Recent content by MR56

The recommendation here in Minnesota to protect white pine seedlings is just a bud cap in winter to protect the buds of the leader. We used 3x5 index cards folded and stapled over the end/top of the leader in the fall. The 'cap' is held in place by catching some of the needles while stapling...

Oust is now the preferred tank mix w/ gly for established switch? In past posts there's been recommendations for Plateau/Panoramic w/ gly. I've got Panoramic on hand and I've got a switch plot I established last year, this will be it's second season, should I bite the bullet and buy some Oust...

We tilled a ladino plot this spring and drilled RR beans to help clean up weeds and rotate the crop. Yup, the deer keep em' mowed down to 6". We then plant Dbltree's mixes on schedule half and half which gets us into the rotation. The short beans bounce right back after we cultipack the...

SFM 75 label says 'DO NOT use any equipment (pumps, booms, tanks,etc) that has been used to mix or spray SFM 75 for applications on ornamentals or CROPS. This is critical in that low rates of SFM 75 can severely injure or kill most crops.' Anybody have any issues with residual crop injury...

December frost seed?? The advice here is to frost seed mid winter, late January thru March, why not now before snow fall? I'm located north central MN where I may have significant snow on the ground during that time period and I'll be laid up or atleast moving slower with a new hip. So what is...

no till brassicas? So is 'no-tilling' brassicas anything more than broadcasting the small seed into gly killed berseem? We could run the cultipacker over it? The gly application should not affect the seed at all? Even if I spray and plant in the same day? Should we be concerned...

Couple questions with your rye/brassica strip rotation. Radish is a brassica? and if we plant it with the rye are we not planting brassica after brassica on the same strip? And we know from experience it's easy to over plant turnips in particular and so we question the added 5# of radish...