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    Only have one weekend... Need advice

    Due to covid-19, a mess of weddings and showers and personal injury that will require surgery, I'm only going to get one weekend at one of my locations to address some plots. I'll be going up on the weekend of the 25th. I plan to address a 2 acre area that we've been working on the last couple...
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    Vitis Riparia - What to plant with

    I've got some major riparian zones/field edges that I would love to get some wild grape established and tall enough that it would be up above the browse line. I plan to use some sort of stake/post to let it grow to start, tubed, then allow it to snake up some trees. My questions are: 1. What...
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    Firminator vs. Kasco Plotter's Choice

    Going to pick one of these two up. Anyone have experience with both? Or suggestions on what they would recommend? I plan to use them in some more open areas, planting anything from screens to crops, but will also need to get them back into some hidey holes in the woods. I would be pulling these...
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    TSI in unreachable areas

    After sitting in the stand a weekend, I ventured through the woods a bit since nothing was moving. I have several stands of timber deep in my woods that need to be thinned. Unfortunately, the only real things you can get to them is a chainsaw. No heavy equipment or anything to haul out logs...
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    Leveling/Grading Fields - It's time this spring - Advice

    We have about a 3 acre food plot that I plan to "fix" in spring. The problem with the field is mostly that it is very uneven. To this point I have mostly been using no till, and while that has gotten us some decent clover results, especially on the flatter, better draining areas, it has not...
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    Identifying Plants on your Landscape - Northern

    For those of you in the north - especially in Minnesota, the following website is extremely helpful for identifying plants on your landscape: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/ The advanced plant search is particularly useful to ID plants. They even have an offline app you can download...
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    Thunder Crop Rotations

    Anyone know the history behind this:
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    Mixing seeds - what is your approach?

    Do you guys put your mixtures all together in your spreader and then go to town? How do you prevent your small seeds from not just dropping out the bottom and getting an uneven spread? I have always done one seed at a time because I am so paranoid when spreading different size seeds. It takes...
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    Suggestions for mixed Aspen forest

    Northern MN Last Spring, we clear cut a 1/3 acre area in the woods that was mostly quaking aspen and some alder. It's high ground near my primary deerstand. The area also has some mature white oak as well as some maple and a few other native tree species. The forest is overly mature and should...
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