Terrific_tom
5 year old buck +
Very nice.
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Made it back up to our place on 8/29/14 after a couple weeks away. July was very dry and my initial brassica plot was pretty much a total bust. August was generous with the rainfall and has helped our field fill in nicely. I've got a few apples this year on Freedom, Sweet 16, Wolf River, Liberty and Dolgo.
Here's a 4th leaf Freedom on EMLA7. I think I counted about two dozen apples. Most of any tree I have.
This Wolf River dwarf has half a dozen.
Dolgo B118 has 4.
Ate the Dolgos. Pretty tart w/ a little sweetness.
Here's a 4th leaf Freedom on EMLA7. I think I counted about two dozen apples. Most of any tree I have.
This Wolf River dwarf has half a dozen.
Dolgo B118 has 4.
Ate the Dolgos. Pretty tart w/ a little sweetness.
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badgerfowl
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Some CAR on this Sweet 16.
Clover amongst the apples looks good after it was mowed on August 10.
Planted some radishes, clover, and WR in between my other rows of apples. Some stuff survived the dry July and others I planted in late July/early August and timely rains have helped. Turkeys ate all the WR.
Clover amongst the apples looks good after it was mowed on August 10.
Planted some radishes, clover, and WR in between my other rows of apples. Some stuff survived the dry July and others I planted in late July/early August and timely rains have helped. Turkeys ate all the WR.
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badgerfowl
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More among the apples. I threw some ShotPlot seed out end of July and Honey Hole mid August so there's probably some turnips/rape among the survivors.
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badgerfowl
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Our 5 acre field was planted end of July with WW, clover, and GHR. A small amount of PTT, DER, and T-Raptor also. It's looking pretty good after a month. I just wish I would have spread the brassicas a little thinner.
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A few more...
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Apples & Dolgo look real good. Nice plots of greens too. Should have plenty of eats for the critters this fall/winter. That slough from a few posts back looks good. Do any trapping along the slough for coons or rats? Those kind of waterways are usually wildlife magnets.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
You have everything looking like a showplace. Very nice work, and the CAR on that apple don't look very bad to me.
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badgerfowl
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Don't do any trapping. We had a guy try it probably 15-20 years ago. Not sure if he had any luck. I saw a mink down there a few weeks ago. Definitely a wide variety of game.
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Yea I think it just started showing up this past month, or at least how it looks like in the pics. I'm not concerned with it. Most of my trees, even the DR ones are/were showing signs of some kind of stress/disease this year. Except for July, we've had very good rainfalls.
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badgerfowl
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Thanks! Looks like we missed the big rains last night/this morning, which probably isn't worst thing. Did you guys get any of those?
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badgerfowl
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Thanks! It's still a work in progress and I'm adding more trees next year.
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badgerfowl
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Stopped by our place to check things out and pull the camera cards. Food plots are looking good.
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badgerfowl
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Couple more brassica pics.
Two clover plots in the woods. Expanding both next spring.
Two clover plots in the woods. Expanding both next spring.
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badgerfowl
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And a couple nice surprises on the cameras. Never see ones like this til late October usually. Plenty of the typical spikes as well. Sat on our field Saturday night from 5pm to close. Saw 12 out there for over an hour.
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badgerfowl
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Managed a few fish Saturday morning.
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badgerfowl
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We got lucky with plentiful august rains! Good timing as I did more plot stuff this year than any other.
