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Post by Sandbur on May 5, 2019 8:20:18 GMT -6
Stu, is that creek bottom filling in pretty good? No, the RCG still dominates in some sections. Now that you're retired you should come on over and take another walk here. Maybe in a couple weeks when the apples are blooming  My only luck in RC has been spruce less than knee high with a rootball about the size of a five gallon pail. Plant in the RC and expect 50% to take. Also some luck with my attempt at a tennis racket bedding area in the RC. Now, spray, spray, heavy black plastic about six foot wide and willow cuttings. Best to just leave the plastic in place for years or forever.  |
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Post by smsmith on May 5, 2019 8:51:44 GMT -6
No, the RCG still dominates in some sections. Now that you're retired you should come on over and take another walk here. Maybe in a couple weeks when the apples are blooming My only luck in RC has been spruce less than knee high with a rootball about the size of a five gallon pail. Plant in the RC and expect 50% to take. Also some luck with my attempt at a tennis racket bedding area in the RC. Now, spray, spray, heavy black plastic about six foot wide and willow cuttings. Best to just leave the plastic in place for years or forever. The area where I planted the tamaracks yesterday had old lumber tarps laying on it for 2 years. I pulled the tarps off and re-located them to an adjacent area for future tamarack plantings. It will probably fill in with thistles this year, then the RCG will return I'm sure. Hopefully the tamaracks will have a start by then. I think the "best" way to beat RCG is with shade. Get hybrid poplars planted and let them shade out the RCG. I don't want thousands of hybrid poplars though. |
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Post by smsmith on May 5, 2019 8:58:30 GMT -6
No, the RCG still dominates in some sections. Now that you're retired you should come on over and take another walk here. Maybe in a couple weeks when the apples are blooming Yup, I sure would like too. I am anxiously waiting to see what trees I might get my first blossom/ apple crop from. Winter red flesh and Whitney are two new hopefuls. I also got a couple of lakes I want to check out over in Hardwoods neck of the woods. I might need you for a guide. Bob and I were talking yesterday about fishing. We each have boats, live within a 15-20 minute drive of a great number of lakes...and rarely if ever go fishing. |
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Post by nhmountains on May 5, 2019 11:36:58 GMT -6
Any photos of the young tamaracks Stu? I’ve got one huge tamarack on the new property we found last winter but, I haven’t looked for smaller ones. Do they like a tag alder like area? Tamaracks do ok in a tag alder area, but I don’t think young tamaracks can compete well with mature tag alders. Kind of like planted spruce in those areas. You need to ‘release’ the spruce a few times from competing tags for the first ten years or so. I chipped up some tag alder yesterday and the chips stunk pretty bad compared to other trees. That large tamarack must be 100 years old. I think the tag alders moved in when they updated the nearby side road 15 years ago and changed the drainage a little. I‘ll look for more this summer once they get their needles. |
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Post by nhmountains on May 5, 2019 11:40:46 GMT -6
No, the RCG still dominates in some sections. Now that you're retired you should come on over and take another walk here. Maybe in a couple weeks when the apples are blooming My only luck in RC has been spruce less than knee high with a rootball about the size of a five gallon pail. Plant in the RC and expect 50% to take. Also some luck with my attempt at a tennis racket bedding area in the RC. Now, spray, spray, heavy black plastic about six foot wide and willow cuttings. Best to just leave the plastic in place for years or forever. How about a bale of hay with some soil on top to make an island on top of the canary grass?? That would give them a head start for a few years. |
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Post by terrifictom on May 6, 2019 5:14:26 GMT -6
Any photos of the young tamaracks Stu? I’ve got one huge tamarack on the new property we found last winter but, I haven’t looked for smaller ones. Do they like a tag alder like area? I didn't take any photos, sorry. Yes, in my part of the swamp around the lake, tamaracks and tag alders grow in similar areas. I do have tags in the creek bottom, but as I stated before...no tamaracks there (except those I planted yesterday). Tamaracks are really pretty in the fall  Got to agree with you Stu on tamaracks looking pretty in fall. They really look cool in spring when the start growing their new needles too. |
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Post by jbird on May 6, 2019 11:06:41 GMT -6
I planted my order of 100 trees and shrubs from MDC yesterday with a shovel as well....man what a pain in the ass! Oh well, as long as they do well...it will be worth it. I am trying to add diversity with shrubs on my place...persimmons, black haw, spice bush, arrowwood, buttonbush, ninebark, nannyberry, all sorts of shit! I hope I get a few of each to grow and the birds and mother nature do the rest. If it works out I may try another area and do the same with other varieties next year. The more I do this and the older I get - I think I like natural foods vs annual food plots.
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Post by batman on May 6, 2019 14:02:05 GMT -6
- I think I like natural foods vs annual food plots. Natural food is great until the neighbor starts plotting. Deer like food plots. |
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Post by jbird on May 6, 2019 14:28:54 GMT -6
- I think I like natural foods vs annual food plots. Natural food is great until the neighbor starts plotting. Deer like food plots. I agree they do. However when I have "foodplots" to the point that I am tilling grains under every year in May.... I think that's a sign I can cut back. I won't pull the plug entirely...just trying to add some diversity in an area where the current plan was being under-utilized. |
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