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[j-bird]

Well I was back at it this weekend. Things here finally dried out. Ag corn is going crazy in my area. It is already starting to tassel and silk! As for my plot corn it's fine, but needed to be sprayed so I hit the plots on Saturday morning to kill the weeds. May have been a little late to do it as on Sunday I had some brown spots on the corn..... You can see the ag corn in the back. Hopefully next weekend I can get a dose of Urea on my plot.

The garden pea/bean trial is going OK.....I am concerned in that it appears that the deer have not taken any interest in them thus far.

I also took a pic of the area where I nuked the clover due to weeds with gly earlier in the year as well. As long as you get the rain....the clover (as long as it is well established) will bounce back.

I also sprayed all my orchard trees with Sevin to address the jap beetle issue. I waited until the evening to do that as it has been very hot here and I didn't want to cook my trees. I sprayed my daughters "garden" the day before as the beetles had taken to the sunflowers, beans and peas. I sprayed those on Saturday and I checked Sunday and no beetles! I mixed the Sevin at 2 oz of the concentrate I purchased per gallon of water like it stated. My apples seem to be progressing as well.....I did also take a look at the graft "die back" issue and it appears to be fire blight as the ends had the "hook" that seems to be a tell-tale sign. Thankfully the tree the scion came from doesn't show signs of it. I will clip off the dead and see what happens.

 

[Weasel]

Lots going on as usual there J. Looking good. I am in the same boat with my corn. Vacation & work have prevented me from spraying for almost 3 weeks. Headed up this weekend to get er done

 

[j-bird]

Lots going on as usual there J. Looking good. I am in the same boat with my corn. Vacation & work have prevented me from spraying for almost 3 weeks. Headed up this weekend to get er done

I got it sprayed now I need to get some urea on it before it gets to big.....if it gets to big I have to carry the bags down the rows! Too damn hot for that!!!

 

[j-bird]

Well I was out Sunday putting Urea on my corn plot sand took some pics along the way.

Below are my North and Southwest corn plots. Both are pretty small, and I applied a 40 lb bag of urea to each to give them a little kick. I need a little rain...which figures. We had too much in the spring and now it's starting to get a little too dry! The plots have some grass in them as I was only able to get conventional corn this year. The deer won't care as long as it produces a grain. Most of it is knee to waist high. I just opened the bag and walked down each row with the urea.

Since I was in the area I checked on my garden bean trial as well. Not looking so hot. I expected much more form the beans to be honest and my little experiment is a flop. I think I'm going ot have to plant a much larger area next year and see if that helps. I figured I would have beans sprouting out the top of the cages like crazy or see where they had been nipped back.....no sign of either!

I do have one of my chestnuts that looks like it's going to produce a few chestnuts this year for me.

And this is my best sawtooth that I grew from an acorn - planted a few years ago (spring of 2017). I had to go back and look and see when I planted these.....these threads are just as useful to me as well!!!

 

[j-bird]

Well things started to get a little on the dry side around here and then we got 1 1/2" of rain late in the week and saturday!

I decided it was time to do something with my MG cuttings as well.....So I potted about 30 cuttings or so and then planted another 2 dozen or so into some weed barrier fabric as well just to see how they will do. The potted ones will get watered when needed....the others.....maybe not so much.

I also went up to check on things and to plant a few remaining MG cutting. I typically plant RR corn, but this year could only get conventional.....never again! I think the corn will be fine, but I like to toss brassica into them and this year it looks like I could run a small push mower down each row! I will say the urea application last weekend seemed to give the corn a kick in the pants as well.....so did the grass, but oh well.

I was also doing some digging inside and found all the kids hunters eds cards.....I thought it was sort of a neat pic all of them together..... Hunters ed here is more about hunting safety and the like, so I encourage all the kids to take the course once they are old enough (normally around 10). Some may never hunt, but this allows them to and the safety portion is good for them as well.

 

[OkieKubota]

I can’t see any of your pictures on my iPad or iPhone. I can see all the photos in others threads but not this one...

 

[j-bird]

I can’t see any of your pictures on my iPad or iPhone. I can see all the photos in others threads but not this one...

I see them just fine, but have the same issue with a few other threads as well. I am not sure what causes it as I am not that computer savvy.

 

[j-bird]

Well I didn't get a whole lot of habitat work done, but I got some trails mowed, checked on a few things and got my cams back out.

Nothing much on the cams, we got a doe with twins and a younger doe with a single running around. Which is fine, but I would like to find something with some antlers.

I did get up to the north triangle plot (I was staying away because of a nested turkey).... and it isn't doing too bad. I obviously need to cut a few trees to get some more sunlight in a few spots.

The kids got "bored" and I guess the natural impulse to go shoot something. I had to smile as my oldest was helping the youngest..... Apparently we were under attach from an army of plastic bottles and aluminum cans!!!! 22 is a great way to work back up to the bigger stuff for deer season. I figure these two may head to the woods here in a month or some after some bushy-tails as well.......just not around the house!

Also got to see/experiment with something I had never seen before. The boy bought some surplus ammo for the 303 and turns out it doesn't use gun powder, but instead something called cordite. It looks like fine dried spaghetti. Learn something new all the time!

 

[OkieKubota]

How far are you from Terre Haute or Indie? Cruising through Indiana right now...

 

[j-bird]

How far are you from Terre Haute or Indie? Cruising through Indiana right now...

I am 2 hours from Terre Haute and roughly an hour from Indy. I'm located roughly about half way between Indy and Cincinnati not far off I -74. Sorry I didn't see your post sooner.

 

[j-bird]

Not sure how many other folks have issues with grondhogs/whistle pigs in getting under their buildings, but I have a barn that seems to draw them like a magnet. We evicted another one the other day. Their holes under buildings and holes in the ag fields can lead to costly repairs.

 

[OkieKubota]

I am 2 hours from Terre Haute and roughly an hour from Indy. I'm located roughly about half way between Indy and Cincinnati not far off I -74. Sorry I didn't see your post sooner.

That area around Terre Haute looked like it could hold some big deer! AG and woods.

 

[j-bird]

That area around Terre Haute looked like it could hold some big deer! AG and woods.

It does. The Wabash river runs through that general area and the mix of woods and ag is pretty great. IN can vary quite a bit. If your south of I-70 between Terre Haute and Indy and south of I-74 between Indy and Cincinnatti the land gets more hills and is home to the Hoosier national forest and lots more timber. There is still row crops farmed but the mix is far more balanced and in some cases even swings towards the timber side....especially closer to the Ohio river. I have read that the glacier didn't get quite that far and thus why the terrain is so different than the areas north. The areas generally north of those lines tends to be much flatter and row crops of corn and soybeans are king. The image below I shown roughly where the I-70 and I-74 area and then my county.....I'm close to far better counties, but 10 to 20% forest land leaves little habitat for deer in my home county.....but it could be worse.

 

[Familytradition]

That area around Terre Haute looked like it could hold some big deer! AG and woods.

The first 2 counties on the Illinois side seem have tons of deer. Parke is one of best about a county North of Terra Haute.


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[Familytradition]

They lowered the doe tags finally. Not enough in my opinion. I’m still in a 4 county with the late doe season.


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[j-bird]

I can’t see any of your pictures on my iPad or iPhone. I can see all the photos in others threads but not this one...

Okie.....see if that fixed it! I had to go back and recapture the images and replace them, but I hope it works. I was posting on HT and then just copying the posts here and maybe something in that process "broke"

You where not the only one having issues seeing them.....turns out I have a "lurker".....I had forgotten that I had created a short-cut for him to follow along.......HI DAD!

 

[j-bird]

So I have been trying to save a few chestnut trees I have. I bought 2 container trees earlier this year and they had gotten out of hand on me thru a dry spell, so I am trying to salvage them. I use my 55 gallon 3 point sprayer tank as a water truck. The area these are planted the soil can struggle to hold moisture. So I have been giving them a drink. You can see I still have some signs of life, but I am ashamed that they got as bad as they did.


Anther salvage project is a tree the deer destroyed last year. IN earlier posts I show how this tree had two little green buds on it and that was it. The tree was once a 6 foot or taller tree but the damage was so bad I had to cut it back to about 6 to 8 inches and only those 2 little green buds. It's doing well from where it came from, but I have essentially 2 branches fighting to be the central leader. I figure I will remove one over winter once dormant. Its about 3 feet tall now.


Other than that i got a block out to get some buck survey pics and broadcast some turnips and sprayed. The deer tend to not eat the turnips, but they are cheap insurance. I broadcast and then sprayed the grasses so it was sort of a "throw and spray" concept. The corn in my bottom plot isn't going to produce much. The flood this spring just simply set it back too far. I will leave it be for the cover aspect and will broadcast some winter wheat in a month or so for additional food as well.

The "garden" trial also didn't do as I had hoped. I simply broadcast the other seeds of those as well and we will move on. I think next year if I do that, I need to actually plant a garden and I think things will be better. I also will NOT use conventional corn again. The grasses I think have stunted the corn to some extent. RR only for me from now on. Corn is a pain enough as it is....non RR - just frustrating.

 

[j-bird]

I did stumble across a few paw-paw doing their thing as well......If anyone has interest in seed let me know as I have to collect some before the coons get them.

 

[OkieKubota]

Okie.....see if that fixed it! I had to go back and recapture the images and replace them, but I hope it works. I was posting on HT and then just copying the posts here and maybe something in that process "broke"

You where not the only one having issues seeing them.....turns out I have a "lurker".....I had forgotten that I had created a short-cut for him to follow along.......HI DAD!

I can now see them. Thanks!

 

[j-bird]

I can now see them. Thanks!

I had to delete them and re-post. I'll try to keep from doing it again......my Dad doesn't like not being able to see the pics as well!