Scott's habitat improvements

[BuckSutherland]

What did you do to fertilizer the conifers, and does it work? I usually just grab a few lumps of deer shit and throw it at the bottom of the hole when I am planting.

 

[scott44]

What did you do to fertilizer the conifers, and does it work? I usually just grab a few lumps of deer shit and throw it at the bottom of the hole when I am planting.

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The 2nd or 3rd year I'll put some triple 10 or triple 12 whatever the elevator has.

 

[Bill]

My MG is behind a bit also. I’m blaming it on all the spring water..

 

[scott44]

Last year I planted 5 apple trees on the edge of our backyard and the hayfield not thinking of protecting them because we hardly ever havr deer in our yard but I was wrong, I lost 4 of the 5 and the 5th has just a few leaves. So I staked out a 60' X 100' area and fenced it in so I can plant some more fruit trees and put a garden in there.

Lone survivor

I bought a 330' roll of 6' poly fencing and it ended up being a little over 300' so luckily I had some 6' chain link fencing to finish it up, also repurposed an old cattle gate that I had sitting around. I got remimbursed for the shortage of fence.

My fruit orchard out back has a decent amount of fruit on the trees.

Few trail cam pics.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

Nice Scott. I enjoy seeing the buck in velvet pics too!

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[scott44]

I bought some fruit trees on sale for half off a Empire, Braeburn and Kieffer pear. The 2 apple tress will be planted in our yard orchard and the pear was for the deer.

I planted some curly willow cuttings in pots by the house most are about 3' now.

I got my brassica plots planted.

Before

After

This spring I broadcast med red, crimson and ladino clover and rye, oats and wheat into last years brassica plot, over the winter I lost a lot of my current clover/alfalfa plot so I'm just going to let the brassica plot go and plant cereal grains in the old clover plot.

A few trail cam pics.

This little guy was curious the last time I pulled cards.

 

[Native Hunter]

Those are some really great pictures!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

It looks like the natives are enjoying all the work you've put in. Good bucks developing.

 

[scott44]

Checked on my MG planted in switch, this is the first time I've seem it this year and I'm suprised on the growth with no prep or mantenance.

Also tried rolling a rye/oats clover plot instead of mowing it we'll see how it does.

First catkins on my Dunstans I planted last year, actually first catkins on any chestnuts I've planted.

This raspberries bush was under one of my cameras so I enjoyed a handful.

A few trail cam pics

 

[Bill]

Looks good. A couple of those bucks have nice brows. I hate when they cheat you on those...

 

[trampledbyturtles]

Is that stork riding a heron?

 

[Merle Hawggard]

The stork shot is pretty cool lol.
How cool is the weather there? Supposed to be around 82 for the high here tomorrow, which is unheard of! Usually Lucifer vacations here in July and August, feels right at home.

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[scott44]

The stork shot is pretty cool lol.
How cool is the weather there? Supposed to be around 82 for the high here tomorrow, which is unheard of! Usually Lucifer vacations here in July and August, feels right at home.

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We've had some warm weather and high humidity here the last little bit but we had storms come through the other night and the humidity dropped along with the temps, high in the mid 70's today.

 

[scott44]

Hooked up the brush hog and mowed some trails and strarted prepping for some NWSG planting.

Put the apple tree cam up, they have it down when they start falling plus picking apples. The tree is loaded this year plus I got some.

A few trail cam pics.

 

[Bill]

I love the tree tubes all over the place. Reminds me of how my place used to look before I took a tree planting hiadus

 

[H20fwler]

Love the old tractor! We used to have an 8N jubilee that we used for all kinds of small jobs, great tractor and easy to work on.
Nice bunch of bucks using the place...good update.

 

[Bill]

Love the old tractor!

Me too but....it gets hot.
Headed to the farm tomorrow and my trails are getting mowed with a pull behind in my “new” side by side.

Not even going to show a pic of it.

Just this...

 

[scott44]

Me too but....it gets hot.
Headed to the farm tomorrow and my trails are getting mowed with a pull behind in my “new” side by side.

Not even going to show a pic of it.

Just this...

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Congrats on the new purchase!

 

[H20fwler]

Me too but....it gets hot.

They are hot to sit on all day, I used to drag a bush hog on the back of ours all day long chopping stalks and mowing in summer.
Our Case 930 was where I spent most of my time, I thought I was in deep cotton when Dad finally put a fender radio on it for me..even though it only got AM radio! He thought he was spoiling me when he would put a wind protector on it in winter so I wouldn't freeze to death hauling manure in Jan-Feb. Those were the days!

 

[scott44]

Got my cereal grains in yesterday it started raining as I was packing things up, we had a nice all night soaker.

Our last rain was on the 16th-17th and I went out late to spread some urea on the brassicas.

Urea helped them but there were still a few bare spots, I broadcast some cereal grains into these spots yesterday.

Our older mature apple trees are loaded this year.

A few trail cam pics.