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Post by Catscratch on Sept 3, 2017 8:15:27 GMT -6
Holy crap your place looks nice! So far, apples like that are only a dream for me. Love it!
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Post by Foggy on Sept 3, 2017 11:16:55 GMT -6
Great looking place SC! Nice plots and trees.
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Post by nhmountains on Sept 4, 2017 5:23:41 GMT -6
I'm glad we don't have gophers here in NH. Do they come out of holes and feed and sun themselves like woodchucks?
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 4, 2017 9:14:00 GMT -6
I'm glad we don't have gophers here in NH. Do they come out of holes and feed and sun themselves like woodchucks? We have two different critters called gophers. The 13 striped ground squirrel (Mn Gopher mascot) will come out and sun itself. Pocket gophers live totally underground. They do the most damage. I can't understand why we are blessed with them and others are not.
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Post by smallchunk on Sept 5, 2017 17:49:42 GMT -6
What art said 👆🏼. I ran down to the farm yesterday before the rain. Broadcasted some rye into the plot of beans, hopefully it can take foot now and take off when the leaves turn brown and fall off. I also spread fert out there for the rye and the little bit of brassica that is out there. I also got my brassica/rye plot fertilized too. It needed both the rain and the fertilizer that it got, it was turning a little yellow and the big leaves were withering a bit! Here is the bag of fert that I ended up using. My local place never has what I want (in this case urea) and they are always more spendy than the place I usually use in north branch, but it works in a pinch!
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Post by smallchunk on Sept 5, 2017 17:52:41 GMT -6
I believe this is a great fertilizer to use for top dress on sandy soils that are low in sulfur like mine though, correct SD?
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 6, 2017 5:41:48 GMT -6
Looks good to me. I like that ratio of N to S.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 6, 2017 7:24:07 GMT -6
I think pocket gophers can become bait shy after you've killed a bunch of their buddies. I've taken out a lot with strychnine laced grain the last couple years, but it seems like the last month or so they aren't "taking the bait". Maybe it's just a bad batch of poison grain
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 7, 2017 6:11:14 GMT -6
What art said 👆🏼. I ran down to the farm yesterday before the rain. Broadcasted some rye into the plot of beans, hopefully it can take foot now and take off when the leaves turn brown and fall off. I also spread fert out there for the rye and the little bit of brassica that is out there. I also got my brassica/rye plot fertilized too. It needed both the rain and the fertilizer that it got, it was turning a little yellow and the big leaves were withering a bit! Here is the bag of fert that I ended up using. My local place never has what I want (in this case urea) and they are always more spendy than the place I usually use in north branch, but it works in a pinch! What does this run per bag? I think that mix would be great for me.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 7, 2017 7:30:10 GMT -6
^ That looks like the common mix sold by Bjerga's Farm Store in Pine River. They usually keep it on hand.....but you never know how much they will have. They have a fertilizer plant in Motley....called "Motley Maid". The price seems to vary too.....but they usually are not cheap. I wish I had more purchase options.
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Post by smallchunk on Sept 7, 2017 16:20:26 GMT -6
Crud, I was hoping nobody would ask. I think it was like $27?!
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Post by smallchunk on Sept 10, 2017 9:36:01 GMT -6
Ran down to the farm to get a stand up and venture way back to check a trail cam. Didn't get the stand up AND the camera I set up way back in about a month ago I didn't turn on. I was less than pleased with myself after this trip. Grandma had me pick up all of the "good apples" on the ground so that she could make apple sauce. Quite a few apples on the ground and very few deer in there scooping them up. Maybe too much food available right now with acorns falling all over? Ended up leaving with a container of fresh apple sauce from grandma, score. The brassica plot keeps on growing. Damn does this tilled sand turn to powder if we don't get rain. I need to think twice about working the ground again!
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Post by nhmountains on Sept 16, 2017 14:56:28 GMT -6
SC,
Any ideas on what variety grandmas apples are?
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Post by smallchunk on Sept 16, 2017 23:15:48 GMT -6
NH, I believe they are Macintosh-Paula Reds. They start dropping around the beginning of September and will continue until October if my family leaves them hang. Here are a few visitors to the trees. I don't really get it, this last week I only had deer visit the trees on one morning, but there were three different groups that came through that same morning. The buck, a doe and her two fawns and than the two do. I don't get how they aren't there to pluck up the 30-40 apples on the ground every night?! My girlfriend and I picking the apples up off the ground that were good enough for grandma to make apple sauce. My aunt raiding the ground for drops. You can notice in this pic that the orchard grass is dying. I sprayed it like two weeks ago and spread rye and clover in there today. The best buck I have on the farm swung in for a bite! A couple of doe's enjoying
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Post by smallchunk on Oct 1, 2017 22:10:33 GMT -6
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