Habitat out loud

[Foggy47]

How did the gun deer season go at the stabbin' cabin?

I figure he is low on solar power....because he has not posted much for a few days now. (smile)

 

[SD51555]

I figure he is low on solar power....because he has not posted much for a few days now. (smile)

I’ve had the crud since day before gun opener. First time ever, every single guy had antlers in front of them. All chose not to shoot. I did my job. I shouldn’t have shown them the night bucks.


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[Bowsnbucks]

I’ve had the crud since day before gun opener. First time ever, every single guy had antlers in front of them. All chose not to shoot. I did my job. I shouldn’t have shown them the night bucks.


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Hope you're feeling better, SD. No fun being down.

If I can ask - what's the skinny on that garlic you plant? Where do you order it from, and what's the story on the rotted wood / sawdust / hemp straw for mulch? Does garlic require a certain bedding soil mix? Is your garlic variety just bigger? The crap garlic from China that's in stores is a waste.

Hot "Toddy" for the creeping crud. Couple whole slices of orange and lemon in a pan of sangria, add a couple shots of your favorite whiskey / brandy, add a pat of real butter, teaspoon of honey. Heat on stove until hot enough that you can barely drink it without burning your mouth. Down it, crawl into bed to sweat it out. Buddy mixed this for me once and it worked. Felt much better the next day. My regular doc even used this himself - and recommended it to me too.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

I’ve had the crud since day before gun opener. First time ever, every single guy had antlers in front of them. All chose not to shoot. I did my job. I shouldn’t have shown them the night bucks.


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That sounds like a great season if everyone had an opportunity at a buck. That's pretty rare in the north country.

If you are getting good pics of night time bucks, you just need a little luck to have a local doe come into heat to draw one of the big bucks past you. How was the hunting pressure in your area compared to other years?

 

[SD51555]

Hope you're feeling better, SD. No fun being down.

If I can ask - what's the skinny on that garlic you plant? Where do you order it from, and what's the story on the rotted wood / sawdust / hemp straw for mulch? Does garlic require a certain bedding soil mix? Is your garlic variety just bigger? The crap garlic from China that's in stores is a waste.

Hot "Toddy" for the creeping crud. Couple whole slices of orange and lemon in a pan of sangria, add a couple shots of your favorite whiskey / brandy, add a pat of real butter, teaspoon of honey. Heat on stove until hot enough that you can barely drink it without burning your mouth. Down it, crawl into bed to sweat it out. Buddy mixed this for me once and it worked. Felt much better the next day. My regular doc even used this himself - and recommended it to me too.

Garlic

It’s called Music garlic. Nothing really special about it except two things:

1. It grows here.

2. The cloves are enormous. Makes using it very quick and easy vs those fingernail sized cloves on Chinese prison camp human sewage garlic.

I had no special soil amendments. I do seek to get 4” of mulch blanket over it to keep it protected in winter. I use wood chips because that’s what I can get in bulk. I used hemp straw too because it intrigued me, and would be tighter than coarse wood chips.

I will tell you this much. The hemp straw didn’t blow away, and it really sucks up the moisture. There’s water in the straw vs water being under the straw with all other mulches.


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[SD51555]

I bought the garlic from a hippy downtown with a health food coop type shop. $20/lb.


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[SD51555]

I think the outstanding flavor comes from just being grown in real soil that ain’t farmed out and dead, and I run heavy amounts of sulfate (from gypsum) in my beds.


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[Bowsnbucks]

The cloves are enormous. Makes using it very quick and easy vs those fingernail sized cloves on Chinese prison camp human sewage garlic.

That about says it!!! ^ ^ ^ ^

 

[SD51555]

The ROD roadshow is back in business. Days like this make me think the battle has turned in my favor. I’ll keep going, just might change tactics.

My upgraded-to-super native ROD cage.

My best brushpile ROD. Just chucked a pile of ash logs and tops in there from a plot expansion. The ROD wasn’t even there when I made the pile.

My other super cage. Those stems were 12” tall when I built it this spring. After this growing season, they’re touching 5’.

These are growing amongst a stand of arrowood viburnum. About every 3rd year I whack the piss out of the AVB to get it produce again. The dogwood likes it too.

Another caged natural a few feet away from the last one.

One from a cut I did in 2016. The initial brush pile is long gone, and the ROD endures. I’ve been back in here 2-3 times to knock back the undesirable regrowth. It’s a quick job when you get after it right away.

A complete wild card specimen. I whacked down the better part of an acre here in 2021. I made a real mess and had to go back and cut in trails. Lots of ROD booming in this area now.

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[SD51555]

I didn’t plant any of those.


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[SD51555]

I started hand clearing land for a new plot this past weekend.

All the brush and tops were sized and cleanly stacked in prep for being buried next summer.

Saved all good firewood. I’ve got about 15 piles like this around the property. This one is birch. Did u know when it’s 7 degrees, you can split live birch and ash with ease?

Big logs were segmented into 15-20’ lengths, and also delimbed to enable smooth burial and no bones sticking up out of the ground.

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[Ben.MN/WI]

Looks like a lot of work. Where are you going to pull the dirt from that will cover the piles of logs?

I agree that splitting wood is easiest when it is extremely cold outside. Except elm, elm sucks regardless of the temperature.

 

[SD51555]

Looks like a lot of work. Where are you going to pull the dirt from that will cover the piles of logs?

I agree that splitting wood is easiest when it is extremely cold outside. Except elm, elm sucks regardless of the temperature.

I'm gonna push the topsoil off to the side, and then peel open about 12-18" of subsoil and lay in about 12-18" of brush or logs, cover it back up with subsoil, and then push the topsoil back on at the end.

 

[Foggy47]

I'm gonna push the topsoil off to the side, and then peel open about 12-18" of subsoil and lay in about 12-18" of brush or logs, cover it back up with subsoil, and then push the topsoil back on at the end.

You are in need of a tractor / loader and a box blade.......AND a flail mower. (the list grows...lol)

 

[SD51555]

You are in need of a tractor / loader and a box blade.......AND a flail mower. (the list grows...lol)

I need a Cat 313 for a dry month, with the push blade.

 

[Foggy47]

Those flail mowers that go on the front of a Bobcat are awesome. Maybe that is what you need. You like to do some excavating. They do rent those.....might be a good choice for you.

 

[SD51555]

Those flail mowers that go on the front of a Bobcat are awesome. Maybe that is what you need. You like to do some excavating. They do rent those.....might be a good choice for you.

I plan to get the bobcat E50 for a week over July 4th next summer. This project could very well end the 4 year drought.

 

[SD51555]

I can tell it's winter already. I'm starting to slowly lose my grip on reality thinking about all the stuff I want to do after winter is over.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I'm gonna push the topsoil off to the side, and then peel open about 12-18" of subsoil and lay in about 12-18" of brush or logs, cover it back up with subsoil, and then push the topsoil back on at the end.

Just a question SD - why are you burying the brush? Brush piles make great habitat for birds to poop out seeds & start new stuff growing, plus brush can make FREE protection for any seedlings that may sprout on their own. We used brush piles to great effect here after several logging projects. Deer feasted on the limbs & twigs, and even used the brush for bedding backdrops. If I could flip a switch and move your brush piles to our place - - - I'd flip that switch!!!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I can tell it's winter already. I'm starting to slowly lose my grip on reality thinking about all the stuff I want to do after winter is over.

Doing the same here, SD!!! I'm already looking at seed catalogs, nurseries for seedlings, trees, etc. The itch we can't scratch --------- yet.