Recent content by SwampCat

First hog I have killed on my place in maybe eight months. They have been no shows up until the last month. Couldnt get a shot at the others as the grass in the food plot is too tall to see them running off

I bet that aint that hawks first time

I have 3/4” sockets up to 2.5”, 36” crescent, and half inch battery impact driver so far has taken care of my needs

I have not had a fireblight problem until this year. I have had entire apple and peach crop destroyed by brown rot. I have been keeping up with my spraying - but with 21 inches of rain in 14 weeks, it is hard to keep up. Even with spraying, it already looks like the plums have been lost to...

Make sure you have a good screen on fireplace, will look like a dozen sparklers

I think the south is problematic for fruit trees. It is hot and humid. Neither of which is a benefit for fruit production. I dont care if a deer ever tastes a piece of fruit off my trees - they already have enough to eat. I would like to eat some produce off my own trees, however.

My peach trees are very prone to brown spot - or rot. It is wet and humid here. Guaranteed not to raise a single peach without a regular spray cycle.

Down here in the wet, hot, humid south, a regular spray cycle is almost required. I have noticed after I spray, the herbicide collects on the tips of the leaves and remains for some time. Is the herbicide burning the tips of these leaves. Liberty apple.

I give my trees about 8 gallons of water each week during summer - except for the older like ten yr old I give twice that - about 15 gallons. I have had some die doing that. Other than fig, I dont have winter kill - I have summer kill, though

My trees are on top the hill above the bottoms. At least half the summers, if I dont water some will die. I dont plant a tree anymore that I cant reach with a hose. I have run water in a 1” black pipe a quarter mile to my trees. Every tree I have ever planted I cant water is dead. Some made it...

My bucks been together for awhile. Here, the biggest buck in the woods will join a bachelor group.

I would if I could. This is one of several foodplots that look like this. You can see part of a box stand behind that big willow center of picture.

I am sick of the rain. I have several food plots I used to spring plant in the bottoms. Havent been able to do that in six or seven years. Can barely walk down there now in the spring without knee high rubber boots. Crazy how the rain patterns here have changed. Have had 18” in last three...

I have two different japanese persimmons. They come out much earlier than our native persimmons. My japanese have full leaves and are about to bloom right now and the american are about half leaved out now. The japanese are sure subject to vegetation freezing here, but they seem to come back ok

I agree. I worked for a lot of years and never starved to death because I passed a turkey. I turkey hunt for the show - not the meat. A turkey is meant to be called up and put on a show, not to be sniped at 60 or 70 yards - in my opinion, of course😉