Recent content by Jsteinke5188

I've built an 8x8 base for an elevated deer blind. Used four 6x6 treated timbers six foot tall and made my floor. Going to build my blind on top. 7 foot tall. Question I have is, the blind is going on a slight hill so I'll have to level the ground somehow. I don't want to put the timbers in...

Would you ever look at spreading compost around fruit trees for an extra boost?

Every spring, I'm picking up a pallet of lime! still in the low 6s every year.

Those were the days, as soon as dad and I split up on the trail.... "see you after dark, shoot em up" ... side note I dropped my phone out of the stand this past fall, best hunt I've had in years. Now I don't bring the phone out!

Thinking about building a small corn silo to hold maybe 500 to 1000lbs of corn. Buying it at that amount will cut my price in half! I'd rather make it out of wood, over steel. Anyone have any simple plans or any pictures of something like this?

I like the window set up! I'm going 8x8 and looking at cheap ways to make windows! I might frame the plexiglass into a 1x1 wood frame.

Your Walmart has trees like this??? I've been wanting to get some mulberriea

As much as I love being in Northern Wisconsin, being in zone 4b pretty much tells me chestnuts are not going to thrive. To add onto my zone, my ten acres is in the bottom of a valley that loves to freeze! I think I should still try a few... anyone have any luck in cold climate?

And has anyone ever considered buying "rootstock" apple trees and growing them for wildlife n food plots? Most are hardy to zone 3... antonovka, renetka crab?

I've dealt with paint creek nursery and Grandview orchard for the past few years but I'm looking for some other places that might have a different variety? I'd like to use a wisconsin nursery just due to shipping and making sure they're compatible to my area. Bareroot would be best also...

There was times hunting in the oaks you couldn't hear a deer coming in. Acorns falling like rain, it was "nuts"! Good God that was dumb... but yeah, mast year. Be another 5 to 7 years before it happens again!

I'd maybe look into shrubs that are going to feed and give cover to the birds and deer. If you've got big areas that you want your grasses, make some edges with shrubs and break those bigger areas up. "Create edges".... whatever you do, have fun and good luck

I might try getting some manure compost 40lb bags and spread those around my trees... too late to mix it in but it's got to help in the long run?

It's crazy what you don't think of lol I've been putting lime on my food plot for years... not realizing my trees are growing in that same soil. I'll have to add some at planting and maybe get a rotation going for all my other trees to improve that soil too.