Recent content by JayEC

I'm interested in trying these as well and can meet whoever wherever to pick them up- I'd be in for at least 500 rhizomes.

Thanks! I actually spent a ton of time on only 1 1/2 acres this past winter and it turned out to be just about a clear cut after removing box elder, honey locust, honey suckle, and elm. There was only a couple cherry and about 8 walnuts left! I came back and planted oaks in their place, with...

Has anyone had any problems with doing this in forest preserve areas (tax break). I know they occasionally do surveys around here and they want at least 200-300 trees per acre or something along those lines? Just curious, because that is what is holding me back from being more aggressive with...

Nice Buck!

Thursday Nov 9th East Central Muscatine county, best sit so far, sun-up to 1:00pm, saw lots of activity and 3 of my 4 mature bucks from Oct pics from 12:15-1:00, should have stayed but my toes were frozen, 7 bucks total, 2- 4 yr olds and one 7+ yr old, he didn’t respond to calls at all...

I'm a big fan of variety, so in the larger food plots I would either do alternating strips or break them into chunks. I finally have deer eating turnips now after about 3-4 years of getting them educated that they can eat the bulbs.

Now that's an upgrade! I would think you'd end up with straighter rows.

I agree with all of the previous threads, don't go below a 500 if you go the ATV route. I can only disc for about 15-20 minutes before I overheat if it is hot out, and it takes me close to 2 hours to disc, spread, cultipack a 1 acre food plot, get a cheap tractor if you can find one, if not...

Thanks! The telephone poles were free, I spent around $350 - $375, I probably spent around 12 hrs of actual work getting the telephone poles down there, secured, as level as possible, had to dig, etc. Put the 2 x4's on over a couple afternoons, built the ramps and adding the rail took about 7...

Telephone poles are the way to go if you can get them to where you need them! I had a buddy bring his skidsteer and we took them down a pretty steep bank to get to where this bridge is. It ended up being a little longer than I would have liked, just over 20' span.

I don't add anything to it, it does have a slight dried grains odor to it, so they should find it if you put it near a trail.

I use the Kent mineral 365 ADE and it goes fast, especially when the does are preparing, you can get it at any local Kent Dealer. https://kentfeeds.com/products/commercial-animals/beef/cowcalf/minerals

Your wife must be a saint! Either that or she's just as addicted as you are. I thought I had a problem when my bare-root shrubs/trees orders reached 600, but that many fruit/nut trees are way more work!

Does this stuff need full sun? Thinking about using some along an access road (North/South) through the timber or a fence row with large trees, where there is a decent amount of sunlight but not all day.

I planted 25 in Spring 2015, some of them were out of the 5' tubes by this past fall. I was a little unsure about survival but they were cheap from MDC, so, why not? I'm in East Central Iowa, west of Muscatine. Maybe they will die off when they get larger?