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Post by broomebuck on May 21, 2009 15:32:51 GMT -5
a 3/4 acre field with a 1 gallon hand sprayer i just did i really sucked OK i feel better now i had to some one how it really was not fun
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Post by whyohe on May 21, 2009 15:37:53 GMT -5
YOU MUST HAVE BEEN BOARD!!!!! ;D
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Post by petev on May 21, 2009 17:27:40 GMT -5
Now, a brush hog is fun!
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Post by northny on May 21, 2009 20:09:08 GMT -5
Wow! I hate having to do three one acre plots, but I have a 25 gallon sprayer on the back of a UTV! You are dedicated. But I bet it will be worth it when the field comes up in what you plant, and is not dominated by weeds!
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Post by broomebuck on May 22, 2009 6:15:21 GMT -5
i going to put an apple orchard in it
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Post by thelefthand on May 23, 2009 7:53:19 GMT -5
I hope you just spot sprayed it right where you were going to plant the trees. Even that would suck, but not as bad as spraying the whole darn thing.
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Post by mike3132 on May 24, 2009 20:40:09 GMT -5
You should invest in some kind of mechanical sprayer cause you are going to need it to spray your fruit trees! mike
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Post by ozark on May 24, 2009 20:56:11 GMT -5
We have a retired Navy veteran that has a cabin on our property and does a lot of work making the land more attractive for wildlife. Especially deer. One thing he has done is create a weed patch. It is about an acre plot that he bushogs and applies fertalize to. All that grows there are native weeds and grasses. It is more popular with the deer than any crops we have tried. They spend a lot of time in the weed patch. He has taken two nice ten pointers from that weed patch. It may help that it is near the river and during flood stages water sometimes flows over it. We have found that weeds are not all that bad and easy to maintain.
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Post by boarhog on May 24, 2009 22:53:57 GMT -5
Apples are hard to maintain. One of the worst. Apples need pruning every year, and sprayed for fungus, all sorts of deseases, and bugs. Wild Crabapple might require less tending, but I don't know if they attract deer as well as Red Delicious. I have a Golden Delicious, and a Red Delicious in my yard, but I think I might have planted something else if I had known what has to be done. Even if you work your backside off keeping the trees healthy, and you don't get your blooms wiped out by a late frost, squirrels will wipe out your crop before the apples are ripe enough for humans. The only year I've actually gotten to eat an apple off of my trees was about 3 years ago. That year, I declared war on squirrels, and shot well over 40 out of my yard. There are only so many ways to cook squirrel!
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Post by broomebuck on May 25, 2009 8:56:01 GMT -5
this is the kind of stuff that keeps me going i love working out side,
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Post by northny on May 25, 2009 9:31:43 GMT -5
Just to second Ozark's opinion on weeds (or native vegetiation). Around our food plots we typically leave about 10 to 15 yards of native growth (weeds, grass, what ever) that we brush hog ocassionally, then about another 5 yards or so of "brush' that we only cut every three of four years. The deer do like the variety of browse, and will spend time in all three areas.
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Post by jims on May 25, 2009 15:48:07 GMT -5
If I do not planted soon it will all be native vegetation. Hopefully in the next two weeks.
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Post by mike3132 on May 25, 2009 19:26:42 GMT -5
Ozark,
I suspect the deer are using the weed patch more for cover than food. Here in Indiana my hunting property is all in CRP and woods. Most of the time the deer bed down in the tall weeds and feed in the food plots that I plant or jump the fence and eat in the corn or soybeans fields. Mike
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