Jethro
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Once upon a time, on a forum long since gone, I knew a bunch of you guys. I think I went by the name Jethro back then, but not sure. I had a little spot in the woods where I grew trees from acorns, planted food plots, and did some hinging and so forth. I bow hunted in there and had lots of fun. But life kind of got in the way. We had a new baby girl about the time my boys started going deep in HS football playoffs. Then the 2011-13 drought hit and I couldn't keep plots or trees alive. The neighbors came in to redo the fence line and their dozer operator dozed out a bunch of my little trees. I got burned out trying to do too many things at once and basically let my little spot in the woods go to seed.
Well, my daughter is old enough to hunt now (she killed her first doe 3 years ago), and my oldest son is really starting to get into bow hunting. They both want to revive the hidey hole in the woods to the way it once was with planted trails and food plots, all that kind of thing. We have been working this spring and summer opening roads back up from fallen trees, putting tree stands and box blinds up, things like that. Last week when my son was down visiting we got out in the old overgrown food plot and got all the fallen trees and branches out of it where I could drive through it and spray. I got the old 4-wheeler out and cleaned the carb and got the sprayer all working again so I could start burning down weeds in preparation for fall plots.
Johnson grass and marigolds are horrible out there. I flat out hate marigolds when they go to seed. Attacking them with extreme prejudice is my top priority at this point. Saturday morning I went out and started burning things down. It took 3 tanks of spray to hit all the roads, trails, and the food plot with lead-ins to it. I think I got everything pretty good though. We are all pretty excited about it.
There are 2' tall stumps out in those weeds that you can't see, that should give some idea how bad it was in there. There was Johnson grass taller than my head as I was spraying. Good news is those old stumps are rotted enough now I think we can push them out pretty easy next spring. That will make the plotting much easier. We will just run a simple throw and spray (or mow) plot this fall and focus on cleaning up weeds and such. It will probably be mainly rye and brassicas, maybe some AWP.
Good to be back around you guys again, look forward to sharing pics and info.
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Well, my daughter is old enough to hunt now (she killed her first doe 3 years ago), and my oldest son is really starting to get into bow hunting. They both want to revive the hidey hole in the woods to the way it once was with planted trails and food plots, all that kind of thing. We have been working this spring and summer opening roads back up from fallen trees, putting tree stands and box blinds up, things like that. Last week when my son was down visiting we got out in the old overgrown food plot and got all the fallen trees and branches out of it where I could drive through it and spray. I got the old 4-wheeler out and cleaned the carb and got the sprayer all working again so I could start burning down weeds in preparation for fall plots.
Johnson grass and marigolds are horrible out there. I flat out hate marigolds when they go to seed. Attacking them with extreme prejudice is my top priority at this point. Saturday morning I went out and started burning things down. It took 3 tanks of spray to hit all the roads, trails, and the food plot with lead-ins to it. I think I got everything pretty good though. We are all pretty excited about it.
There are 2' tall stumps out in those weeds that you can't see, that should give some idea how bad it was in there. There was Johnson grass taller than my head as I was spraying. Good news is those old stumps are rotted enough now I think we can push them out pretty easy next spring. That will make the plotting much easier. We will just run a simple throw and spray (or mow) plot this fall and focus on cleaning up weeds and such. It will probably be mainly rye and brassicas, maybe some AWP.
Good to be back around you guys again, look forward to sharing pics and info.
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