Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
So I have a 3 acre field above my house in the shape of a sideways ice cream cone..with the skinny end to the East. The easternmost acre of the field is a food/tree plot. In the West side of the field (the big end of the cone and near my Western property line) I have a screen of 5 rows of pine, spruce, poplar, and bush crabapple. To the East of that I have about 1.5 acres of overgrown hayfield (this field used to be a cultivated hayfield). Is there any way to speed up succession or to make this thicker than it already is? So far there is a good stand of hay and also some smaller trees, weeds and briars starting in it. Would giving it a shot of fertilizer help next spring? Don’t really want to mow it as I like the height on it (2-3’ minimum)…thanks in advance for the help.