lakngolf
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Anybody in the area working on an ark?
Quapaw Meadows (My 160 Acres)...
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dogdoc
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No, but I do have a bass boat and a kayak. Kids get the kayak though.
Triple C
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Todd...I'm with Merle. Great back up on the turkey hunt! Can't wait till I can put a pond in on our place that's for fishing rather than beavers. There was a time when I loved nothing more than pond jumping catching bass. Hope to do it again before too long. Better too much rain than not enough!
lakngolf
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Dont say that too loud in south carolina!
Native Hunter
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Todd, when I checked today, I had 3 trees that I topworked with your scions that were starting to leaf out.
dogdoc
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Those look Great NH. Went to the farm today and my persimmon grafts I did 3 weeks ago are just now starting to leaf out. Good job on the grafting success.Todd, when I checked today, I had 3 trees that I topworked with your scions that were starting to leaf out.
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dogdoc
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Off work today so headed out just to look around. We have been getting plenty of rain. All ponds are full and ground is very saturated. Food plots are enjoying the water.
Eagle Bean plot #1 is really looking great. This is about the 6th year that I have been planting Eagle on this particular plot. So it has been sprayed every year once the beans are up and running so it is fairly clean. Only invasion right now is Johnson Grass and I just need the ground to dry out a bit to get it sprayed.
The deer are enjoying the young beans alsol
Eagle Bean plot #1 is really looking great. This is about the 6th year that I have been planting Eagle on this particular plot. So it has been sprayed every year once the beans are up and running so it is fairly clean. Only invasion right now is Johnson Grass and I just need the ground to dry out a bit to get it sprayed.
The deer are enjoying the young beans alsol
dogdoc
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Eagle Bean Plot #2 is not fairing quite as well. This plot gets a little more deer pressure, turkey pressure, and weed pressure. I planted this plot for the first time last year with cowpeas and sunflowers. The weeds took over so this year I decided to go with a round up ready crop. I just need some dry weather to spray it. This is my BBJ plot.
My Boggy Plot of clover and chicory is doing great. Few weeds but all in all very pleased. This will be this plots 2nd spring as a perennial plot of white clover, red clover, and chicory. Cam pics show deer in this plot all night long and you can't even tell there is any browsing pressure.
Starting to see a little bone on top
Does are fat and still pregnant but shouldn't be long before they start dropping. Did have an old friend show back up. He is very sporadic now that I don't keep any corn feeders going. I need to get the traps set and see if I can catch him. I don't think I have ever seen a boar with a snout that long. Big pig!
Meant to take some pics of my persimmon and pecan grafts but thunderstorms rolled in so I high tailed it back to the truck.
God Bless and God Bless America
todd
My Boggy Plot of clover and chicory is doing great. Few weeds but all in all very pleased. This will be this plots 2nd spring as a perennial plot of white clover, red clover, and chicory. Cam pics show deer in this plot all night long and you can't even tell there is any browsing pressure.
Starting to see a little bone on top
Does are fat and still pregnant but shouldn't be long before they start dropping. Did have an old friend show back up. He is very sporadic now that I don't keep any corn feeders going. I need to get the traps set and see if I can catch him. I don't think I have ever seen a boar with a snout that long. Big pig!
Meant to take some pics of my persimmon and pecan grafts but thunderstorms rolled in so I high tailed it back to the truck.
God Bless and God Bless America
todd
Your plots look great and with the rains are doing well! Deer should be well fed throughout the summer. Does that hog root in your plots any? The boar using our place has never rooted in ours...
How much rain have you gotten in this last bout...over the past 30 hours we have gotten over 4"...flooding again over this way...
How much rain have you gotten in this last bout...over the past 30 hours we have gotten over 4"...flooding again over this way...
dogghr
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Really liked the chicory plot. It is not the first go to for my deer but they do browse it heavy. WC and alfalfa is their fav plot food. But let those chicory blooms start and they are on it late summer when dry weather comes on. Glad you guys have rain but geez, nothing is within normal limits in that country. Feast or famine as they say.
dogdoc
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2.2" total since Thursday evening.
dogdoc
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I hear ya. He hasn't caused any damage yet. Armadillos cause more damage than anything.
dogdoc
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Went out to farm today to do some mowing. First wanted to mow my old fescue field. Last year I did not mow and just let it go feral and was loaded with thistle and fennel. While the fennel did provide a lot of thick jungle like cover I am wanted to get more native warm season grasses. The thistle was getting so thick and up to 4 foot tall and some starting to flower so mowed the entire field. Probably would have been better to spray some 2-4D but there is also a lot of good wildflowers and other good forbes. Here are pics after mowing.
I am getting some nice clumps of switch grass throughout the field so I spared mowing the switch grass. Don't really know if it would hurt it or not but it sure is pretty with a mowed field and clumps of the tall grass.
I am getting some nice clumps of switch grass throughout the field so I spared mowing the switch grass. Don't really know if it would hurt it or not but it sure is pretty with a mowed field and clumps of the tall grass.
dogdoc
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I also decided to mow about 1/3 of my chicory/clover plot. With all the rain and the clover not under any stress I thought it would be a good time. I wanted to get some new young tender shoots for the deer. I think I will mow it in strips because there are so many pollinators using the chicory and clover I want to keep plenty of flowers also.
dogdoc
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Filled up the back pack sprayer with some Poast Plus and crop oil and sprayed some Johnson Grass around a small persimmon orchard and also around several apple trees. Grass herbicides are slow to work so I'll post another pic to see how the Poast did on the Johnson Grass.
A pecan graft I did 3 years ago. I think it is a Pawnee variety pecan--grafted to a native pecan.
Persimmon grafts coming to life. Fish---here is your Pop's tree.
A pecan graft I did 3 years ago. I think it is a Pawnee variety pecan--grafted to a native pecan.
Persimmon grafts coming to life. Fish---here is your Pop's tree.
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