Keystone Krops

[Hoosierhunting]

That's mortared veneer stone. Pressure treated 5/8" plywood 4' high on a typical Pole Building frame, a layer of tyvek and a layer of black felt paper, a layer of wire, a scratch coat of mortar, then the 1 3/4" thick veneer stone are stuck to the face with mortar and pointed. This method is the same price per sq ft as nailed on stone panels, and is a better job IMO.

Yeah, I don’t like the nailed/screwed panels either.


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[Double L]

It was strange how it was just after my friend DoubleL built a big new shed for his food plot equipment that I suddenly realized that I need another shed for my habitat equipment! I guess it's called keeping up with Lenny...

Ha ha. Alan you have the bar set higher than my stumpy legs will ever get to. If I remember correctly your the one that got me to change from my 30x40 garage to “The Shed” that it is now. Lol. Your place is looking first class as all ways


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[Mennoniteman]

Clover is mostly frozen, radishes are eaten to stubs, but our winter rye is still going strong, it's the backbone of our winter deer food in the fields.

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[Jon]

I can’t disagree with rye. We think similar on what’s appropriate for no-fail plot options. I’ll stick with rye myself. Do you have any beans or corn?


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[Mennoniteman]

I can’t disagree with rye. We think similar on what’s appropriate for no-fail plot options. I’ll stick with rye myself. Do you have any beans or corn?


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Although I usually do, I don't have beans or corn this year, due to various reasons. I plan to have both next year.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Our PA muzzle loader season closes on Monday and then the deer will be safe for another year. This means it's time to work on bedding areas, trim trails, and make new food plots and access roads. Here's a new 1 acre plot in a special regulations high deer density area of Chester county that I'd been to busy to make ever since 2006. Clover and oats will get planted March 15.

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[Double L]

I was at my place last night. So much ice we could barely navigate with side by side. I was here day dreaming of your dry dirt.


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[Mennoniteman]

Stocking up on Regal Graze ladino clover seed, 25lb bag for $135 a bag at King's Agriseeds. When you buy seed where the farmers do you know that the seed is top quality, isn't outdated, and the price is going to be less than BOB.

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[Lewi B]

Just curious.
Is the clover coated and if so what %.
Thanks Always shopping for seed.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Just curious.
Is the clover coated and if so what %.
Thanks Always shopping for seed.

34% nitro-coat

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[Hoosierhunting]

Stocking up on Regal Graze ladino clover seed, 25lb bag for $135 a bag at King's Agriseeds. When you buy seed where the farmers do you know that the seed is top quality, isn't outdated, and the price is going to be less than BOB.

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That sure looks a lot fancier than our seed stores. I’m going to have to let the fellas know they’re not passing muster!


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[Mennoniteman]

Cabin fever sets in, so it's time to do a "prefab" blind build in my shop, then I'll take it apart into panels, take the panels out into the woods and reassemble them, I have the 4x6 posts set 4' into the ground, 10' high already, wrapped in painted steel. It will have a treated strairway going up, and be painted black on the inside, with windows similar to a 360 brand hunting blind. The windows are spaced for my chair and to fit specific shooting lanes. My main goal is to buy nothing, so I save potential blind building materials from the dumpster and throw them in a corner of the barn, when I have a pile I start assembling. Therefore every "scrap wood" blind is different, depending what materials I'm able to scrounge. Because this blind is made out of painted steel with double bubble insulation to keep the noise down, it may outlast my grandchildren if a tornado or a tree doesn't get it first. Eventually once it's not too muddy to get to the site I will post finished pics.

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[Mennoniteman]

Today I was watching migrating snow geese traveling through Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area on their way to Labrador and Nova Scotia. They peak at up to 200,000 birds and are always a big tourist attraction in late February.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Still working on my 6'X6' prefab blind project out of mostly scrap materials. Got the 4x6-14 posts set 3' deep in the ground with 1/2" X 12" rebar pins 4" up from the bottom for uplift protection. The brush piles that you see behind the posts is at the plot edge, providing a screen so the deer in the plot can't see a hunter entering the blind.
Assembling the tinted plexiglass windows with a wooden strip at the top to attach the paracord that will open the window.

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[dogghr]

I know we sometimes complain of technology, but aren’t those cordless tools awesome in so many ways. Used to drag a generator to the farm, no longer. Good read as always.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Got the "panel blind build" half finished, need trim, railings, windows, carpet, black paint on the inside yet, and an easy chair of course.
The biggest problem is that it's too muddy to get in right now. I drove back and quickly threw up the panels, then had to get out as the sun started thawing the frozen mud.

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[Mennoniteman]

BALANCING C&N. Like the lady at the fair who always wins the prize for the best preserves, she has a few tricks up her sleeve.
This is an important step in keeping a ladino clover field going perpetually. Before and after pictures on March 13 in zone 6b; Notill drilling spring oats and tillage radishes into an existing ladino clover stand to add longterm carbon residue to feed the clover and use up excess nitrogen produced in a clover monoculture. The damage to the existing clover is very negligible, and bin run oats are way cheaper than fertilizer for the same results, also gives allopathic grass control, and, as an added bonus the process is 100% organic.
Zoom in and notice the straw and residue from prior soil improvements. This straw residue does so much for so many things, such as frost proofing, and drought proofing, the list could just go on and on.

 

[dogghr]

Its too simple, the naysayers won't bite. Same can be done without that nice equipment tho, just sayin. Looks great.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Its too simple, the naysayers won't bite. Same can be done without that nice equipment tho, just sayin. Looks great.

I grew up poor, and already feel guilty having that nice equipment that I can't justify and don't deserve. But you are right on the money. Guys can seed grains into clover by broadcasting the seed by hand while walking the field, and get the same results. Just remember to increase your seeding rates by about double if using that method.

 

[MarkDarvin]

BALANCING C&N. Like the lady at the fair who always wins the prize for the best preserves, she has a few tricks up her sleeve.
This is an important step in keeping a ladino clover field going perpetually. Before and after pictures on March 13 in zone 6b; Notill drilling spring oats and tillage radishes into an existing ladino clover stand to add longterm carbon residue to feed the clover and use up excess nitrogen produced in a clover monoculture. The damage to the existing clover is very negligible, and bin run oats are way cheaper than fertilizer for the same results, also gives allopathic grass control, and, as an added bonus the process is 100% organic.
Zoom in and notice the straw and residue from prior soil improvements. This straw residue does so much for so many things, such as frost proofing, and drought proofing, the list could just go on and on.

Shame a guy can't click like x100. You're preaching my gospel man.

Now throw some flax and chicory into that drill as well, and diversify your grains with some barley, spring wheat, and split maturity oats.

Green cover has some fantastic info in their book this year around cold-kill temps for cover crop species. I'm watching the weather closely to see when it's gonna be safe by me to let the barley fly this spring.