Catscratch House and Habitat build
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Catscratch
5 year old buck +
I hope it grows into a huge non-typical!
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Put a cage in the milo. Curious to see if there's a difference after heads start. They're already hammering the sunflowers. Dig deep enough and you can find pumpkins blooming.
I like to experiment with natives. A little soil showing and a strong crop of ragweed should make a quail or 2 happy.
I like to experiment with natives. A little soil showing and a strong crop of ragweed should make a quail or 2 happy.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Be curious to see if your pumpkins get pollinated if they are that well hidden.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
I'll venture it's a yes. Bugs can find a single BB sized hole in 18 screen doors and windows to get into my house... surely they can find some pumpkin blooms in the bottom of a milo field.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
I was reading some stuff on commercial pumpkin growing, and one article said that overly fertilized vines make it difficult for pollinators to find flowers. That was the thinking behind my comment.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
I was making a joke with my last post. Honestly first I've heard of suck a thing. Those blooms are way the heck down there. Will be interesting to pay attention to.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
I got your joke, LOL. I have just been researching a bit on the commercial pumpkin aspect and it was brought up in stuff that over feeding Nitrogen leads to a lot of vine growth and it has been found to decrease pollination. Pumpkins apparently due like a good shot of N, but over use can be an issue.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
I didn't see the wasp nest until it was to late. I swell up like crazy! Stepped into the house and said "Hon, I'm a mess... would you bring me some wasp spray and more beers", she said "plural?". I said "sure". She said "only if I can watch!".
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Sunflowers are just starting to bloom, and the pumpkins have vined their way to the top. Not sure what that'll look like if they make fruit.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
I hate wasps and there has been an overabundance of the SOBs the last couple of Summers.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Extended the dock. The swimming end is right on the edge of the moss line. Nobody wants to swim in weeds. Used a gate for the frame. Kind of redneck but it's very light and ridged. Will throw some wood or aluminum on it for a platform.
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Catscratch
5 year old buck +
We let the barn swallows nest on our house the last 2yrs. They've completely ran out the wasps that like to nest under the deck and eaves. This nest was in a shed though.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Picked up a clearance mix at Walmart. Would have rather went just straight radishes, but that would have required another hour of driving. Hope it grows, no big deal if not.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Got a 10 inch gong bolted on to a post I put in over the winter.
We mostly shoot off the deck. 100m, 130m, and 350m for these targets.
We mostly shoot off the deck. 100m, 130m, and 350m for these targets.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
That disc makes a clean seed bed, should be good. Did you disc the seed in or broadcast after discing?
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Disc, broadcast, shallow disc.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Hopefully didnt cover the small seeds too deep, I've had good luck tilling, broadcasting, then cultipacking...but that's normally all the same size seed.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
I thought of that, but minutes are in short supply and I'm not to worried if the plot doesn’t make it.
