God's Little Acre Land Tour

I love your property and the work you've done. I'm familiar with the st Lawrence between Clayton and Blind Bay - Do you have the Big Ships come right on by where you are? I bet those soils are a bit thin that you have to work with, but I like the color I see! Looks like you ave a lot of water to contend with much of the year but probably not this summer! When you dug your berm, does it fill with water in the fall or were you able to make it so that water drained away?
 
farmhunter said:
I love your property and the work you've done. I'm familiar with the st Lawrence between Clayton and Blind Bay - Do you have the Big Ships come right on by where you are? I bet those soils are a bit thin that you have to work with, but I like the color I see! Looks like you ave a lot of water to contend with much of the year but probably not this summer! When you dug your berm, does it fill with water in the fall or were you able to make it so that water drained away?
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Thanks for your kind words. I can hear the ships, but can only see them when the trees are bare. The soils aren't too thin, lots of clay. The berm field is low, so I do get some water between the berms. I have a trench through it the water will hopefully flow through. If not, that's why I wear boots
 
Very nice. Wish you send some rain our way. Even our heavy dews are insufficient to do much more than get modestly slow germination.
 
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I would imagine the farmer will be here for his beans in the next couple of weeks.....except for the area I flagged for him to leave
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The Egyptian wheat and sorghum screen is doing well.

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Switchgrass to the left, goldenrod and willow bushes to right. I love how you never know when a deer will materialize.

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I planted a few pumpkins this year for the first time. Should I break these open, or let the deer do it?

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My turnips have never been hit this early. One plot in particular is getting hammered.
 
I'd let those pumpkins lay till the 1st frost then break them open. A few years ago, I threw pumpkins out back from our home in a sudvisiion and they broke up when they hit the ground. I had deer eating them within 2 days! Couldn't believe how many deer came and munched on those pumpkins. Considered planting them on the farm but never have. Be interesting to see what happens to yours.
 
Amazing how far along everything you have planted is. Shoot we planted some plots in August that failed completely due to drought and some more in Early September that can't get ahead of the critters. Looks like I need to put more acreage into plots this next year.

I suppose you have already had frost?
 
OkieKubota said:
Amazing how far along everything you have planted is. Shoot we planted some plots in August that failed completely due to drought and some more in Early September that can't get ahead of the critters. Looks like I need to put more acreage into plots this next year.

I suppose you have already had frost?
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Thanks Okie. We got lucky......less than 50 miles from here they've had VERY little rain all year. We had frost predicted here for a couple nights when I was traveling. I believe we did get hit.
 
Your plots look wonderful Tom. And the screening is huge also. I don't take great crops for granted anymore; I'm in the fifty miles away from you dry zone.
 
outdoorstom said:
That stinks, Dave. Were you able to grow anything at all?
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Hope you are well Tom and finding a shed or two or more on your property. We had turnips barely larger than golf balls;the deer went thru them by January 15. Dennis had planted triticale, barley and rye in August in all of the rented fields. It grew to a ft. or more and then in January they turned to eating it daily. It carried them thru well along with all of the apples of course. They ate some of all of it but the triticale was the star.
 
Pumpkins: Do you feel like they were a good use of plot space given the net production? How did attraction compare to fall grains or brassicas? I'm a big fan of putting out a buffet (clovers, chicory, LC brassicas, LC grains, rutabagas/Winfred brassicas, corn/beans). I'm trying to understand if it would be worth cutting back on any of the above.
 
Chainsaw said:
Hope you are well Tom and finding a shed or two or more on your property. We had turnips barely larger than golf balls;the deer went thru them by January 15. Dennis had planted triticale, barley and rye in August in all of the rented fields. It grew to a ft. or more and then in January they turned to eating it daily. It carried them thru well along with all of the apples of course. They ate some of all of it but the triticale was the star.
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No shed hunting here, Dave. We've been in Florida since Dec 19th. Glad to hear the deer had enough feed. I think you guys had a relatively mild winter, didn't you?
 
Elkaddict said:
Pumpkins: Do you feel like they were a good use of plot space given the net production? How did attraction compare to fall grains or brassicas? I'm a big fan of putting out a buffet (clovers, chicory, LC brassicas, LC grains, rutabagas/Winfred brassicas, corn/beans). I'm trying to understand if it would be worth cutting back on any of the above.
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I plan on planting more pumpkins this year. They do take up a lot space so I'm going to expand my plot to make room for them. I intentionally never touched them, and the deer broke them up themselves.
 
outdoorstom said:
No shed hunting here, Dave. We've been in Florida since Dec 19th. Glad to hear the deer had enough feed. I think you guys had a relatively mild winter, didn't you?
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Hi Tom, Yes we have had an easy winter with some of the coldest part being the last couple of weeks. We have been snowless for a while now and the deer are looking very good. I thought this might be around the time you would be back from Florida but I forget that usually right now we are still plowing snow regularly. This is the first year I can remember that we can search for sheds this time of year with there being no snow at all left in the woods.
 
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