What Habitat Work Did You Do Today?

[chucker66]

Well we got 4 inches of snow last night after most of it was melted. Anyone in NW Wis looking to frost seed, nows the time to do it.

Chuck

 

[Tangler]

Well we got 4 inches of snow last night after most of it was melted. Anyone in NW Wis looking to frost seed, nows the time to do it.

Chuck

How about NH? I think I might do it next week!

 

[Turkey Creek]

Myself and my new sidekick Benjamin (he will be 2 months old in 3 more days), talked his mother (my oldest daughter) into letting us plant a apple tree in their backyard today when I stopped in to visit. Yes of course we planted a Lil' Benny!

 

[KY wild]

Spent most of the day getting materials together to build a shooting house tomorrow.

 

[bigboreblr]

Sandbur, if you bump into those swamp crabs and they have zombie fruit or scion keep me in mind. Looking to find a new variety for rootstock / seedling fruit that can handle being wet. Buying some of that pacific crabapple next year.

One of my local finds is 10ft from a small stream. Had good scion this year too.

Telemark, it's amazing clearancing oak trees.

Liming, fertilizing, and emergency watering a select few can really wake them up too. One dry year I had the only acorns around on my little 3 acre last home. Probably my best year overall for hunting too.

 

[MW22392]

Worked on some TSI last week, I don’t have any type of machinery so I’ve just been making nice neat piles of the slash. Found some beautiful sugar maple that I left, not helping the deer much standing but it’s one of my favorite fall colors. Maybe a logger will be interested in them one day.

 

[chucker66]

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Worked on some TSI last week, I don’t have any type of machinery so I’ve just been making nice neat piles of the slash. Found some beautiful sugar maple that I left, not helping the deer much standing but it’s one of my favorite fall colors. Maybe a logger will be interested in them one day.

Or you tap them for maple sap!!!! I warn you though its an addicting hobby

Chuck

 

[sandbur]

Sandbur, if you bump into those swamp crabs and they have zombie fruit or scion keep me in mind. Looking to find a new variety for rootstock / seedling fruit that can handle being wet. Buying some of that pacific crabapple next year.

One of my local finds is 10ft from a small stream. Had good scion this year too.

Telemark, it's amazing clearancing oak trees.

Liming, fertilizing, and emergency watering a select few can really wake them up too. One dry year I had the only acorns around on my little 3 acre last home. Probably my best year overall for hunting too.

Their fruit is very tiny. I like them for rootstock. I don’t think their scion would be any improvement over what you have.

I wish I could grow 10 plus of the rootstock.

 

[Telemark]

Their fruit is very tiny. I like them for rootstock. I don’t think their scion would be any improvement over what you have.

I wish I could grow 10 plus of the rootstock.

Can you coppice the tree and dump a pile of dirt on it?

 

[sandbur]

Can you coppice the tree and dump a pile of dirt on it?

Mine are readily available.

I must have 6-8 or more rootstock that I nursed along and topworked.

Somewhere there is a picture of the root mass of a tree that blew over about 25 years ago. Some of the broken roots got leaves and I cut those back with a bud and some roots. Then I potted them for a year or so.

 

[sandbur]

Mine are readily available.

I must have 6-8 or more rootstock that I nursed along and topworked.

Somewhere there is a picture of the root mass of a tree that blew over about 25 years ago. Some of the broken roots got leaves and I cut those back with a bud and some roots. Then I potted them for a year or so.

The lower left of the picture is ice in the ditch bank. This tree grows that close to water and tolerates periodic flooding. Fruit size is about 1/3 inch.

 

[sandbur]

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The lower left of the picture is ice in the ditch bank. This tree grows that close to water and tolerates periodic flooding. Fruit size is about 1/3 inch.