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Tough not to cry for you down here Dbltree...

It has been some time since his passing, but I want to bump this back up because for someone I never met he impressed me beyond that which can be describe with words. I will also add that I am NOT an easy person to impress. I am very driven and hold the bar very high for anyone that works with me or for me. When I first started looking at his threads on the various forums and the number of people he helped it did not escape me that he spent an extraordinary time helping others. I am still impressed and do not know how he found the time to do so. I have helped a few friends this past two years who just acquired properties and do not know diddly about farming, management, fruit trees, plants, weeds, you name it ....... I know how much time it takes to help others and what I have done is a drop in the ocean compared to what Lickcreak did.

He lead me to Alice clover which now my favorite clover by far. He tipped the scales that causes me to plant far more rye today than every before. I had been and oats and winter wheat guy. I could go on and on. If someone will give me his Lickcreek recipe I will plant a plot of it and a willow on a friends farm in honor of Paul. Neither of these friends had the pleasure of messaging with him as did I, but they can still learn from him thanks to his threads. I am not a computer expert, but those of you out there who can keep his threads open and available to the public are so very appreciated as well. Take care and have a good day.
 
Sorry about the typos the eyes are going and I have not yet gotten glasses. When I type on this electronic information machine I can see the darn thing until after I post it and then enlarge it to read it.
 
WTNUT said:
It has been some time since his passing, but I want to bump this back up because for someone I never met he impressed me beyond that which can be describe with words. I will also add that I am NOT an easy person to impress. I am very driven and hold the bar very high for anyone that works with me or for me. When I first started looking at his threads on the various forums and the number of people he helped it did not escape me that he spent an extraordinary time helping others. I am still impressed and do not know how he found the time to do so. I have helped a few friends this past two years who just acquired properties and do not know diddly about farming, management, fruit trees, plants, weeds, you name it ....... I know how much time it takes to help others and what I have done is a drop in the ocean compared to what Lickcreak did.

He lead me to Alice clover which now my favorite clover by far. He tipped the scales that causes me to plant far more rye today than every before. I had been and oats and winter wheat guy. I could go on and on. If someone will give me his Lickcreek recipe I will plant a plot of it and a willow on a friends farm in honor of Paul. Neither of these friends had the pleasure of messaging with him as did I, but they can still learn from him thanks to his threads. I am not a computer expert, but those of you out there who can keep his threads open and available to the public are so very appreciated as well. Take care and have a good day.
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Here's Paul's rotations

Dbltree seed mix and rotation
Plant ALL in one plot in strips or blocks

Alice, Kopu II, Durana (or comparable) white clover 10% of plot, sow at 6#'s per acre with the rye combination in the fall or in the spring with oats and berseem clover. Correct Ph and P&K with soil tests

Brassicas in 45% of plot

Purple Top Turnips 3#
Dwarf Essex Rape 2#
GroundHog Forage radish 5#

Plant in mid to late July in most Midwest states, or 60-90 days before your first killing frost, Use 200#'s of 46-0-0 urea and 400#'s of 6-28-28 per acre. Follow the dead brassicas with oats and berseem or crimson clover in mid spring at 60#'s oats and 12-15#'s berseem clover and/or crimson and/or 50#'s of chickling vetch)

Cereal Grain combo in 45% of plot...we use 50# each rye, oats and peas along with radish and clover seed all planted in half of each feeding area

Winter rye 50-80#'s per acre (56#'s = a bushel)
Spring oats 50-120#'s per acre (32#'s = a bushel)
Frostmaster Winter Peas or 4010/6040 Forage peas 20-80#'s per acre

Red Clover 8-12#'s per acre or white clover at 6#'s per acre (or 20-40 pounds hairy vetch and 20-30#'s crimson clover on sandy soils)
Groundhog Forage Radish 5#'s per acre

Plant in late August to early September, if following well fertilized brassicas use 100 - 200#'s of urea, if starting a new plot add 400#'s of 6-28-28 but for best results soil test and add only what is necessary.

Rotate the brassicas and rye combo each year
 
Thank you Scott44.
 
Just finished broadcasting rye into my yellowing beans today.

In a million years I wouldn't have come up with that idea on my own.

Thanks Paul.
 
Very fitting. Thanks for sharing.
 
Thanks for sharing, his knowledge and his sharing of it was something else. He's missed by all.
 
I don't know if someone on here knows Paul's family - but if they do, I'd like to wish them a Merry Christmas and Happy New year. I've been thinking about them and the holiday season and hope they know they'll see Paul again in a happier place. That's what Christmas is all about - and Paul knew it. If anyone on this forum knows how to contact Paul's family, I wish them peace this Christmas season - and I suspect many others on here do as well.
 
They are on Facebook if that helps at all.
 
Was thinking of him this past weekend as I planted my clover/cereal mix. Heck of a man, and he is doing better than all of us now!
 
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