What Habitat Work Did You Do Today?

[Westwind]

Cleaned out my dad’s wood duck houses yesterday and burned some switch. It was a perfect night but its damp enough that I didn’t get a complete burn once I lost the little bit of wind I had.

Hoping to get my native grasses burned today. I have a little 4 acre patch that was in a program but they are cutting a lot of small pieces in my area. My neighbor is doing beans in an adjoining field so we will do beans this summer and next spring I am going to re-design it with plots and switch screens. Works out great, I’d rather not spray a patch that big.

I also decided not to do my rr alfalfa this spring. That little patch is getting corn and I’ll go behind that with alfalfa and oats this fall.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Opened the gate to drain the duck impoundment. Still about 75 blue wing on it and a handful of other ducks but it’s getting late and it’s needs to dry out to spray and plant

Also sprayed about 9 acres. Cleaned up some with clover with Cleth and 2-4db and the rest was a burndown. It’s so hot and dry. I feel like what use to be planted in May now needs to be planted in april

 

[PatinPA]

Picked up 3 full grown beautyberry shrubs off of marketplace yesterday. Just had to dig them out of the lady's yard for $5 each. She said they were selling the same size or smaller at Lowe's for $40 each. I'll have to find a place to plant them now too.

 

[ksJoe]

(Saturday) I got a Komatsu D21S dozer. More specifically its a "track loader" - a dozer with a scoop on the front.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Sprayed to kill out 6 acres of cool season pasture that we burned a few weeks ago. I will reseed it next week into NWSG heavy on the forbs.

 

[hunts_with_stick]

Opened the gate to drain the duck impoundment. Still about 75 blue wing on it and a handful of other ducks but it’s getting late and it’s needs to dry out to spray and plant

Also sprayed about 9 acres. Cleaned up some with clover with Cleth and 2-4db and the rest was a burndown. It’s so hot and dry. I feel like what use to be planted in May now needs to be planted in april

Wow! Cool. I bet you have some fun duck hunts!

 

[Baker]

Planting starts today! Yipeee! Planting about 50 acres of summer annuals plus 20 acres of joint vetch and an 11 acre sunflower field. Big fun.

The summer annual mix:
30 lbs cow peas
10 lbs lab lab
10 lbs mung beans
10 lbs sunflower
10 lbs buck wheat
3 lbs okra
2 lbs sunn hemp

Notice no grasses. Still transitioning from impact of grazing cattle and want to be able to spray cleth if grass becomes a problem. I worked with Green Cover Seed and had them custom mix and coat with bio logics for me. Lastly am working with Soil Pro to " inoculate" the soil organically with biologicals designed from soil tests I sent them. Been excited to get this going for a while.

 

[Westwind]

That is a great mix!!!

 

[KY wild]

I watered my 25 apple grafts I planted in the field last November from pots. This is the driest April I can remember in my life. Farmers planting corn in the area looks like a dust storm. Probably only 10% of me deer vetch came up that I planted three weeks ago.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I watered my 25 apple grafts I planted in the field last November from pots. This is the driest April I can remember in my life. Farmers planting corn in the area looks like a dust storm. Probably only 10% of me deer vetch came up that I planted three weeks ago.

I wouldn’t stress about that vetch yet. It takes forever to get established and once it does, it goes crazy. Honestly, it’s a little early for it. I was planning on planting mine in about two weeks.