Recent content by Kurt

Its handy on yuccas and fields with a lot of locust. I wear gloves or I'd be pappa smurf for sure.

Looked at some videos of these crystals. Seems like they may help and used correctly I don't see a downside. Planning on digging out sod, then digging a couple gallons of dirt, mixing some of those in, maybe a half cup of 10-10-10 fertilizer and repacking hole with this mix. Then in late Nov...

Heading out to water the surviving oak seedlings next weekend. It'll be triple digit KS hot. Been thinking about doing 10-20 more acorn plantings this fall but wanting to try something else this time. If I can handle the heat early or late, I may spade out 2'x2' squares in the old pasture. PH is...

Glad to hear about the ragweed as I am growing some with no effort lol. I do think my quail will benefit later this fall from it and if the deer want to munch some on the way to the irrigated corn field, so be it.

Bit more rain fell today. Total of 4" in last 5 days. Its been relatively steady this summer for the first time in 3 years. Good timing as the oak seedlings are still doing well. Year one may be successful with minimal handwatering on my part. Crops in area looking great too. Thankful here.

Discovered white columbia hoodies for fishing. Blocks the uv and after spraying sawyer's on them, no bugs of any kind. Had a skin cancer cut off my ear and like having the hoodies now. Sometimes add a flop hat too, also sprayed. They also dry really fast and being poly, they seem to clean up...

Was working in the yard here at home this weekend. We live up at 6,700' elevation and takes a bit for spring to arrive. I had stuck a few bur oak acorns inside a clay soil drainage here at the house. So far I have found 9 of them up and growing. I don't have squirrels or hogs to get after them...

My neighbor was kind enough to stop by and take a few pics today for me while checking his wheat. It's turned off a bit dry now out there but the little oaks are doing okay. Actually had maybe another 6 come up and hoping to return to transplant those soon. The one pic of the caged oak makes it...

How they ever grow up is a wonder to me. So many things want to eat them. Nice pics and hope the little buggers make it.

I am planning on picking up bur oak acorns again this fall. If it is anything like last year, I'll have plenty. Just pay my UPS charges and I'll be happy to help. Personally I'd love to buy sawtooth acorns or perhaps chinkapin acorns to try if anyone has a surplus. I'll email a UPS label all...

That is great news. Finally a year where all the wildlife is catching a break hopefully too. Should be great nesting cover. Hays is back to almost normal moisture now for last 6 months as well. Had .3" earlier this week on the farm and calling for up to 1" tonight. Truly amazing what normal...

Looks like I need to get a sandpoint permit from Kansas, seems easy enough, and then can look into wind or solar powered for the tank. I kind of would like to try a solar panel as I have never done anything solar and it may be handy to learn about it.

I was perusing Whitetail Property listings and now can't locate the farm I was looking at. It had a sandpoint well hooked up with a solar panel/battery system for maintaining water in a 4' diameter horse tank. There were pics of deer, turkeys and even a bobcat drinking from it. My place has a...

I think that was 2 years ago now. My daughter killed a nice buck this last Dec and my son got a nice one the year before. I think we are having some fawn recruitment issues due to very healthy coyote and bobcat populations. The drought actually dried the river totally up last year for the first...

More wins. Found a total of 16 bur oak seedlings on this weeks visit. All have been weed whacked and caged. Also watered though we have gotten great moisture in May. More is forecast. We'll see if these little guys can make it in a hostile environment. If they do, they are the only oaks within...