The Land of Milk and Honey

[T-Max]

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[Foggy47]

^. Looks like your on it to me. Nice piece of land. Beautiful countryside.

 

[Barndog56]

Sounds like you're doing all you can. Where you have the high spots in yellow and blue of post #7 would be a good spot for apples. Turkey Creek probably has some good ones for your area.

 

[Bill]

that buffer is going to be nice!

 

[White Oak]

Plant some Crabapples and Pears

 

[Catscratch]

Nice!!!

 

[cbw]

Nice property! Love seeing these threads. So, my in-laws live east of Newton KS. We drive through the flint hills to get there. Are you close to the flint hills? Some rugged country there.


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[Catscratch]

Kind of nice having some KS guys on the site. I'm about 1.5hrs south of Newton. Smack dab in the southern tip of the Flint Hills.

 

[Catscratch]

I’m staggering my seed spreading due to the continued drought. Looks like the clover will get spread this weekend. Pretty good chances for precip coming up. Will hold off a couple more weeks on the rye maybe just to spread my risk. I was able to still find a few brassica seeds untouched in my field. They have laid there for about a month I think…


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I haven't even bought fall seed. It's hard to get too excited when It feels like a hot July outside. Hope you get that rain next week!

 

[omicron1792]

This spring I started the transition of one of our bottom fields from brome to something more useful. It’s a little hard to tell, but I mowed the outline of the future plot.

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That’s a pretty plot of land. I think you can do great things there.

 

[omicron1792]

That’s cool stuff my man. Thanks!

 

[Catscratch]

Beautiful plot!!! That post with the licking branch will draw attention right off the bat!

 

[Bill]

I robbed the branch from another scrape nearby. I thought it would already have some scent and take away a distraction so they focus on mine.


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Oh that works. We do it every year.

 

[Telemark]

Two things :

1. I think you should consider crabapples and pears in your orchard. (in addition to the persimmons, apples, and chestnuts)

2. Would it not be better to put the bedding south of the orchard and a big food plot north of the orchard?

 

[buckdeer1]

Looks good and I agree,even this years when apples and pears were few my crab apples produced some.I only have a few chestnuts as it seems they are hard to keep alive.I also planted a 30 tree orchard this year and so far all alive with irrigation system.Be sure and plant them far enough apart and leave a gap where you might want to see through the trees someday.

 

[Catscratch]

I'll second considering the pears. Pears out produce my apples and crabs by quite a bit, and are way more consistent too. My chestnuts struggle just like buckdeer's. Some stay live but haven't grown much. Sawtooths are a much better tree on my place.

Looks like a good plan. What's your predominant wind direction during season? I get more south east days than anything else. Especially when fruit is producing.

 

[Catscratch]

I hope you get a good kill on that brome. Will you spray it in the spring too?

 

[Turkey Creek]

Yea the last couple of days have been a shock to the system! LOL Forecast is not calling for above freezing temperatures for the next week. Compared to MN standards we aren't cold I know, but dang it feels like I was sweating with just a sweatshirt on the other day.... oh wait I was! LOL. Well the drifting snow does suck, but the thing about that is unless it is snowing non stop there are quite a few areas that are wind swept so critters can get to the ground surface. This time of year deer are feeding on a lot of browse and maybe some corn if they can find it.

 

[buckdeer1]

We were lucky and no snow on ground and its 11 degrees.

 

[Catscratch]

Curious what shows...