Recent content by swilk

Cant get equipment to it easily to mow it in all areas .... using a backpack sprayer I think I could control the chemical well enough to minimize the ground contact. It is literally a wall of vegetation. The downside is it out-competes everything else and becomes a mono-culture with rigid...

Just wanting to control it in a few select areas ... I have more of it than I know what to do with. It is really good for making natural looking ground-blinds too :) I think I will try gly and diesel applied late spring. see what that does for it.

Southern Indiana The biggest the stalk gets is about the size of a mans thumb .... it grows to maybe 10' tall at the tallest but most is 5-6'.

And how does a person go about killing it? I have always just called it cane grass but Im having difficulty finding an exact match to it on the web. The patches I want to control are in areas difficult to get equipment to so control will hopefully be by backpack sprayer. Will gly do the trick...

It's well drained so when it's not under water it doesn't have standing water.... The new plot is higher ground, richer in organic and not as sandy....But it isn't cleared yet. It's well drained too and with the added elevation I'll try beans on it.

Ive owned the property since 2009 and with the exception of one year, my neighbor to the East has planted beans every year on about 80 acres that butts up against mine. Winter and spring floods ....

Unfortunately the existing plot (the one with 1.4 Organic Matter) will be under water at least once every year. Almost without fail. As I type this the river is projected to get to 20' in the next 48 hours which puts that plot about a foot under water. The new plot is on ground about 7' higher...

Ive read a fair bit on the "throw and mow" and will likely try it on the sandier of the two plots. The plot has been disced 3 times in the last 10 years ive owned it. I mowed the tree growth about 8 years ago and have attempted plots 3 times since then. Some years the river dictates what I will...

Existing plot is pretty sandy .... new plot is a bit better. From what I gather the C.E.C. tells that story .... The ground is river bottom WRP that was taken out of crops in 2004. Ive put half hearted attempts into foodplots for a few years but have decided to get more serious this year...

Im not well versed in exactly what these results mean but I am attempting to learn ..... An existing plot an an additional area that I am looking to clear this winter. PH looks to be pretty decent on both. P and K appear to be pretty decent in the established plot but both a little low on the...