Hawggardville

Neahawg

Neahawg

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Hawggardville is two different places one is about 80 acres and the other 72 and they are about a mile apart. The 80 acres is mostly open ground and we have struggled with black locust trees and erosion problems do to the previous owner.


 
We have a few watering wholes and springs with one large pond that is a little over 4acres.


Merle hawggard put a couple wood duck boxes up and we have had them using at least one.
 
Just south of the pond was one of the worst erosion areas. Merle smoother it out and planted improved short leaf pines from the Arkansas forestry commission 3 years ago I believe.

And the pines this year.


It should be noted this was into straight sand and they have pulled through and grown well.
 
We have fought and are still fighting black locust trees to plant the apples we either graft or pick up discounted at Walmart, Lowe's, home depot, etc.


Planted several trees this spring on anatova rootstock Merle grafted all but one are out of the five foot tubes and two are well out of the tubes.

 
This past winter I also planted a pear orchard I've got a few that are discount Lowe's trees Ayers, moonglow, and keiffer but also added several wildlife group pears, the Dozier crabapple, and au buck III and IV.

Phoenix pear has been my best grower of them so far but all have grown well.
 
An interesting Apple tree we now have was a captain Davis grafted on b118 that got girdled this winter. The tree had a sliver of bark left from being completely girdled and wouldn't have lived if we didn't do something. So I had a crabapple seedling we planted them next to each other, bent the tree over and grafted them together.

The graft took and the tree seems to be growing well now.

Now I wonder if the tree will keep any of the properties of the b118 rootstock or the standard rootstock we grafted to it.
 
We've planted several food plots over the past 2 years. Most have been winter grain, peas, radishes/turnips, and clover but this year we cleared out 1.25 acres of sweet gums to make a soybean field.

 
This is about what we started with with and with a couple of chainsaws we cleared it out.


Now looking pretty good.

 
Have put up quite a few stands around the place.

This is the view the deers get if they look you can just make me out on the stand.

View from one of the stands.
 
Planted 5 wildlife pears from mossy oak last fall this one took off.

Got a few Chickasaw plum thickets which judging by the scat hold deer pretty well.

 
Having two places let's us plant chestnuts such as Dunstan and Chinese on one as well as accf American chestnuts on the other.

These Dunstan's I grew a year ago from seed and bloomed this year.

Wbpdeer Chinese chestnut we got planted 4 out of what we've grown so far.

Biggest accf chestnut we have bigger than 20ft.
 
Have lots of wildlife in hawggardville but seen to many of these this year.

Have had some decent deer last few years but struggling with seeing them in the daylight. This year however I think ive had a few yearlings and lots of does on cam.


 
Wow! I didn't know we had a thread here, but hope you all enjoy it. I worked last night and left for the farms at 6am. I watered what seemed like enough to fill another pond, but my Sandy ground soaked it up. I didn't get any pics since I had planned on doing that when I was done and I was pretty hot by then. Only real problem I saw was grasshoppers ate a lot of my chestnut and a few apple tree leaves. I'll take all the turkey food I can get, but leave the trees alone.
 
You have a good thread here. I am interested in your plum thicket. What can you tell me about the size of it and where it is located.
I have some situations on a timbered farm where I could establish these.
Did you grow from seed, bare root or do cuttings work for them?
I hate snakes - I wish they never crossed my path. :eek:
 
wbpdeer said:
You have a good thread here. I am interested in your plum thicket. What can you tell me about the size of it and where it is located.
I have some situations on a timbered farm where I could establish these.
Did you grow from seed, bare root or do cuttings work for them?
I hate snakes - I wish they never crossed my path. :eek:
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Wayne they are wild chickasaw plums that I've worked to protect. They sucker like crazy so just a few make a nice thicket in a few years. You could use seed or its really easy to transplant the suckers after they go dormant. I can send you seed as I have a large bag of plums in my freezer I plan on making jelly with. The copperheads? You learn to live with them LOL. Almost forgot I've got three good plum thickets scattered around the place, probably 1/4 acre apiece.
 
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Guess we could trade - chestnuts for plum. You can keep the copperheads on that side of trade. :rolleyes:
I think the deer would love those plum thickets. What month do the plums drop?
Thanks for the feedback.
 
They usually drop the last two weeks of June. The deer were all in them this year eating drops and they'll bed down in there too. The coon, birds, and just about everything else loves them as well. It's hard to beat them to a few for jelly when your an hour away.
 
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