Made it to the farm today
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Someday isle
5 year old buck +
Some of my first crop of buckwheat grew almost three feet tall this summer. It had plenty of light and timely rain. My second crop was about 4 inches tall at two weeks without any rain. We’ve had a few showers the last week out there so I’m hoping at four weeks old this weekend it’s at least grown a little. If it’s floweiring like yours and keeping weeds down that’s good enough.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Our BW usually flowers at about 18" to 20". It usually tops out at about 30" tall. When it turns yellowish and has hard seed set, deer don't bother with it here - but the turkeys, grouse and other birds hammer it. Deer eat it from about 6" tall until it starts to turn yellow here. At that point, WR can be seeded into it. We just let our BW decay down for more OM in the soil, and it provides a kind of mulch for the rye.
We aren't experts by any means, but that's what works for us at camp.
We aren't experts by any means, but that's what works for us at camp.
Bill
Administrator
Cmon Bill even I can grow better buckwheat than that
Yea but it actually rains at your place.
Bill
Administrator
I planted 50 American plums as bare root seedlings about 6 years ago. There trowing good fruit this year and root suckering like crazy.
Put the ozone shed up today.
Spent a bit of time tying down some scraping branches today. Parachute cord works great for putting a licking branch where one isn't.
The bare dirt is where I disked up lots of gly resistant pig weed before it could set seed. I put in brassicas. Did three other spray, throw and mow brassica plots too. Haven't mowed yet.
Here is my favorite picture. I put in the brassica's during a drought just hoping it would work out. I'll need more but a bad lightening storm just rolled through. Pic taken 2 minutes ago....
Put the ozone shed up today.
Spent a bit of time tying down some scraping branches today. Parachute cord works great for putting a licking branch where one isn't.
The bare dirt is where I disked up lots of gly resistant pig weed before it could set seed. I put in brassicas. Did three other spray, throw and mow brassica plots too. Haven't mowed yet.
Here is my favorite picture. I put in the brassica's during a drought just hoping it would work out. I'll need more but a bad lightening storm just rolled through. Pic taken 2 minutes ago....
Someday isle
5 year old buck +
Hopefully this cold front moving through missouri tonight and tomorrow will dump some rain down on our plots.
j-bird
Moderator
I use 550 cord for all sorts of things and licking branches is jut one of them! That o-zone shed is going to get you visited by the law. They gonna think your growing weed or cooking meth in there! Plums look great. Do you know what kind they are. I am considering adding some to a shrub project of mine.
Bill
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Plain old laziness. It's just easier to put the broadcaster on the side by side then it is to hook up the drill. Throw and grow worked for me last summer but the plot had a lot of pig weed in it.
Bill
Administrator
Honestly I don't remember where I ordered them from. Probably cold stream. But I do remember they were advertised as American Plums.
kl9
5 year old buck +
Bill
Administrator
Mik is right. All our clothes get washed then hung in the shed. Out the back door from the shower and into the shed to dress.
http://habitat-talk.com/index.php?threads/ozone-clothing-shed.6445/#post-154575
Iv read some guys that where using commercial ozone units ran them to long in to small area. They said the ozone generator will destroy rubber and elastics. They had destroyed thousands of dollars of hunting clothing. Be careful.
MN Slick
5 year old buck +
Plot looks good and we didn't have any rain last year either. I'll try the throw and mow next year and see how it goes.
mikmaze
5 year old buck +
I made it out again today, got a lot done,
seeded plot 7 with evolve mean bean crush + purple top turnip
plot 9 got plot spike clover
plot 11 got medium red clover + purple top
plot 12 got medium red, crimson, and purple top
plot 13 got crimson and purple top
plot 15 7 card stud + purple top
plots 4 , 8 and 14 are in maintain mode for medium red while plots 5 and 6 need to dry the heck out, both have weeps in them that are tractor traps. Not sure what will go into plots 5 and 6, kind of depends on when they dry out and how much growing season is left.
I might go back to a few of the plots at the end of september to see what ground is showing through, and decide if there is room for WR.
all this rain lately should make it easy to attack grasses in clover with cleth, I might even see if I can wrestle up some 24DB and attack some non desired pests in a second year medium red plot.
also seems the farmers 26 acre dent corn field looks pretty far along, bet he cuts a week before thanksgiving this year, leaving me room for a few acres of WR.
seeded plot 7 with evolve mean bean crush + purple top turnip
plot 9 got plot spike clover
plot 11 got medium red clover + purple top
plot 12 got medium red, crimson, and purple top
plot 13 got crimson and purple top
plot 15 7 card stud + purple top
plots 4 , 8 and 14 are in maintain mode for medium red while plots 5 and 6 need to dry the heck out, both have weeps in them that are tractor traps. Not sure what will go into plots 5 and 6, kind of depends on when they dry out and how much growing season is left.
I might go back to a few of the plots at the end of september to see what ground is showing through, and decide if there is room for WR.
all this rain lately should make it easy to attack grasses in clover with cleth, I might even see if I can wrestle up some 24DB and attack some non desired pests in a second year medium red plot.
also seems the farmers 26 acre dent corn field looks pretty far along, bet he cuts a week before thanksgiving this year, leaving me room for a few acres of WR.