Thank you everyone. Life is still great!! Daily deer parade thru apples will kick in a few minutes, a great start to each morning. (hope my words match my thoughts).
Over due to post for the Deer Habitat and Deer Hunter forum threads.
But LIFE comes first, even before habitat plans. A ride from Samaritan Hospital via Lewis County Transport to Albany Med proved that. The new focus: a Glioma brain tumor in the parietal region which has affected (hopefully...
Tom, that is a major home run location for sure. It is worthy of saving for the best day of the year for a dawn to dark watch. Spots like that are very exciting.
Our most deer producing stand ever sits twenty-two feet high in a hickory tree. We have taken well over 75 bow-killed deer from this stand including some of our better bucks. "High on the Hickory" is a morning stand that the deer visit for the hickory nuts after they leave the apple trees and...
After having released over two thousand apple trees I can say that it was well worth the effort. However every apple tree released was different; some responded with great growth within one year while others responded but slowly.
Those are some hard earned trees. Good luck with them and hope they give you many years of enjoyment. Our planted apple trees were the same way except it may even have been longer to see our first apples. And actually the first planting was a complete bust, we replanted them all after installing...
Oddly I didn't notice any beechnuts. It was just a high traffic place. At my property it was an edge among a cutover where all marketable trees were cut but all beech were left and it was near a drainage.. The result was an open understory among blackberries thick enough to make people travel...
My camera captures last year confirmed the value of Beech, at least last year. Cameras at apples were the most productive but a single camera was in an area of beech trees and it captured a significant amount of regular daytime mature buck activity. Also check out Rusty's video's of Buck...
Great camera work Elk. The extremes are drastic for sure. One doe has chosen our "lawn" to hide her fawn so we have seen her visiting for a few days-really great. On my way to our cottage yesterday AM saw a doe standing bewildered and concerned looking in a just recently mowed hay field. Three...
Early fruit sets wonderful to see. Waiting ten years to see fruit as “in the old days” just wasn’t much fun. Drop Tines here saw a few fruits their first year here as well despite drought like conditions during summer.
That is depressing George. Of course there are variations in Dolgo seedlings. To start with is the simple size of the seedling; ie did it start out as a 7/16 inch seedling or a 1/8 inch seedling? That alone could make a huge difference. Were they true Dolgo seedlings that is grafted Dolgo...
Here apple trees are not free. Fencing @ $8 per tree, screening @ $1.24 and weed mats @ ?$1 makes free not such a big deal. Seeds from Dolgo trees in the average landowner orchard are only 50% Dolgo. The other half is unknown. I would prefer to purchase Dolgo Root stock over harvesting seeds as...