What Habitat Work Did You Do Today?

[Westwind]

Yanked root balls out of native grass. That field came out of a program and will be beans this summer. Fall mix as soon as beans get harvested. The tooth bar is perfect right now for stuff too small for my grapple. Ground is soft and roots come right out.

 

[somich]

Had 2 persimmon get raked to death in our east food plot. So we got 2 more from chestnut hill to put in tomorrow. That will take it back to 5 persimmon 2 female 3 male.

Roots are really nice.

 

[somich]

This is a 2 year in our soil Prairie Fire crab from Arbor day. We have 12 or 15 and they have all developed like this.

They're in soil that has plenty of water most of the year. Clean the cages and tubes day.

 

[Tangler]

yesterday planted 10 green giants to help screen a road and watered them using a little honda gas powered water pump (pumped water from a little spring that runs near food plot) then today I spot sprayed some grass in a clover food & did some forest stand improvement (girdle and squirt) then I put some weed mats on 20 dogwood seedlings, then spread some clover, ragweed, partridge pea and illinois bundle flower seed on a food plot and a path to the plot.
Small surgery monday so this will be it for a while.

 

[fingers]

Planted a pin oak and Regal Prince oak and fixed cages on several DCOs

 

[Turkey Creek]

Looks like I got a decent first round burn down/ maybe kill on my cool season pasture in front of my house. Drilled it on Monday with NWSG. Now we just need some rain. Spot sprayed a couple of spots I missed with the boom on the tractor. Didn't spray aound the pond as I was concerned about erosion. I can't reseed it easily unless I have a dozer smooth it out. Last photo is a area I had opened up on the new ridge trail. Just wanted to see what the response would be and do some herbicide comparisons for treating the regrowth. Lots of Honeysuckle and Buckbrush. The deer have been hitting the Honeysuckle regrowth pretty hard, might leave some patches that I can mow off every year so it doesn't mature enough to throw seed.

 

[Maddog66]

My wife asked me to grab about 50 MG grass rhizomes, if there was still time.

I went to the Maple Farms website and saw they have a waiting list and rhizomes are $.90 each???

I looked at other online sources and they are even more expensive!

What gives?

 

[Brian662]

My wife asked me to grab about 50 MG grass rhizomes, if there was still time.

I went to the Maple Farms website and saw they have a waiting list and rhizomes are $.90 each???

I looked at other online sources and they are even more expensive!

What gives?

Popularity has skyrocketed the past few years. When I bought mine four years ago, I think Don at Maple River said that was the first or second year they couldn't meet demand.

 

[Maddog66]

Got it. Thanks! Last time I bought them they were about 1/2 this price. None of those are big enough to harvest rhizomes yet.

It’s funny, this Thursday I’m picking up 100 white spruce seedlings for $45….and grass is more expensive / less available.

 

[fishin coyote]

Picked up my hazelnut order from the conservation district sale on Friday. They all looked good with nice roots. Got all 20 in the ground and cages on half of them. I’ll load up the SxS with wood chips 1 afternoon this week and finish them up. Found this trillium blooming under a tree top in a TSI cutting I did a couple of months ago. In 10 years this is only the 2nd one I’ve found in bloom. Usually with our high deer herd they get munched right away. Maybe I’m making progress, there were quite a few more growing in the area.

 

[Tangler]

Got it. Thanks! Last time I bought them they were about 1/2 this price. None of those are big enough to harvest rhizomes yet.

It’s funny, this Thursday I’m picking up 100 white spruce seedlings for $45….and grass is more expensive / less available.

I love Don and his Rhizomes but I have recently become a huge fan of white spruce & Canaan fir and green giants & red spruce for screening. planting is addictive. I just had small surgery (6 weeks recovery bs) which is going to put the brakes on habitat work but I got around 400 trees planted this spring which is a record for me.

 

[TenPoint]

Where are you guys getting the green giants from?