Would the pressure at the sprinkler be the same if i reduce it down to 1.5" on the lateral lines? I was thinking it would operate similarly to a water heater where a line feeds the heater, then the outlet is the same size as the inlet. As long as the...

So I purchased a 3" high pressure pump 2 years ago to help irrigate my pumpkins using a large sprinkler. I have the opportunity this fall to supply a local grocery chain with pumpkins for Halloween and want to utilize this pump and build an irrigation system that can double to water trees I...

Had to stop reading for a second. I can't imagine the emotions when hearing that news. I'm a volunteer firefighter and respond to MVA's, and that's a huge fear of mine. So happy to hear things are on the up. Hang in there dad, make sure you take care of yourself throughout this nightmare.

While this is bill is being introduced, why not introduce APR in areas where they need to manage deer numbers? People not being allowed to shoot a fork buck may force them into shooting a doe. If this is an attempt to reduce deer numbers, the only way to effectively do that is nudge people...

You got it. I don't come here as much as I used to, but I'm still out there trying to learn and will share and try and add value here when I can. I never once thought I'd spend so much time researching flowers. I also never thought in a milllion years I'd be ooing and awing over flowers I see...

I've done a lot of research into individual seed that is native to my area, and I sourced out the cheapest prices per seed amongst about 5-6 places. I can send you my file if you'd like. It's composed for NW MN, but could provide some value. It's in excel and has bloom color, bloom period...

I think with EQIP you can enroll the day you close. CSP and CRP have an ownership minimum. Better to check with local NRCS than to take my word. What part of N MO? I've been window shopping(dreaming) of that are for over 5 years now. When I can get out of hellish winters in 19 years I'd...

I've got a 275 gallon square chemical tank and would like to use it for spraying in the woods to combat cool season grasses this spring. I would need it to be boomless and controlled from the cab. I don't know how to draw up schematics, or how a proper system is set up, but I'm willing to...