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.

 

[Tangler]

Planted 5 Fuyu persimmon trees.

 

[bigboreblr]

That was my plan for those wetter rootstocks. Grow in a rootmaker pot, then tip on it's side for rootstock production.

Spread naother 20 bags of barn lime around the spots that were too wet last week. Collected some soil for my rootstock order next week.

 

[Double Creek]

Planted the last 100 Chickasaw plums. I pruned them heavily to use the dibble bar, so we shall see. No mats, no tubes.

I checked on all of my legitimate winter plantings that have tubes and weed mats. I’d say 70% are budding out. Within a month I’ll know what made it and what didn’t.

At least 50% of them have fire ant issues. I put some ant bait on maybe 25% before I ran out. That’s a priority for next weekend. Some of tubes had ants mounds 24” tall on inside. Several of the seedlings had buds despite being buried half of their length in ant beds. I got bit a few times…..

 

[Tangler]

Planted the last 100 Chickasaw plums. I pruned them heavily to use the dibble bar, so we shall see. No mats, no tubes.

I checked on all of my legitimate winter plantings that have tubes and weed mats. I’d say 70% are budding out. Within a month I’ll know what made it and what didn’t.

At least 50% of them have fire ant issues. I put some ant bait on maybe 25% before I ran out. That’s a priority for next weekend. Some of tubes had ants mounds 24” tall on inside. Several of the seedlings had buds despite being buried half of their length in ant beds. I got bit a few times…..

Awesome! I have 25 American plum in the way (shipping 3/23/26) and ai am going to start digging the holes for them. These are for “screening” mostly but I like the native fruit and browse potential!