What Habitat Work Did You Do Today?

[H20fwler]

Just had my new to me tractor delivered, came with a 6’ mower, blade and plow.
It runs like a top, plan is to restore it in the next few years…we had one of these on the farm when I was growing up…spent what seemed like thousands of hours mowing when I was a kid.
It’s seventy years old and still doing what it was made for.

It will be very handy mowing the pasture, doing odd jobs and taking grandsons for rides.

 

[SwampCat]

Pruned a few more trees, pruned my 6 muscadines, and fertilized about 20 trees

 

[sandbur]

I finished up pruning except for some misfits and some older trees that I might go back and clean up. I could actually use a ladder to prune versus using snowshoes in quite a few years.

 

[hunts_with_stick]

Finished my pruning, for the most part. Didn’t have my pole saw/clippers so I couldn’t get to the top of some. Now I just hope to get enough apples this year to make cider.

 

[KY wild]

Grafted 20 apple trees yesterday and plan to graft more trees today. I ordered 30 apple rootstocks and 20 pear rootstocks this year.

 

[Baker]

Planting crabapples, jap persimmons, and pears

 

[Tangler]

More forest stand improvement today. More sunlight to the ground.

 

[Double Creek]

I unboxed 100 Chickasaw plum seedlings and put them in a cooler and covered with soil. I’ll be planting them tomorrow. I was planning to use the dibble bar but these roots are probably going to require a shovel. More work than anticipated…

 

[KY wild]

I unboxed 100 Chickasaw plum seedlings and put them in a cooler and covered with soil. I’ll be planting them tomorrow. I was planning to use the dibble bar but these roots are probably going to require a shovel. More work than anticipated…

I would bring some pruners, if it was me about plum tree #72, I would start pruning some roots.

 

[Double Creek]

I would bring some pruners, if it was me about plum tree #72, I would start pruning some roots.

At a little over $1 each, I’ll probably start the pruning at #1 and just hope for the best!

The upside is this is very sandy soil, so digging will be easy if necessary

 

[Turkey Creek]

Had my neighbor down the road bring up his skidsteer with his industrial strength brushhog attachment today. Some projects are just too much for one guy with a saw and a sprayer to handle efficiently. The attachment on his skidsteer can eat some serious material. Watched him cut off/ shear off 8" diamter at the stump cedars with no problems. Any how first picture is about 2 acres of about 10 that he cleared in a pasture today. Only took him about 2 hours to remove a layer of blackberry, honey locust and hedge as well as a few cedars. Second photo was my splurge project, had him cut a trail about 200 yards long through one of my bedding areas down to a small area that will be a new "hidey hole" clover plot just off one of my main plots. Pretty well surrounded by cedars so feel like the deer should use it prior to dark. The trail to the new plot will hopefully redirect them a bit. Currently they travel in an area that is not conducive to a south, southeast wind. Currently I have not stand locations suitable for the wind direction so this setup today makes that possible.



Blue line is the new trail heading up the hill through one of my bedding areas. Red will be the clover plot.

 

[Double Creek]

I’m about habitat worked out! Yesterday I planted the 100 Chickasaw plums. I ended up pruning 90% of them pretty heavily so that I could use the dibble bar but. Hopefully a handful will make it. At 80 degrees and high humidity, I wasn’t about to shovel plant 100 trees.

Got 5 acres of clover plots sprayed. Set six dog proofs for nest predators.

Went back this morning, all empty traps. I did get 20 ozark chinquapin planted, tubed and weed mats down today . Also put out 10 bags of mulch to help hold down some weed mats.

I’m whipped!

 

[Double Creek]

A couple of my clover plots look amazing. A few others are getting overrun with rye grass. Here is my best one:

 

[Turkey Creek]

Man I don't know where you are located, but that clover looks awesome. If I had that right now this time of year it would be packed full of deer and I am guessing turkeys as well. My only clover plot is looking pretty sad right now, its just starting to wake up from being dormant.

 

[Tangler]

More forest stand improvement, more sunlight to the ground. Here is an oak whose canopy I freed up. Northern red oak in center of pictures. (Quercus rubra). also left some stumps to sprout and also cut some small trees for deer to eat. Slow and steady improvement.

 

[Tangler]

I’m about habitat worked out! Yesterday I planted the 100 Chickasaw plums. I ended up pruning 90% of them pretty heavily so that I could use the dibble bar but. Hopefully a handful will make it. At 80 degrees and high humidity, I wasn’t about to shovel plant 100 trees.

Got 5 acres of clover plots sprayed. Set six dog proofs for nest predators.

Went back this morning, all empty traps. I did get 20 ozark chinquapin planted, tubed and weed mats down today . Also put out 10 bags of mulch to help hold down some weed mats.

I’m whipped!

Impressive

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Got one of these seeders and brought it up today my place today. One of the spike rollers up front has a bent/broken rod so I took it off and hopefully I can get a new one welded on.

 

[Double Creek]

Man I don't know where you are located, but that clover looks awesome. If I had that right now this time of year it would be packed full of deer and I am guessing turkeys as well. My only clover plot is looking pretty sad right now, its just starting to wake up from being dormant.

South Alabama. An hour due south and you’re standing on the beach. A couple of the clover plots turned out great. A couple flopped. I went heavy on the rate at approximately 25lbs to the acre. Extremely mild winter. I’m not sure if we even had more than a handful of frosts this year and my soil temperature has been above 70 degrees for weeks

 

[Derek Reese 29]

South Alabama. An hour due south and you’re standing on the beach. A couple of the clover plots turned out great. A couple flopped. I went heavy on the rate at approximately 25lbs to the acre. Extremely mild winter. I’m not sure if we even had more than a handful of frosts this year and my soil temperature has been above 70 degrees for weeks

Us northerners who are just contemplating frost seeding into our barren, just unfrozen, seemingly lifeless plots are all salivating over those pics….

 

[Turkey Creek]

South Alabama. An hour due south and you’re standing on the beach. A couple of the clover plots turned out great. A couple flopped. I went heavy on the rate at approximately 25lbs to the acre. Extremely mild winter. I’m not sure if we even had more than a handful of frosts this year and my soil temperature has been above 70 degrees for weeks

I will stay put as a Northern boy, but those plots sure look good.