scott44
5 year old buck +
The last couple years I've noticed the deer have been using the brassicas long before they have frosted.
Make sure you use something other than a plastic tags and permanent marker for your trees, my 2 best apple trees so not have tags and I can't tell youwhat they are.
A few trail cam pics.
Make sure you use something other than a plastic tags and permanent marker for your trees, my 2 best apple trees so not have tags and I can't tell youwhat they are.
A few trail cam pics.
Bill
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Scott,
Next time out Take a closer look at what’s making those holes in the brassica leafs.
I may be paranoid but one year I had holes like that (many More though) and my brassicas were gone two weeks later. It’s what made me start planting them later in the summer. Flea beetles or brassica beetles.
I can’t zoom the pic in but maybe you can. If so zoom on this.
It it might just be a few grass hoppers. Like I said I’m paranoid :)
Next time out Take a closer look at what’s making those holes in the brassica leafs.
I may be paranoid but one year I had holes like that (many More though) and my brassicas were gone two weeks later. It’s what made me start planting them later in the summer. Flea beetles or brassica beetles.
I can’t zoom the pic in but maybe you can. If so zoom on this.
It it might just be a few grass hoppers. Like I said I’m paranoid :)
scott44
5 year old buck +
Most of my brassicas are doing good except one plot that didn't take real well, I over seeded it with my cereal grain mix and it's filling in ok.
The good
The not so good but getting better.
First Golden Delicious apples.
Cereal grain mix TnM doing ok.
A few trail cam pics.
These 2 were out in front of the camera for quite a few pics.
Good clover
The good
The not so good but getting better.
First Golden Delicious apples.
Cereal grain mix TnM doing ok.
A few trail cam pics.
These 2 were out in front of the camera for quite a few pics.
Good clover
scott44
5 year old buck +
I went and picked up all my cameras yesterday to check batteries and clean them, they'll go back out here when I get that done. We lost a lot of our snow yesterday with the temps in the high 40's. I drove around and checked on everything first time since last fall.
Some comparison pics, CIR switch on the left and a NWG mix of Big Blue, Indian and CIR on the right. The mix is a strip through the CIR field, just a comparison how other NWG's stand up over the winter here.
Trying to make thermal bedding here with red cedar clumps, I planted some cedars and spruce in the hinge cuts for some protection instead of caging.
One of my MG experiments of planting it in and around switch grass and hinged Ash trees. The switch here is a little thinner this last year than it has been in the past so I'm going to have to thicken it up.
Seems like I catch a few red fox this time of year.
Some comparison pics, CIR switch on the left and a NWG mix of Big Blue, Indian and CIR on the right. The mix is a strip through the CIR field, just a comparison how other NWG's stand up over the winter here.
Trying to make thermal bedding here with red cedar clumps, I planted some cedars and spruce in the hinge cuts for some protection instead of caging.
One of my MG experiments of planting it in and around switch grass and hinged Ash trees. The switch here is a little thinner this last year than it has been in the past so I'm going to have to thicken it up.
Seems like I catch a few red fox this time of year.
scott44
5 year old buck +
Yea, looks like bamboo this time of year.
scott44
5 year old buck +
It felt really good to get out and plant 12 apple trees and freshen up some clover plots today and get my mind off what's going in in the world for a few hours.
Tags ready
My Turkey Creek trees looked good like always.
I have to go back and finish fencing some of them in but I put temp cages on them, I've learned from past experience sometimes even one night the deer will find them and help themselves.
I started a new orchard last year with chestnuts and a Kieffer pear now it has 3 new apple trees.
MG still makes a pretty good screen even this time of year.
One of our plots last years brassicas on the left and cereal grains on the right.
Clover in the cereal grains looks like it's doing pretty good.
Tags ready
My Turkey Creek trees looked good like always.
I have to go back and finish fencing some of them in but I put temp cages on them, I've learned from past experience sometimes even one night the deer will find them and help themselves.
I started a new orchard last year with chestnuts and a Kieffer pear now it has 3 new apple trees.
MG still makes a pretty good screen even this time of year.
One of our plots last years brassicas on the left and cereal grains on the right.
Clover in the cereal grains looks like it's doing pretty good.
scott44
5 year old buck +
I got my trees from 39th Parallel planted and the 100 rhizomes from Real World.
I added another small orchard here in the corner of the the hayfield, the corner has a natural drainage cutting it off so some years it was hard to get in there to take the hay off, 5 apple and 2 pears trees.
Last year I put up a fence for fruit trees and our garden, I bought a 330' roll of 6' poly fence so that is as big as I made this new area. I measured it out and changed up the configuration and added 100' of fence. So what do you do when add 100' of fence you add more fruit trees, I plan on adding berry bushes too once I can get out and get some.
3 apple trees last year 3 more apple and a couple pears.
Just starting to wake up here.
I added another small orchard here in the corner of the the hayfield, the corner has a natural drainage cutting it off so some years it was hard to get in there to take the hay off, 5 apple and 2 pears trees.
Last year I put up a fence for fruit trees and our garden, I bought a 330' roll of 6' poly fence so that is as big as I made this new area. I measured it out and changed up the configuration and added 100' of fence. So what do you do when add 100' of fence you add more fruit trees, I plan on adding berry bushes too once I can get out and get some.
3 apple trees last year 3 more apple and a couple pears.
Just starting to wake up here.
Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
Looking awesome Scott!
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buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
Nice work Scott!
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This is a great thread. Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to get my mind wrapped around throw and grow methods because I had minimal success last year. Can you share some before and after throw n grow plots? You provided them in the thread but there's a lot of information here and it was hard to match them up. Thanks
scott44
5 year old buck +
Here's a throw and roll brassica plot for last year, just happened to have a trail cam on it so it's pretty easy to see the progression of it.
7/2 I broadcast brassicas into a grassy rye plot from the fall before, I usually do this roll and spray all at once but I didn't and had to go back later and spray it.
Couple days later.
Month and a half later.
Two and a hald months later.
Four months later.
scott44
5 year old buck +
I haven't done much since planting my fruit trees in April, I made it out and planted a couple sorghum mix plots, brush hogged some clover and my orchards.
I had a bunch of small box elder trees that had sprung up so I bought a heavy duty Brush Grubber, I have a hook on the bucket of my FEL bucket so I hooked the chain short and just curled the bucket and the popped right out, the soil was really damp so I can see where this probably wouldn't work under drier conditions.
The pear tree in our yard was really loaded with blossoms this year, I tried grafting some from this tree a few years ago but a no go because it was hard to find good scions. I trimmed some branches last this and last year so I have some newer scions now.
This clover was planted last spring in a previous falls brassica plot, I was going to kill it for a cereal grain plot but it looked good so I left it, trimmed it high so hopefully it gets a lotof the grasses in it.
I have been trying to do most of my plots throw and mow/roll but I think there are sometimes to do minimal till, run the disc over it a couple times, broadast seed and cultipack.
I mowed my orchards but need to clean up the cages.
I had a bunch of small box elder trees that had sprung up so I bought a heavy duty Brush Grubber, I have a hook on the bucket of my FEL bucket so I hooked the chain short and just curled the bucket and the popped right out, the soil was really damp so I can see where this probably wouldn't work under drier conditions.
The pear tree in our yard was really loaded with blossoms this year, I tried grafting some from this tree a few years ago but a no go because it was hard to find good scions. I trimmed some branches last this and last year so I have some newer scions now.
This clover was planted last spring in a previous falls brassica plot, I was going to kill it for a cereal grain plot but it looked good so I left it, trimmed it high so hopefully it gets a lotof the grasses in it.
I have been trying to do most of my plots throw and mow/roll but I think there are sometimes to do minimal till, run the disc over it a couple times, broadast seed and cultipack.
I mowed my orchards but need to clean up the cages.
scott44
5 year old buck +
My fencing is held on with zip ties I snip some of the ties and lift the fence up and weed whip under it. Also I'll take the fence apart and weed whip inside, time consuming but I feel it's worth it, sometimes I'll mix up some Gly in my backpack sprayer and hit the outside perimeter of the fence.
Some that are done and some that aren't.
scott44
5 year old buck +
This is the year for trees to poke out of the tubes, some are slower than others.
I've been planting MG in this switch field for the last couple years, it looks like this year it might actually amount to something.
My first Realworld MG.
These highbush cranberry bushes were planted 6 yrs ago without caging so after the first year I caged the ones that were left and a few that weren't caged made it but are heavily browsed.
Had something in my boot after spreading seed, nothing irrataes the foot like buckwheat seed.
I put the trail cams back out a couple weeks ago and have a few pics.
I've been planting MG in this switch field for the last couple years, it looks like this year it might actually amount to something.
My first Realworld MG.
These highbush cranberry bushes were planted 6 yrs ago without caging so after the first year I caged the ones that were left and a few that weren't caged made it but are heavily browsed.
Had something in my boot after spreading seed, nothing irrataes the foot like buckwheat seed.
I put the trail cams back out a couple weeks ago and have a few pics.
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Looking good Scott
